Winning Technology: IncludeHealth Platform
IncludeHealth Inc.
Inventors: Ryan Eder and Brandon Eder
Engineers: Jamison Float, Brent Burchfield, Tony Morgan, Gary Myers, Chris Slee, Lauren Mitchell, Matt Grover.
The IncludeHealth Platform pairs HIPAA compliant cloud software with connected, inclusive rehabilitation/fitness equipment to offer users better outcomes at a more affordable cost. Subscriptions are offered on a monthly basis.
The IncludeHealth Platform offers extensive protocol libraries, scheduling, live guidance, and autonomous tracking & analytics of all activities performed. Objective data from IncludeHealth and from third party sources can analyzed and aggregated on both a macro and micro scale.
Their first piece of equipment is The Access Strength. Users can do hundreds of different upper and lower body exercises on the machine while standing, seated or from a wheelchair.
How the IncludeHealth Platform works is that the healthcare provider can browse through cloud libraries and create reusable custom protocols based on the patient’s needs. Then when the patient is ready to do the exercises, he or she just pulls the correct profile from the cloud and follows through the routine on the equipment. While the patient is on the equipment, data is collected on velocity force, power, tempo, range of motion and symmetry which is uploaded to the cloud and is available for analysis and for sharing between providers, patients and payers to improve outcomes and streamline care.
Winning Technology: Intelligent Medical Device Platform for Pain Management
iTrace Biomedical Inc.
Inventor: Krishna Sharma, Ph.D.
Engineer: Curtis Tom
The Intelligent Medical Device Platform for Pain Management is a portable device that delivers heat, cold, wearable ultrasounds, and TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) to treat sports injuries.
The platform is connected to a cloud-based server which allows for tracking of pain therapy data, compliance, and the outcome of prescribed therapies (i.e., pain score feedback provided by patients) thus helping doctors/trainers/physiotherapists determine personalized therapy modality and dosage.
This self-learning software platform gives sports medicine doctors and physical therapists access to an international patient database to help them determine the best therapy options for any given pain or injury symptoms for individual patients based on their unique profile (BMI [body mass index], tissue composition, age, sex, etc.). The Intelligent Medical Device Platform for Pain Management uses objective data to personalize sports injury treatment in an effort to speed up patient recovery while at the same time, reduce unnecessary costs.
Currently, identifying the right physical modality for pain management (heat, cold, electric stimulation, ultrasound or a combination of therapies), the right dosage (intensity, temperature, exposure time) and number of sessions is more of a subjective decision based on a provider’s experience and knowledge. With this platform, however, they will have access to much more data to help them prescribe the best treatment for each individual patient. iTrace has completed the commercial prototype of their device and are in the process of creating additional devices.
