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TI Translational Impacts |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | November 17, 2014 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | November 17, 2014 |
| Award Number: | 1462565 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Steven Konsek
TI Translational Impacts TIP Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships |
| Start Date: | December 1, 2014 |
| End Date: | May 31, 2016 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $50,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $50,000.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
302 BUCHTEL COMMON AKRON OH US 44325-0001 (330)972-2760 |
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302 Buchtel Akron OH US 44325-0001 |
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| NSF Program(s): | I-Corps |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.084 |
ABSTRACT
Telemedicine allows healthcare providers to connect with patients across distances while electronic health records enhance the portability and accessibility of patients' medical histories. Telemedicine is recognized as a method to drive down cost while improving efficiency, quality of care, and patient satisfaction. The use of telemedicine has spread rapidly in the past decade and is now becoming integrated into several sectors of healthcare industry including hospitals, specialty departments, home health agencies, private physician offices as well as consumers' homes and workplaces. Despite all of the innovative products within the telemedicine market today, significant barriers remain including physician acceptance, cost, and integration into health delivery. In this proposal, the team is proposing the development of a completely remote Virtual Physical Examination (VPE) system, a type of telemedicine platform. The proposed VPE platform is an innovative tool that acquires and collects the visual and audio as well as the cardiac examination data of the patients and transfers it securely to a database to be stored for future access. The VPE app can be distributed to multiple technicians including nurses, aides, family members, or primary care providers, creating a rich network of opportunities to participate in telemedicine with improved integration of quality care.
The proposed VPE offers convenient and cost effective delivery of care in diverse environments opening new patient markets and enhancing patient satisfaction. The novel software solution will also expand access of care providers to underserved communities. The system is comprised of a digital processing device connected to a computer network comprised of a computer readable storage device and an operating system configured to perform executable instructions. The prototype has been developed and optimized to function on diverse Android devices. The computer program provides executable instructions to create a remote VPE system. The software module efficiently directs a technician to electronically record a complete physical examination in a stepwise fashion that can be comprehensive or focused by a health care professional. The Android app provides technicians with complete visual and auditory instructions on how to properly perform the VPE based upon anatomic landmarks and can incorporate exam maneuvers.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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The project resulted in a versatile and full functional platform to record, trasnmit and store a physical examination. All the components of the platform were designed, developed and fully tested. These include an android-based app to capture a physical examination including video, voice, text and stethoscope data on a smart phone, A Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant storage and transmission scheme that transmits the recorded data to a secure cloud database, a sarchable data base to securely store the data, a web interafce for the physician to download and examine the captured data that is tored in the data base, and a peer-to-peer HIPAA compliant video conferencing tool tfor the physician to have a followup session with the patient. The complete platform was tested and debugged and is ready to be used. TeleHealth Care Solution compnay, an Ohio startup, is now marketing the product to nusring facilities, as the intial target market. Several nursing faciluities have shown interest in the product and are willing to subsribe to the service. The team has also worked with University Hospitals (UH) of Cleveland to use the platform on the extended network of UH. All the regulatory and technical issues related to the use of the platform on UH network have been addressed.
Last Modified: 08/10/2016
Modified by: Hamid Bahrami
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