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Title

E-health hardware and software for a secure and optimal communication between doctor and patients or health professionals to provide remote support in telemedicine, assisted surgery and health education

Reference

TOES20210609002

Last update

Wed, Jun, 23, 2021

Deadline

Thu, Jun, 23, 2022

Abstract

A Spanish company, specialising in software, has developed a comprehensive solution that allows communication, sharing real time video and audio with multiple tools, which thanks to augmented reality Internet of Things and wearables, facilitates the support and execution of remote activities such as expert assisted surgery and health education, without cost or trips, and generating evidence of the work performed. The company is looking for license agreement.

Description

Digital technology is advancing exponentially and its cost is plummeting. At the same time the demand for and cost of healthcare is rising, which is challenging most health economies across the world. The need to adopt technology to help meet this challenge seems obvious, but healthcare continues to lag behind other industries in using technology with service, in this case, patient and carers.

In this context, this Spanish company was founded in 2014, by experts in innovative eHealth and Industry 4.0 projects. The aim of software solution offered is to allow the communication from anyplace of the word, sharing real time video and audio. Allowing give instructions and precise indications using augmented reality and its multiple functionalities.

It is an agnostic solution because works with any mobile device, computer and wearables (Smarthglasses, smartwatches, etc), which give it an advantage and versatility when a company decide include it in their devices.

It is thought to be used in e-Health sector addressing different needs:

• Telemedicine: Allow the communication between patients and health professionals in different locations. It is multidevice to facilitate the connection between patient and doctors from anyplace in anytime.
• Specialist medical consult: Consult between patient and health personal (doctor, insurance’s personal, nursing or another specialist) with remote access to integrate a specialist doctor during the medical consultation, reducing the waiting time for consultation and avoiding unnecessary move.
• Collaborative medicine: Teleconferences between health professionals for remote advice to others partners in new surgical techniques and treatments or to do remote diagnostics in a multidisciplinary committee.
• MedTech equipment support: Facilitate real time the communication with internal and external experts for troubleshooting and support in maintenance task of Medtech equipment that is critical for diagnosis and treatment, improving the availability of the equipment and reducing possible breakdowns without having to travel.
• E-Learning: online trainee of sanitary personnel through audio and video streaming with an expert using and explaining over images in real time, and vice versa, so the expert can follow the students in real time from other localizations. Easier with smart glasses.
• Assisted surgery: Remote help and advice in real time to the professional in the middle of surgical intervention through surgeon expert and others surgical specialist, integrating all operating room signal emitting devices (e.g., laparoscopy, operating room camera, monitored constants, etc.)

The solution guarantees a communication with precise instructions due to the augmented reality functionalities like the drawing or writing text over the video and the digital pointer, as well as the option to add more participants, use the mosaic view and share documents. Other features that favour the quality of the instructions are remote control of the optical zoom, the flashlight and the secondary cameras (laparoscopic, operating room, pan–tilt–zoom camera (PTZ), 360º…).

Also, it is possible to follow the issues treated during the calls doing an evidence record through the images capture or video in anytime, as well as its post review in the session history that the solution offer, with all the necessary data of each call: attendance, folder shared, evidence and written messages.

This solution has been successfully implemented in the health sector providing better quality services. Therefore, the company is looking for increasing its international business development by seeking international ICT integrators willing to collaborate under license agreements.

Technology Keywords

Sensors & Wireless products

Keyword Codes:

06005002

Current Stage of Development

Intellectual Property Rights

Secret Know-how

IPR Comments:

Exploitation of RTD Results

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Organisation/Company Size

Organisation Comments

Detailed Market Application Codes (VEIC)

MA Keyword

Other computer services

MA Keyword Codes:

02006009

Application Domain Description:

Collaboration Type

Comments:

The final customers are companies in the health sector or hospitals that are looking for the best technological solutions for implementation in operating theatres, consulting rooms, etc. As well as offering better patient care or a new way of remote training.

Therefore, the ideal partner could be wearables or digital transformation companies that want to extend their offer with a solution that allows them integrate the connected patient through a single technological platform. In this context, the Spanish company is looking for international ICT integrators, willing to cooperate under license agreement.

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