I-Corps Teams: VSTEP Digital Health Platform

I-Corps VSTEP数字健康项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是提高临床医生的效率，并参与治疗中风后和帕金森病等神经系统疾病的患者。使用现成的硬件和定制软件可以降低购买设备和提供护理的成本。它还促进了各种规模的诊所可以采用创新技术来治疗病人。定制治疗可能会提高临床医生的生产力，改善结果，减少治疗时间。对患者和临床医生表现的洞察可以帮助诊所和保险提供商降低成本并提供更好的护理。可以通过提供一种引人入胜的疗法来实现社会影响，这种疗法可以增加社会化和减少孤独感，最重要的是增加社会的活动和参与。该项目将有助于决定是否进一步开发该技术并将其商业化。这项i-Corps项目旨在探索VSTEP数字健康平台的商业潜力，该平台是一种综合解决方案，用于全面检查和治疗神经系统疾病患者的平衡、行动、协调和健康缺陷。这些缺陷在神经学诊断后经常出现，在不治疗时持续存在，并干扰活动和参与社会角色。这项技术将运动和心率传感与虚拟环境中基于活动的引人入胜的治疗性游戏相结合。它还有一个检查套件，使用标准化的评估来指导治疗活动。定制化的治疗确保了患者目标的实现，临床医生？这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps VSTEP Digital Health project is to increase clinician efficiency and engagement with therapy for persons with neurological conditions such as post-stroke and with Parkinson Disease. Using off-the shelf hardware and custom software decreases cost both for equipment purchase and providing care. It also facilitates that clinics of all sizes can adopt innovative technology in treatment of patients. Customization of therapy may increase clinician productivity, enhance outcomes and decrease treatment time. Insights on patient and clinician performance can help clinics and insurance providers lower costs and provide better care. Societal impact may be achieved by providing an engaging therapy that increases socialization and decrease loneliness and most importantly increases activity and participation in society. The project will facilitate a decision about whether to pursue further development and commercialization of the technology.This I-Corps project seeks to explore the commercial potential of The VSTEP Digital Health Platform which is an integrated solution for the comprehensive examination and treatment of balance, mobility, coordination and fitness deficits of persons with neurologic conditions. These deficits which occur frequently after neurologic diagnosis, persist when not treated and interfere with activity and participation in societal roles. The technology integrates motion and heart rate sensing with activity based engaging therapeutic games presented in a virtual environment. It also has an examination suite which uses standardized assessments that guide the therapeutic activities. Customization of the therapy ensures that the patient's goals are achieved and the clinicians? insights and reasoning for care are incorporated with the technology.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.