SBIR Phase I: Mixed reality wearable technology to improve workflow, productivity, and training in medical sterilization environments

SBIR 第一阶段：混合现实可穿戴技术，用于改善医疗灭菌环境中的工作流程、生产力和培训

• 批准号: 2144074
• 负责人: Scotty Jones
• 金额: $ 25.47万
• 依托单位: STERILE GEEKS VR INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2144074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Mixed; reality; wearable

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to help hospitals improve their sterile processing departments (SPD), where decontamination, sterilization, and assembly of medical equipment and devices occur. The company’s proposed solution seeks to enhance SPD technicians’ work performance and skill levels, decrease SPDs’ operating costs, reduce Hospital Associated Infections (HAI) and Surgical Site Infections (SSI), lessen expensive surgical delays, and reduce related healthcare service delivery costs. Sterile processing technicians play a critical role in preventing infection by sterilizing, cleaning, processing, assembling, storing, and distributing medical supplies. They are directly responsible for disinfection and sterilization of hospital instruments/devices. The team uses mixed reality designed to augment the day-to-day work responsibilities of SPD technicians while supporting the cost-effectiveness of operating a SPD. The solution’s digital content and holograms provide an immersive experience increasing competency, maximizing workflow, and boosting productivity.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project incorporates three applications into augmented reality hardware to enhance the job performance of sterile processing department (SPD) technicians. The applications include barcode/radio frequency identification (RFID) reading, traceability and surgical instrument detection, and inspection utilizing Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO). These applications are designed to provide efficient and accurate tracking, improved workflow, and increased worker productivity. The research goals of the project include creating a software application programming interface (API) capable of reading barcodes and RFID tags. By providing additional monitoring and tracking capabilities with automated data within the users' field of view and creating an application to enhance object detection capabilities, SPDs in hospitals, doctors' offices and at-home care locations can learn, in real time, the best practices for sterilization of infected surfaces to enable safer and healthier living and work spaces.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)第一阶段项目的更广泛影响是帮助医院改善其无菌处理部门(SPD)，该部门进行医疗设备和器械的去污、消毒和组装。该公司提出的解决方案旨在提高SPD技术人员的工作绩效和技能水平，降低SPD的运营成本，减少医院相关感染(HAI)和手术部位感染(SSI)，减少昂贵的手术延误，并降低相关的医疗服务提供成本。无菌处理技术人员通过对医疗用品进行消毒、清洁、加工、组装、储存和分发，在预防感染方面发挥着关键作用。他们直接负责医院器械/器械的消毒和灭菌。该团队使用混合现实，旨在增加SPD技术人员的日常工作责任，同时支持运营SPD的成本效益。该解决方案的数字内容和全息图提供身临其境的体验，以提高能力、最大限度地提高工作流程和提高生产率。该小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将三个应用程序整合到增强现实硬件中，以提高无菌处理部门(SPD)技术人员的工作绩效。这些应用包括条形码/射频识别(RFID)读取、可追溯性和手术器械检测，以及利用视觉惯性里程计(VIO)进行检查。这些应用程序旨在提供高效、准确的跟踪、改进的工作流程和提高员工的工作效率。该项目的研究目标包括创建能够读取条形码和RFID标签的软件应用程序编程接口(API)。通过在用户视野内提供具有自动化数据的附加监控和跟踪功能，并创建应用程序来增强物体检测能力，医院、医生办公室和居家护理地点的SPD可以实时了解感染表面消毒的最佳实践，以使生活和工作空间更安全、更健康。该奖项反映了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。