PFI (RAPID): COVID Rapid Response Innovation Community

这一创新伙伴关系（PFI） RAPID项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力在于，能够高效、有效地转化创新技术解决方案，以解决与COVID-19相关的一线医疗短缺问题。大流行引发了严重的供应链短缺。非医疗工程师提供了设计和原型解决方案，但他们的专业知识和创新无法得到有效利用。这些工程创新者缺乏与一线医疗保健决策者的联系，不熟悉与医疗保健设备交付相关的严格要求和流程。填补大流行期间的紧急短缺说明需要快速确保安全，同时也考虑快速规范、设计、扩展、测试和部署。因此，该PFI RAPID项目旨在开发、部署和评估互联快速创新系统，以满足解决方案（危机系统）的确定需求，以满足宾夕法尼亚州费城的供应链短缺。CRISIS系统将简化设备开发/交付流程，并在创新工程师和当地医疗保健决策者之间建立有效、持续的联系——所有这些都是为了提供技术创新来解决一线短缺问题。弗拉拉·温斯顿博士和她的团队将包括妇女和少数民族作为努力的一部分，并将吸引公众参与科学和技术。通过解决与COVID-19相关的一线医疗设备短缺问题，该项目可能会立即产生效益，并可作为一个强大的现实测试案例，为未来扩展到针对未来灾害和紧急短缺的互联高效响应提供支持。为了构建、部署和评估危机系统，该团队提出了两个目标。在目标1中，该小组建议建立连接系统和相关流程，以纳入医疗器械开发中的最佳实践，并实现高效、有目的、系统的创新。在目标2中，他们将通过应用新颖的人工智能方法构建匹配后端（设备/产品需求与技术专长和资源之间），以便采用多个数据源（从公共数据到私人企业数据）以及匹配程度的实时估计。温斯顿博士和她的团队将使用持续的质量改进方法，从每个创新周期中学习如何优化流程和匹配。最终目标将是有效提供COVID-19的技术解决方案。如果在地方一级成功应对COVID-19，那么吸取的经验教训、创新库和软件将用于大规模扩大创新，从而释放满足其他灾害期间需求的潜力。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。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) RAPID project is to enable the efficient and effective translation of innovative technology solutions to meet frontline medical shortages related to COVID-19. The pandemic triggered critical supply chain shortages. Non-medical engineers offered design and prototype solutions, but their expertise and innovations could not be deployed efficiently. These engineering innovators lacked connections to frontline healthcare decision-makers and were unfamiliar with the rigorous requirements of and processes related to the delivery of healthcare devices. Filling urgent shortfalls during a pandemic exemplifies the need to quickly assure safety while also considering rapid specification, design, scaling, testing and deployment. Therefore, this PFI RAPID project aims to develop, deploy, and evaluate the Connected Rapid Innovation System to meet Identified needs with Solutions (the CRISIS System) in order to satisfy supply chain shortages in Philadelphia, PA. The CRISIS system will streamline device development/delivery processes and create impactful, sustained connections between innovative engineers and local healthcare decision-makers – all with the goal to deliver technological innovations to solve frontline shortages. Dr. Flaura Winston and her team will include women and minorities as part of the effort and will engage the public in science and technology. This project may have an immediate benefit by addressing frontline medical device shortages related to COVID-19 and serve as a robust, real-world test case for future expansion to connected, efficient responses for future disaster and emergency shortages. In order to build, deploy and evaluate the CRISIS System, the team proposes two aims. In Aim 1, the group proposes to build the connected system and associated processes to incorporate best practices in medical device development and enable efficient, purposeful, systematic innovation. In Aim 2, they will build the back-end for matchmaking (between device/product needs and technical expertise and resources) through the application of novel artificial intelligence methods in order to employ multiple data sources (from public data to private corporate data) as well as real-time estimations of the degree of matching. Dr. Winston and her team will use continuous quality improvement methods to learn from each innovation cycle about how to optimize both the processes as well as the matches. The ultimate goal will be efficient delivery of technological solutions for COVID-19. If proven successful on the local level for COVID-19, the lessons learned, library of innovations, and software will be available for mass scale-up of innovation, unlocking the potential to meet needs during other disasters.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.