IUCRC Phase I USC: Center to Stream Healthcare In Place (C2SHIP)

慢性疾病在经济上和情感上都是昂贵的。需要立即采取创造性行动，为管理身体、社会和心理需求提供解决方案，以保持自主性和生活质量。缺乏对慢性病患者长期功能的研究。就地分流医疗保健中心(C2SHIP)将学术医学领域的最优秀人才与生物医药行业的领导者联合起来，研究、开发和推广在家中管理慢性病的就地医疗技术。亚利桑那大学是C2SHIP的牵头网站，合作网站是南加州大学、贝勒医学院和加州理工学院。该中心将通过合作伙伴关系、多专业协作和资源共享来加速创新。C2SHIP将培养一支受过教育的劳动力队伍，通过自我护理技术促进健康。中心的跨学科团队将在新材料传感器、可重构设计以及与数据挖掘、机器学习和人工智能的系统集成方面进行研究和开发。通过物联网，患者数据可以实时流到远程位置的医疗专业人员手中，为弱势患者在自己家中建立移动枢纽。C2SHIP将专注于缓解生理、环境和心理变化，以实现实时管理和干预。南加州大学(USC)将专注于该中心的临床医学方面，向患者现场证明尖端技术，同时培训学生和研究员远程患者护理。该中心将通过合作伙伴关系加速学术界和产业界之间的知识和知识产权转移。这将促进新技术的快速发展，并通过提高慢性病患者的生活质量，同时降低医疗成本和防止住院来改变医疗服务提供。学生参与建议的研究项目将创造与中心公司和组织的机会，并在C2SHIP会议和研讨会上提供多学科参与。南加州大学C2SHIP将招收医学、生物医学工程、联合卫生等专业的学生和教师。南加州大学促进一个包容性的环境，允许中心吸引来自不同背景的代表性不足的个人。项目产生的数据将使用密码保护的Box数据共享文件夹存储在C2SHIP中心的中心范围的服务器中。Box是一家云计算公司，提供文件共享、协作和其他工具，用于处理上传到其服务器的文件。数据将保存五年。收集患者数据的南加州大学C2SHIP项目将在项目启动前获得南加州大学IRB的批准。所有数据都将被识别，不会以任何形式记录或保留个人识别符。这一裁决反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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。

Chronic health conditions are financially and emotionally costly. Immediate, creative action is needed to provide solutions for managing physical, social and psychological needs that maintain autonomy and quality of life. Research on long-term functioning of those with chronic illnesses is lacking. The Center to Stream Healthcare In Place (C2SHIP) unites the best minds in academic medicine with leaders in biomedical industry to research, develop and promote in-place care technologies for managing chronic diseases in the home. The University of Arizona serves as the C2SHIP Lead Site with Partner Sites being University of Southern California, Baylor College of Medicine, and California Institute of Technology. The Center will accelerate innovation through partnerships, multi-specialty collaborations, and resource sharing. C2SHIP will prepare an educated workforce to promote wellness through self-care technologies.The Center’s trans-disciplinary team will pursue research and development in new material-based sensors, reconfigurable designs, and system integration with data mining, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Through “Internet of Things”, patient data can be streamed to medical professionals at remote locations in real-time, establishing a mobile hub for vulnerable patients in their own home. C2SHIP will focus on mitigating physiological, environmental, and psychological changes for real-time management and intervention. University of Southern California (USC) will focus on the clinical medicine aspect of the Center, proving cutting-edge technologies to patients in-place, while training students and fellows in remote patient care.The Center will accelerate knowledge and intellectual property transfer between academia and industry through collaborative partnerships. This will promote rapid development of new technologies, and transform health care delivery by enhancing the quality of life of chronically-ill patients while reducing health care costs and preventing hospitalizations. Student engagement in the proposed research projects will create opportunities with Center companies and organizations, and provide multidisciplinary participation at C2SHIP conferences and workshops. USC C2SHIP will recruit students and engage faculty in medicine, biomedical engineering, allied health. USC promotes an inclusive environment, allowing the Center to engage underrepresented individuals from diverse backgrounds.Data produced from the projects will be housed in Center-wide servers at the C2SHIP Center using a password protected Box data sharing folder. Box is a cloud computing business which provides file-sharing, collaborating, and other tools for working with files that are uploaded to its servers. Data will be maintained for five years. USC C2SHIP projects that collect patient data will be approved by USC IRB prior to project onset. All data will be deidentified, with no personal identifiers recorded or retained in any form.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.