Intelligent Digital Stethoscope for Improved Auscultation and Remote Healthcare

用于改善听诊和远程医疗保健的智能数字听诊器

• 批准号: 10044626
• 金额: $ 6.23万
• 依托单位: LAENNEC AI LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for 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=10044626
• 关键词: Intelligent; Digital; Stethoscope; Improved; Auscultation

**Purpose:** Designing and marketing cost-effective high-end technology stethoscopes using bottom-up approach.**Problem:** Stethoscopes available in the market have undergone very little innovation. Of those, most have been developed by taking into consideration the engineer's perspective and not the user's perspective in mind. They also tend to be very expensive, especially for a medical professional from developing nations.**Solution:** After working in the medical care sector for a decade, we realized that essential clinical tools used today are technologically outdated. This led to the idea of developing cost-effective digital medical devices using high-end technology with Artificial Intelligence (AI). We aim to design our products from a user's perspective using an evidence-based Public Health tool - Health Needs Assessment (HNA). HNA is widely used in Public Health to understand the needs of the user and to improve the quality of healthcare delivered. This tool uses a bottoms-up approach to provide services that are tailor-made for the users.**Uniqueness:** We re-design and digitalise the stethoscope with four pillars in mind. They are accuracy, interoperability, intelligence, and aesthetics (user friendliness, and looks). The current stethoscope technology uses a normal microphone-based system is not smart and lacks the capability to track, store and share information.Our intelligent stethoscopes are capable of:* Interoperability (Storing and sharing information in audio and video format)* Supporting health professionals for better decisions: Integrated with Machine Learning and Artificial IntelligenceAll these advancements come without compromising the looks, the stethoscopes have touch screen displays with GUI interface and come with a compatible application that runs on mobile and PCs.**Green Growth strategy:** We are focused on a green growth strategy and aim to use sustainable and environmentally friendly materials.**Equality strategy**: We are committed to ensuring that equality and human rights are considered in everything we do.The market is massive. Our stethoscopes can be used by doctors, nurses, paramedics, veterinarians, and home healthcare. Sooner this tool is going to be inevitable for remote healthcare and telemedicine. The global stethoscope market size is anticipated to reach USD 826.72 million by 2028\. The global medical devices market size accounted at US$ 447.63 billion in 2019\. The Covid-19 pandemic shown us the requirement of tools for remote healthcare. Our major competitors are Littmann Eko, and ThinkLabs. We have a competitive advantage over them in terms of technology, sensors, aesthetics, algorithm and artificial intelligence, that we are using to deliver user requirements.

** 目的：** 采用自下而上的方法设计和销售具有成本效益的高端技术听诊器。**问题：** 市场上的听诊器几乎没有什么创新。其中，大多数是考虑到工程师的观点而不是用户的观点开发的。它们也往往非常昂贵，特别是对于来自发展中国家的医疗专业人员来说。解决方案：** 在医疗保健领域工作了十年后，我们意识到今天使用的基本临床工具在技术上已经过时。这导致了使用人工智能（AI）高端技术开发具有成本效益的数字医疗设备的想法。我们的目标是从用户的角度设计我们的产品，使用基于证据的公共卫生工具-健康需求评估（HNA）。海航在公共卫生领域被广泛应用，以了解用户的需求并提高医疗服务的质量。该工具采用自下而上的方法为用户提供量身定制的服务。** Unique：** 我们重新设计并数字化了听诊器，并牢记四个支柱。它们是准确性，互操作性，智能和美学（用户友好性和外观）。目前的听诊器技术使用普通的基于麦克风的系统是不智能的，并且缺乏跟踪，存储和共享信息的能力。我们的智能听诊器能够：* 互操作性（以音频和视频格式存储和共享信息）* 支持卫生专业人员做出更好的决策：与机器学习和人工智能集成所有这些进步都不会影响外观，听诊器具有带GUI界面的触摸屏显示器，并配有可在移动的和PC上运行的兼容应用程序。**绿色增长战略：** 我们专注于绿色增长战略，旨在使用可持续和环保的材料。**平等战略 **：我们致力于确保在我们所做的一切中考虑平等和人权。市场是巨大的。我们的听诊器可供医生、护士、护理人员、兽医和家庭医疗保健人员使用。很快，这种工具将不可避免地用于远程医疗和远程医疗。到2028年，全球听诊器市场规模预计将达到8.2672亿美元。2019年全球医疗器械市场规模为4476.3亿美元。新型冠状病毒疫情向我们展示了远程医疗工具的需求。我们的主要竞争对手是Littmann Eko和ThinkLabs。在技术、传感器、美学、算法和人工智能方面，我们拥有竞争优势，我们正在利用这些优势来满足用户的需求。