I-Corps: Wearable Medical Device for Menopause Management

I-Corps：用于更年期管理的可穿戴医疗设备

• 批准号: 1849927
• 负责人: Jeffrey Garanich
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849927&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Wearable; Medical; Device; Menopause

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project (NSF Lineage: Award Number 1644664) is borne from the development of a customizable symptom management tool to support women experiencing menopause. The negative perception of menopause causes symptom embarrassment which leads to deficiencies in health literacy and inefficient symptom management. This project's technology, a wearable-app system, addresses this inefficiency by providing the means to inform and support women throughout menopause. The proposed I-Corps program explores commercialization opportunities within the project's initial application focus of menopause symptom management and also investigates the potential of applications in the cancer symptom management and data sales markets. With respect to the latter, the prospective technology will gather an abundance of data that may be used to streamline biotechnology and pharmaceutical product development. Through adoption of this technology, women will be able to better communicate their symptoms to a more aware and understanding society. This opens the door to future innovations in additional areas of healthcare that are traditionally not openly discussed.This I-Corps project is based on the premise that leveraging personal mobile devices and user data may create disruptive innovation in the healthcare space. The project's technology utilizes multiple sensors to collect personalized data which is used to provide the user with multiple ways to optimize management of her menopause symptoms, with the goal of minimizing their negative impact on her daily routine. Progress on the project to date includes development of an alpha prototype that has been used to test the feasibility of both hardware and software components. Current areas of focus include optimization of the physical design and data acquisition capability. The I-Corps process will allow us to improve our understanding of our customers? unmet needs and the ability of our technology to address them. This will guide the development of our technology, including optimization for manufacturing and feature enhancement, to address needs found in customer discovery and accelerate introduction of a useful product to market.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该 I-Corps 项目（NSF Lineage：奖项编号 1644664）的更广泛影响/商业潜力源自开发可定制的症状管理工具，以支持经历更年期的女性。对更年期的负面认知会导致症状尴尬，从而导致健康素养不足和症状管理效率低下。 该项目的技术是一个可穿戴应用程序系统，通过提供在整个更年期为女性提供信息和支持的方法来解决这种效率低下的问题。拟议的 I-Corps 计划探索了该项目最初应用重点（更年期症状管理）内的商业化机会，并调查了其在癌症症状管理和数据销售市场中的应用潜力。对于后者，前瞻性技术将收集大量数据，可用于简化生物技术和药品开发。通过采用这项技术，女性将能够更好地向更加了解和理解的社会传达她们的症状。这为传统上不公开讨论的其他医疗保健领域的未来创新打开了大门。I-Corps 项目的前提是利用个人移动设备和用户数据可能会在医疗保健领域创造颠覆性创新。该项目的技术利用多个传感器收集个性化数据，为用户提供多种方法来优化更年期症状的管理，目标是最大限度地减少其对日常生活的负面影响。迄今为止，该项目的进展包括开发阿尔法原型，该原型已用于测试硬件和软件组件的可行性。当前的重点领域包括物理设计和数据采集能力的优化。 I-Corps 流程将使我们能够增进对客户的了解？未满足的需求以及我们的技术解决这些需求的能力。这将指导我们的技术开发，包括制造优化和功能增强，以满足客户发现中的需求，并加速将有用的产品推向市场。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。