Making digital health work for excluded populations: a companion app for an AI medical device specifically designed for the most vulnerable heart failure patients

让数字健康服务于被排斥的人群：专为最脆弱的心力衰竭患者设计的人工智能医疗设备配套应用程序

• 批准号: 10055529
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: HEARTFELT TECHNOLOGIES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10055529
• 关键词: Making; digital; health; work; excluded

The catalyst behind the Heartfelt device was a conversation with a heart transplant surgeon in 2015 that prompted a simple question: 'Do you know that half the people I operate on wouldn't require surgery at all if they had reported their symptoms in time?'.Further research enabled the Heartfelt founders to unearth the hidden problem of 'non-adherent' patients. These are mostly elderly people, often living alone, many with deteriorating mental capacity, who are unable to follow the advice given to them by their doctors. Instead of calling for help as their symptoms get worse, they end up as emergency hospital admissions.There are over 60 million people globally with heart failure - a terminal illness with worse survival statistics than most cancers. The cost of treating them is substantial, roughly £1.7billion/year in the UK alone, most of which is spent delivering expensive and often preventable hospital treatments.Heartfelt's vision is to address this problem with autonomous monitoring devices that sit in the patient's home to identify early heart problems. The Heartfelt device is fully automatic and requires no interaction with the patient. The data is uploaded to the cloud and analysed using artificial intelligence, which monitors for critical changes. It is complicated, cutting-edge technology, but utterly simple to use.The programme associated with this award would not only help me develop my leadership skills, and support our profile for fundraising, it will also allow me to develop this app to increase the value that our medical device can already bring to patients. It promotes patient-centric care and is being designed in close consultation with cardiologists, GP, Nurses, patients and their families. It has the potential to improve the life quality of millions of heart patients and also to save the NHS money and reduce waiting time in A&E by freeing up hospital beds.I am also very interested in the volunteering opportunities that come with the project. These will likely increase my involvement in mentoring and encouraging young women and girls to break barriers. Healthcare needs more innovative solutions, and getting more women to consider biotech as a career option will help speed up innovation.

Heartfelt 设备背后的催化剂是 2015 年与一位心脏移植外科医生的一次谈话，谈话中提出了一个简单的问题：“你知道吗，在我接受手术的患者中，如果及时报告症状，有一半根本不需要手术？”。进一步的研究使 Heartfelt 创始人发现了“不依从”患者的隐藏问题。这些人大多是老年人，通常独居，许多人的心智能力不断恶化，无法遵循医生给他们的建议。他们没有在症状恶化时寻求帮助，而是被紧急送往医院。全球有超过 6000 万人患有心力衰竭，这是一种绝症，其生存率统计数据比大多数癌症还要差。治疗这些疾病的成本很高，仅在英国每年就花费约 17 亿英镑，其中大部分用于提供昂贵且通常可以预防的医院治疗。Heartfelt 的愿​​景是通过放置在患者家中的自主监测设备来识别早期心脏问题来解决这个问题。 Heartfelt 设备是全自动的，无需与患者互动。数据上传到云端并使用人工智能进行分析，以监控关键变化。这是复杂的尖端技术，但使用起来非常简单。与该奖项相关的计划不仅可以帮助我发展我的领导技能，支持我们的筹款活动，还可以让我开发这个应用程序，以增加我们的医疗设备已经可以为患者带来的价值。它提倡以患者为中心的护理，并且是在与心脏病专家、全科医生、护士、患者及其家人密切协商后设计的。它有可能改善数百万心脏病患者的生活质量，还可以通过释放医院床位来节省 NHS 资金并减少急症室的等待时间。我对该项目带来的志愿服务机会也非常感兴趣。这些可能会增加我对指导和鼓励年轻女性和女孩打破障碍的参与。医疗保健需要更多创新的解决方案，让更多女性考虑将生物技术作为职业选择将有助于加速创新。