Planning IUCRC Virginia Tech: Center for Cyber-Physical Systems for the Hospital Operating Room (CyBHOR)

2014年，仅美国就在医疗保健上花费了2.6万亿美元。随着婴儿潮时期出生的7600万人即将退休，包括许多在医疗行业工作的人，这一数字在未来20年可能还会增加。该计划拨款将为弗吉尼亚理工大学（VT）的医院手术室（CyBHOR）工业大学合作研究中心建立网络物理系统站点奠定基础。作为该计划的一部分，研究人员寻求为我们最脆弱的人群：儿童和老年人开发医疗保健和外科技术。该基地将补充休斯敦卫理公会和佛罗里达大学现有的基地。弗吉尼亚理工大学将利用这笔规划拨款来完善新基地的愿景，以满足日益增长的生物医学需求，与CyBHOR的使命相辅相成。为实现这一目标，将在华盛顿特区与潜在的行业成员举行组织会议，确保行业合作伙伴的财务承诺，并选择初始项目。规划补助金将允许从多个工业伙伴招聘和投入，以调查六个医疗设备研究项目。最初提出的研究项目涉及的领域包括通过模拟人形患者培训下一代医疗工作者，以及通过实时组织特性监测治疗儿科和老年外科和医疗保健需求。这些项目将与行业合作伙伴一起为网站的初步研究工作进行完善，这将导致美国工业，特别是医疗保健产品提供商的创新和竞争力的增加。

The U.S. alone spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2014. This number is likely to increase over the next two decades as Baby Boomers, numbering 76 million, will retire, including many who work in medical professions. This planning grant will lay the foundation to establish a site of the Cyber-physical systems for the Hospital Operating Room (CyBHOR) Industry University Cooperative Research Center at Virginia Tech (VT). As part of this proposed site, the researchers seek to develop healthcare and surgical technologies for our most vulnerable populations: children and older adults. The site will complement existing sites at Houston Methodist and the University of Florida. Virginia Tech will use this planning grant to refine the vision for the new site in order to address growing biomedical needs complementary to the mission of CyBHOR. To achieve this, an organizational meeting will be held in the Washington, DC area with prospective industry members, secure financial commitments from industry partners, and select initial projects. The planning grant will allow the recruitment and input from multiple industrial partners to investigate six medical device research projects. Initial proposed research projects address areas ranging from training the next generation of healthcare workers via humanoid patient simulation, to treating both pediatric and geriatric surgical and healthcare needs with real-time tissue property monitoring. These projects will be refined with industry partners for the site's initial research efforts that will lead to increased innovation and competitiveness of U.S. industry, specifically providers of healthcare products.