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： 我们建议在此 SBIR 努力中开发一款基于智能手机或平板电脑的应用程序，供护理人员 对患者的慢性伤口进行非侵入性定量测量，尤其是糖尿病患者的慢性伤口 在护理机构或患者家中发生足部溃疡。由于慢性伤口需要数月甚至数月的时间 治愈时间较长，很可能会有越来越多的患者提前出院。 为了跟进伤口愈合进度，门诊患者必须定期拜访临床医生很长一段时间 的时间来评估他们的伤口愈合进度。此外，目前的伤口评估 方法大多提供的信息准确性较差且具有侵入性。缺乏精确的伤口数据 使得临床医生很难追踪细微的伤口变化，从而阻碍对伤口的正确评估 治疗效果。拟议的软件技术将是第一个报告提供精确 移动平台上的伤口测量和分析功能。将会给大家带来很大的好处 通过提供低成本、有效和个性化的护理解决方案来帮助慢性伤口患者。以其独特的 框架和优于现有方法的许多优点，专有技术可以很容易地 应用于诊断和治疗其他类型的伤口和疾病，如烧伤、 急性伤口、战伤、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。具备诊断和治疗能力 从远处看，我们预计我们的技术将彻底改变数十亿美元的格局 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 名患者因糖尿病住院 新的伤口。由于健康水平的提高，治疗慢性伤口的负担也在迅速增加 护理成本、人口老龄化以及全球糖尿病和肥胖症发病率急剧上升。这是 声称每年有超过 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意义重大，并将提供 急需的解决方案。