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.

项目摘要： 我们建议在SBIR努力中开发一个基于智能手机或平板电脑的应用程序，以供护理人员 对患者的慢性伤口进行非侵入性和定量测量，尤其是在糖尿病上 在护理设施或患者家中的脚步溃疡。由于慢性伤口需要数月甚至几个月 更长的愈合，很有可能会越来越多的患者从医院出院。 为了跟进伤口愈合的进度，门诊病人必须经常探望临床医生 为了评估伤口愈合的进度，时间。另外，当前的伤口评估 方法主要提供准确性较差的信息，并且具有侵入性。缺乏精确的伤口数据 使临床医生难以跟踪细微的伤口变化，从而阻碍了对的正确评估 治疗有效性。拟议的软件技术将是首次提供精确的软件技术 伤口测量以及移动平台上的分析功能。它将为 慢性伤口患者通过提供低成本，有效和个性化的护理解决方案。具有独特的 框架和与现有方法相比，专有技术可以轻松 适用于其他类型的伤口和疾病（例如烧伤）的诊断和治疗的好处， 急性伤口，战伤和肿瘤照射治疗。它也具有很大的潜力 改善任何远程地区的急诊疗法。具有诊断和治疗的能力 远程，我们希望我们的技术将完全改变数十亿美元的景观 伤口护理市场。 美国大约有650万患者患有慢性伤口，例如 糖尿病足溃疡和压疮，每年约有140,000名患者住院 新伤口。由于健康的增加，治疗慢性伤口的负担也在迅速增长 全球糖尿病和肥胖症发生率的护理费用，人口老龄化以及急剧上升。这是 声称每年花费超过250亿美元用于治疗慢性伤口。无疑， 基于移动平台的3D伤口评估工具的开发非常重要，将提供 急需的解决方案。