Combining Autism Telehealth and Screening Technologies for Earlier Diagnostic Assessments

摘要： 此阶段IIb赠款申请描述了一项计划，以展示显著改善 在非常小的年龄识别自闭症受试者并促进自闭症的诊断评估 早些时候通过久经考验的远程医疗服务。该计划包括与一家私人公司合作 (CHADIS)拥有大量转介儿科医生的客户群，这些医生已经在使用他们的 对幼儿进行自闭症筛查的技术。我们有一种新的远程自闭症远程医疗系统 诊断评估被称为野田™。我们可以添加创新，包括实时 远程医疗模块，并与广泛使用的CHADIS™系统集成，提供 最先进的远程保健系统，用于儿科医生通过电子方式转介高危儿童 对于比传统诊断诊所更早的专业诊断诊所的远程诊断评估 方法：研究方法。这一新颖的系统将通过在以下方面提供同等服务而使受试者受益 与现有程序相比时间更短，也可能改善目前的 缺乏合格的训练有素的自闭症诊断临床医生进行早期诊断。建议数 研究包括在几个主要临床中心和商业中心注册受试者 设置。如果被证明成功，我们称之为野田增强型™的新系统将受益 对自闭症患者的早期干预服务的需求，无论家庭是否可以 亲自访问诊断评估。在商业上，野田与 广泛使用的CHADIS系统将大大增加商业化的机会 成功的产品。

Summary: This Phase IIb grant application describes a plan for demonstrating significant improvement of identifying ASD subjects at a very young age and facilitating diagnostic assessments for autism earlier via a proven telehealth service. The plan includes partnering with a private company (CHADIS) that has a substantial client base of referring pediatricians already using their technology to screen toddlers for autism. We have a novel telehealth system for remote autism diagnostic assessment called NODA™. We can add innovations including a Realtime Telemedicine module, and integration with the widely-used CHADIS™ system to provide a state-of-the-art telehealth system for pediatricians to refer at-risk young children electronically for a remote diagnostic assessment with a specialty diagnostic clinic earlier than conventional methods. This novel system will be shown to benefit subjects by providing equivalent services in a shorter time period compared to existing procedures and may also improve the current shortage of early diagnosis by qualified trained autism diagnostic clinicians. The proposed studies include enrollment of subjects in several major clinical centers and in commercial settings. If shown to be successful, the new system we call NODA Enhanced™ will benefit need for intervention services for ASD subjects at an earlier age, and regardless if families can access diagnostic assessments in person. Commercially, the combining of NODA with the widely used CHADIS system will substantially raise the opportunities for a commercially successful product.