Awards
Docobo Ltd has devised inform@HOMETM, an innovative enhancement of doc@HOME remote monitoring telehealth system with decision support to enable individualised, interactive chronic disease management to provide care at home. Docobo supplies the doc@HOME® telehealth remote monitoring service into 30+ PCTs and NHS Trust's, with cohorts of patients with LTC's, mainly COPD and CHF. Significant reductions in admissions, GP/Nurse calls and visits have been seen, but there is a need for consistency in decision making. This proposal involves an innovative enhancement of doc@HOME, by integrating it with Arezzo, a level 3 Clinical Decision Support Solution (CDSS). Arezzo provides interactive LTC management, providing content, recommendations and advice personalised to the patient.
Exhalation Technology Ltd and an associated company have developed a laboratory device to assess the degree of lung inflammation by analyzing a patient's exhaled breath. The project aims to develop a device which can provide a read-out within ten minutes and can be used in a GP's surgery, specialist clinic or at home by patients monitoring their own condition.
Eykona Technologies has identified a substantial and recognised unmet need in the objective measurement and characterisation of wounds such as diabetic ulcers. It is proposing to meet this need through the use of a patented 3D imaging medical device based on cutting edge technology developed in the University of Oxford and consisting of a proprietary camera and software package. The project will deliver hand-held 3D imaging hardware suitable for initial evaluation by clinicians.
Hidalgo Ltd has developed the successful EquivitalTM sensor system, a remote, multi-parameter physiological system, designed for monitoring healthy personnel with a potentially heightened risk of physical injury. The system provides a key building block for the EquivitalTM LiveLink platform, an integrated healthcare monitoring system concept with applications in the home and hospital setting. The system will provide periodic and real time continuous monitoring of the user alongside interpretative presentation of information to the healthcare practitioner and the user.
Sonovia Ltd has developed a novel ultrasonic patch technology for use in therapeutic and drug delivery applications for patients with chronic musculoskeletal conditions. The patch approach allows problem areas to be targeted to provide direct therapy from the passage of ultrasound combined with enhanced penetration of active substances such as anti-inflammatories and analgesics. The thin flexible patch will allow simple, safe and effective devices to be used in the comfort of patients' own homes.
Competition description
An SBRI competition is being launched in the East of England to find ways to help manage the growing numbers of people with long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, etc. It is looking to industry to bring new technologies to support the achievement of regional health priorities and increase the possibility of adoption in the NHS. This competition is open to all companies, including those not currently engaged in the health sector.
Increasingly, more people are living with long-term health conditions and quite apart from the personal issues this creates; it poses a significant challenge to the local health service. We are therefore looking to fund the development of ideas that could help alleviate this problem.
Have you got a technology or product idea that could help? Your business may use technology that has previously had nothing to do with the healthcare sector, but could cross over into this area and help us to care effectively for people with long-term conditions.
We would like ideas that can be shown to make a difference to the care of patients with long-term conditions. The areas that proposals should focus on are: Remote monitoring of patients combined with decision support to enable better care from home Innovative solutions to data and systems management with relation to patient care.