Wound healing progress tracking through mobile devices

通过移动设备跟踪伤口愈合进度

• 批准号: 9605561
• 负责人: Steven Yi
• 金额: $ 74.95万
• 依托单位: XYKEN, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9605561
• 关键词: ARNT gene; Acute; Adopted; Appearance; Area; Assessment tool; Burn injury; Caregivers; Caring; Cellular Phone; Chronic; Chronic Care; Chronically Ill; Client; Clinical; Clinical Nurse Specialists; Computer software; Data; Data Storage and Retrieval; Decubitus ulcer; Development; Devices; Diabetes Mellitus; Diabetic Foot Ulcer; Diagnosis; Disease; Elderly; Emergency Care; Evaluation; Foot Ulcer; Funding; Generations; Goals; Growth; Health Care Costs; Health Technology; Health care facility; Home environment; Hospitals; Improve Access; Incidence; Industry; Laboratories; Light; Liquid substance; Location; Measurement; Measures; Medical; Medical center; Methods; Modeling; Monitor; Nature; Nurses; Obesity; Outpatients; Patients; Phase; Process; Quality of Care; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Resolution; Retrieval; Secure; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Structure; System; Tablets; Technology; Testing; Three-Dimensional Imaging; Time; Training; Treatment Effectiveness; Ulcer; United States National Institutes of Health; Visit; Wound Healing; aging population; base; chronic wound; cost; cost effective; design; digital; empowered; experience; follow-up; handheld mobile device; healing; irradiation; mHealth; mobile application; mobile computing; new technology; personalized care; phantom model; programs; reconstruction; software systems; success; tool; treatment planning; trend; tumor; wound

Project Summary: We propose in this SBIR effort to develop a smartphone or tablet based app for caregivers to perform non-invasive and quantitative measurements of patients' chronic wounds especially on diabtetic foot ulcers either at care facilities or at patients' home. Since chronic wounds take months or even longer to heal, it is highly likely that more and more patients will be discharged early from the hospitals. To follow up with the wound healing progress, outpatients must routinely visit clinicians for a long period of time in order to have their wound healing progress assessed. In addition, current wound assessment methods mostly provide information with poor accuracy and are invasive. The lack of precise wound data makes it difficult for clinicians to track subtle wound changes, thus hindering the correct assessment of the treatment effectiveness. The proposed software technology will be the first reported to offer precise wound measurement as well as analysis capabilities on mobile platforms. It will provide great benefit to chronic wound patients by providing a low-cost, effective, and personalized care solution. With its unique framework and many advantages over existing methods, the proprietary technology can be easily applied to the benefit of diagnosis and treatment on other type of wounds and diseases such as burns, acute wounds, battle wounds, and tumor irradiation treatment. It also has substantial potential for improving access to emergency care in any remote regions. With the ability of diagnosis and treatment remotely, we expect that our technology will completely change the landscape of the multi-billion dollar wound care market. There are approximately 6.5 million patients in the U.S. suffering from chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and pressure ulcers, and approximately 140,000 patients hospitalized every year with new wounds. The burden of treating chronic wounds is also growing rapidly due to increasing health care costs, an aging population, and a sharp rise in the incidence of diabetes and obesity worldwide. It is claimed that an excess of $25 billion is spent annually on the treatment of chronic wounds. Undoubtedly, the development of a mobile platform based 3D wound assessment tool is significant and will provide a much needed solution.

项目概要： 我们建议在SBIR中为护理人员开发基于智能手机或平板电脑的应用程序， 对患者的慢性伤口进行非侵入性和定量测量，尤其是糖尿病患者 在护理机构或患者家中的足部溃疡。由于慢性伤口需要数月甚至 由于康复的时间较长，极有可能会有越来越多的病人提早出院。 为了跟踪伤口愈合的进展，门诊患者必须长期定期拜访临床医生 以评估其伤口愈合进度。此外，目前的伤口评估 这些方法大多提供的信息准确性差，并且是侵入性的。缺乏精确的伤口数据 使得临床医生难以跟踪细微的伤口变化，从而阻碍了对伤口的正确评估。 治疗效果。据报道，拟议的软件技术将首次提供精确的 伤口测量以及移动的平台上的分析能力。它将为 通过提供低成本、有效和个性化的护理解决方案，帮助慢性伤口患者。以其独特 框架和现有方法的许多优点，专有技术可以很容易地 适用于烧伤等其他类型创伤和疾病的诊断和治疗， 急性创伤、战伤和肿瘤放射治疗。它还具有巨大的潜力， 改善任何偏远地区获得紧急护理的机会。具有诊断和治疗能力 我们希望我们的技术能够彻底改变数十亿美元的景观， 伤口护理市场。 美国约有650万患者患有慢性伤口， 糖尿病足溃疡和压力性溃疡，每年约有140，000名患者住院， 新的伤口治疗慢性伤口的负担也由于健康状况的日益增加而迅速增长 保健费用、人口老龄化以及全球糖尿病和肥胖症发病率的急剧上升。是 每年用于治疗慢性伤口的费用超过250亿美元。毫无疑问， 基于移动的平台的3D伤口评估工具的开发是重要的， 非常需要的解决方案。