Improving Long COVID patient recovery through voice-based AI symptom tracking and personalised rehabilitation

通过基于语音的人工智能症状跟踪和个性化康复改善长期新冠肺炎患者的康复

• 批准号: 10032047
• 金额: $ 17.19万
• 依托单位: DDM HEALTH LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10032047
• 关键词: Improving; Long; COVID; patient; recovery

Long COVID is an illness that has affected 40% of the world's 478 million survivors of COVID-19.\[6\] 1.3 million people have Long COVID in the UK.\[7\] The condition is highly debilitating can significantly affect mental wellbeing, family, employment, and overall quality of life. Nearly 2 million days are lost in NHS staff absences in England due to Long COVID. There are few apps that are used to manage Long COVID and zero use voice to detect/track symptoms of Long COVID. Although comprehensively covering general rehabilitation principles, existing apps lack Covid-19 specificity. 60% of people over 65, a key risk group, do not use a smartphone. As per the NHS Long COVID plan, we need other ways to reach people equitably to manage Long COVID specifically, support focused Long COVID rehabilitation and outcomes.This is the focus of our project. DDM, the lead partner of this project, already provides a multi-platform app across devices including voice-based assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant and smart TVs. DDM currently provides support to people receiving care for obesity, type 2 diabetes and dementia. Our platform provides personalised education and behaviour change support using Artificial Intelligence to provide a therapeutic care plan and behavioral nudges to help people sustain positive health behaviors. Our app is available on Amazon's Alexa devices and smart speakers/TVs.We are partnering with Royal Holloway, University of London who are experts in AI, and Amazon, the maker of smart speakers who is donating Alexa Echo Shows for the project. We plan to adapt our existing best-in-class behavioral change app to monitor the symptoms of Long COVID through communication by voice with our voice-based assistant app on Alexa-enabled devices, and to provide a focused multidisciplinary rehabilitation care plan addressing physical, mental and social needs, and outcomes tracking. To mitigate health inequalities, and as South Asians and Black ethnic backgrounds are at greater risk of Long COVID, we will make the app available in Hindi, Punjabi and Arabic.This means that young and older people alike will be able to access rehabilitation support tailored to their preferences and language through an intuitive voice-based assistant to help them manage the symptoms of Long COVID through specialist rehabilitation for breathing, strength recovery, and mental wellbeing.

长期COVID是一种影响全球4.78亿COVID-19幸存者中40%的疾病。[6]英国有130万人长期感染新冠病毒。[7]这种情况会严重影响心理健康，家庭，就业和整体生活质量。由于长期COVID，英国NHS工作人员缺勤近200万天。很少有应用程序用于管理长期COVID和零使用语音来检测/跟踪长期COVID的症状。虽然全面涵盖了一般康复原则，但现有应用程序缺乏Covid-19特异性。60%的65岁以上的人，一个关键的风险群体，不使用智能手机。根据NHS长期COVID计划，我们需要其他方式来公平地接触人们，以特别管理长期COVID，支持重点长期COVID康复和成果。这是我们项目的重点。该项目的主要合作伙伴DDM已经提供了跨设备的多平台应用程序，包括Alexa，Google Assistant和智能电视等基于语音的助手。DDM目前为肥胖、2型糖尿病和痴呆症患者提供支持。我们的平台使用人工智能提供个性化教育和行为改变支持，以提供治疗护理计划和行为推动，帮助人们保持积极的健康行为。我们的应用程序可以在亚马逊的Alexa设备和智能扬声器/电视上使用。我们与皇家霍洛威，伦敦大学的人工智能专家以及亚马逊合作，亚马逊是智能扬声器的制造商，他为该项目捐赠了Alexa Echo Shows。我们计划调整我们现有的一流行为改变应用程序，通过Alexa设备上的语音助手应用程序进行语音通信，以监测长期COVID的症状，并提供专注的多学科康复护理计划，解决身体，精神和社会需求，以及结果跟踪。为了减少健康不平等，并且由于南亚人和黑人种族背景的人患长期COVID的风险更大，我们将提供印地语，旁遮普语和阿拉伯语的应用程序。这意味着年轻人和老年人都能够通过直观的语音助手获得根据他们的喜好和语言量身定制的康复支持，帮助他们通过呼吸专家康复来管理长期COVID的症状，恢复体力和精神健康