SBIR Phase II: Point-of-Care Patient Photography Integrated with Medical Imaging

SBIR 第二阶段：与医学成像集成的护理点患者摄影

• 批准号: 1853142
• 负责人: Carson Wick
• 金额: $ 74.99万
• 依托单位: Camerad Technologies, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1853142&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Point; Care

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is the widespread adoption of an efficient and accessible technology to integrate patient photographs with radiology images to improve patient safety, increase healthcare efficiency, and reconnect radiologists with their patients. A successful commercialization outcome is this adoption leading to direct cost-savings in healthcare by improving patient safety and hospital quality; even a 10% improvement in radiologists' efficiency leads to healthcare savings of ~$900 million. The broader impact of this novel technology is that it can provide patient authentication for the digital data being generated by hundreds of new digital medical devices. Any of this digital data could end up in the wrong patient's medical record and authentication is crucial. Rapid advances in smart, telehealth systems present the danger that patients can turn into mere data, but these photographs can return the interpreting physician's focus to the patient, leading to improved outcomes through patient-centered care. The technology achieves this by allowing doctors to connect with the patient as a person before diving deep and exploring data at anatomic, physiologic and molecular levels.This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will seamlessly and securely integrate a radiology patient identification system to improve patient safety, by avoiding preventable errors, and enhance throughput. This transformative approach overcomes the failure of existing patient identification methods while harnessing the power of an embedded camera system to improve patient care. Technology to automatically and simultaneously obtain and embed audio and video data of the patient during X-ray and CT acquisition will be developed under this award. Specifically, the following objectives will be completed: 1) develop a mature software framework for rapid system scalability to a large number of hospitals, 2) expand the system to CT scanners and stationary X-ray machines, 3) improve image quality by adding infrared stereoscopic image capture, to ensure photographs add value even when obtained in low light settings, 4) enhancing the cameras with video and audio capabilities, which will improve patient identification, while simultaneously gathering rich clinical information, and 5) refine the triggering method for photograph acquisition. The long-term objectives are to increase the detection rate of wrong-patient errors by embedding an intrinsic, externally visible biometric identifier with medical imaging studies; and increase interpreting physician throughput by decreasing interpretation time.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.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是广泛采用一种高效且易于使用的技术，将患者照片与放射学图像集成，以改善患者安全，提高医疗保健效率，并将放射科医生与患者重新联系起来。成功的商业化结果是，通过提高患者安全和医院质量，这种采用可以直接节省医疗保健成本；即使放射科医生的效率提高10%，也能节省约9亿美元的医疗费用。这项新技术更广泛的影响是，它可以为数百种新的数字医疗设备生成的数字数据提供患者身份验证。任何这些数字数据都可能出现在错误的病人的医疗记录中，身份验证至关重要。智能远程医疗系统的快速发展带来的危险是，患者可能会变成纯粹的数据，但这些照片可以使解释医生的注意力回到患者身上，从而通过以患者为中心的护理来改善结果。这项技术允许医生在深入研究解剖、生理和分子水平的数据之前，将病人作为一个人来联系，从而实现这一目标。这个小型企业创新研究二期项目将无缝、安全地集成放射科患者识别系统，通过避免可预防的错误，提高患者安全性，并提高吞吐量。这种变革性的方法克服了现有患者识别方法的失败，同时利用嵌入式摄像系统的力量来改善患者护理。在x射线和CT采集过程中，自动同时获取和嵌入患者音频和视频数据的技术将根据该合同进行开发。具体而言，将完成以下目标：1)开发成熟的软件框架，使系统能够快速扩展到大量医院；2)将系统扩展到CT扫描仪和固定x光机；3)通过增加红外立体图像捕获来提高图像质量，以确保即使在低光环境下获得的照片也具有价值；4)增强具有视频和音频功能的摄像机，这将提高患者识别能力，同时收集丰富的临床信息。5)改进了图像采集触发方法。长期目标是通过在医学成像研究中嵌入内在的、外部可见的生物识别标识符来提高错误患者错误的检出率；并通过减少口译时间来提高口译医生的吞吐量。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。