KidsX Pediatric Members Innovation Exchange

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

Many children and adults who use wheelchairs, and other seating and mobility devices(strollers, walkers, standers car seats etc.), lack head control and are unable to hold their heads upright to various extents. This condition results in physical difficulties with breathing, feeding, and swallowing, while an inability to maintain an upright position and eye contact leads to social challenges and lower self-esteem.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

HEADALOFT is a versatile, simple, patented, 360 degrees head support device, comfortably supportive while allowing head movement in a nonrestrictive manner. HEADALFT attaches easily to any wheelchair, stroller, car seat or any other seating and mobility device equipped with a head rest. When the users head is upright (with HEADALOFT) breathing and eating become easier and safer. HEADALOFT also allows better eye gaze control practice thus improvement and enables in some cases more social interaction and the enjoyment of entertainment and culture. HEADALOFT is FAD registered, CE certified and can be sold in the USA and Europe.

PRODUCT PHASE:

Scale: Product is on the market and needs further support to advance and scale

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• Thought partner
• feedback, SME
• focus group
• Funding (grant, vc, etc.)
• Muti-site Research partner(s)
• Content development
• People/org to trial product
• People/org to license/purchase product

CONTACT INFO:

Avital – avital@headovations.com

Ben – ben@headovations.com

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

The Covid pandemic has highlighted the hurdles when treating patients in need of rehabilitation, both the shortage in professionals as well as encouraging the continuous practice, even from a distance. Even when professionals are present, most rehabilitation is conducted in non-technological tools, limiting the knowledge of progress and personalization of treatment.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

TakaroTech developed Qni – an interactive, AI health activity platform that can be assembled on the floor, wall or on the table. Qni was designed for optimizing personal rehabilitation through an easy to assemble, portable, versatile, data collection and analysis (through AI and Machine Learning) platform. An open SDK and Pygame platform allow the rapid development of activities for Qni by anyone.

PRODUCT PHASE:

Sell: Product is built and market ready for early adopters

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• Thought partner:
• feedback
• SME
• focus group
• Funding (grant, vc, etc.)
• Muti-site Research partner(s)
• Content development
• People/org to trial product
• People/org to license/purchase product

CONTACT INFO:

Dr. Ahmi Ben Yehudah – Ahmi@takarotech.com

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

Patients with cognitive, communicative and speech impairments are treated with tools that do not match their age. In addition, there is limited number of tools that offer content that targets patients’ specific fields of interest. Overall limited number of digital tools for OTs and SLPs . As a result, the patients’ motivation and the overall treatment effectiveness is impacted.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

Cognishine is a Smart Personalized Intervention Platform for Health Professionals (SLP’s OT’s…) and their patients designed to improve therapy. Cognishine’s therapeutic tools are all based on real life media that allows patients to easily project their learnings into their daily real-world tasks. The platforms offer thousands of ready to use sessions in different and diverse fields of interests all built by clinical expert.

PRODUCT PHASE:

Sell: Product is built and market ready for early adopters

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• Funding (grant, vc, etc.)
• Muti-site Research partner(s)
• People/org to license/purchase product
• People/org to trial product
• Thought partner: feedback
• SME
• focus group
• Content development 

CONTACT INFO:

Nimrod – nimrod.zilcha@cognishine.com,

Sagi – Sagi.karni@cognishine.com

https://cognishine.com/en-us/

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

Athletic Trainers are currently going against HIPPA/FERPA rules by simply texting their team doctor/physician about their injured athletes within the schools they work with. They also have a very slow process from the time a student gets injured, to return to play.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

Use our Virtual Team Doc tool to simultaneously cover multiple games and practice sessions. Expand your services to schools, providing virtual pre-hab / injury prevention sessions for student athletes. Our schools use R1 Quick-Refer to refer athletes with 1 click. No more copy/paste into text, e-mail, or faxing! MedOutreach also simplifies your return to play communications.

PRODUCT PHASE:

 Sell: Product is built and market ready for early adopters 

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• Thought partner
• feedback
• SME
• focus group
• Content development
• People/org to license/purchase product

CONTACT INFO:

jtodd@rankonehealth.com

jason@rankone.com

mitch.hall@childrens.com

Micky.Fokken@childrens.com

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

THERE ARE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE MORE TRADITIONAL PHYSICAL TOOLS IN THE AUDIOLOGIST’S “TOOL BOX,” INCLUDING PRINTED DRAWINGS AND PLASTIC OBJECTS, SUCH AS COOKIES, WHICH HAVE BEEN USED FOR AUDIOLOGIC TESTING FOR DECADES. THESE TRADITIONAL TOOLS CAN BE A CHALLENGE TO CLEAN FOR INFECTION CONTROL, SOMETIMES REQUIRE TWO AUDIOLOGISTS FOR THEIR USE, AND SOMETIMES HAVE CULTURALLY OUTDATED IMAGERY. IN ADDITION, THESE TOOLS ARE GENERALLY STATIC, TWO-DIMENSIONAL, AND SOMETIMES MONOCHROME; BEING GENERALLY LESS DYNAMIC, INTERACTIVE AND ATTRACTIVE AS COMPARED TO MODERN MOBILE APPS.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

DR. SHERRY RALSTON RECOGNIZED THE POTENTIAL OF MOBILE APPS IN ADDRESSING THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THESE MORE TRADITIONAL TOOLS AND INITIATED A PROGRAM OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. DR. RALSTON COLLABORATED WITH THE CHILDREN’S MERCY CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC INNOVATION AND APP DEVELOPERS TO BUILD HEARPLAY™. HEARPLAY IS AN IOS-BASED SUITE OF FUN AND ENGAGING GAMES THAT SUPPORT CONDITIONED PLAY AUDIOMETRY (CPA) FOR MEASURING SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS, AND PURE TONE THRESHOLDS, WITH CHILDREN, ON AVERAGE, FROM 2 1/2 TO 5 YEARS OF AGE AND THOSE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS.

PRODUCT PHASE:

 SELL: PRODUCT IS BUILT AND MARKET READY FOR EARLY ADOPTERS

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• PEOPLE/ORG TO LICENSE/PURCHASE PRODUCT

CONTACT INFO:

https://www.childrensmercy.org/health-care-providers/providers/provider-resources/apps-for-providers/hearplay-app/

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

There is inconsistent care for pediatric patients in non-pediatric settings, and there is evolving evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, causing a lack of comfort in pediatric care. Plus, current methods of practice guideline decision trees in pdf’s is not in clinical flow and requires a significant cognitive load.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

PedsGuide: Pediatric Decision Support app helps health care providers and emergency services personnel make diagnostic and/or treatment decisions for children facing acute illness. Users have access to step-by-step management recommendations for different acute illness scenarios that incorporate the most up-to-date evidence and expert opinion.

PRODUCT PHASE:

Sell: Product is built and market ready for early adopters

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• People/org to trial product

CONTACT INFO:

https://www.childrensmercy.org/health-care-providers/providers/provider-resources/apps-for-providers/PedsGuide-app/

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

Healthcare procurement processes and the associated supply chains are logistically onerous and costly to manage. Products often have long lead times, require costly warehousing, and are not able to be customized for specific client or operational requirements. Additionally, healthcare organizations and their staff often need rapid access to novel solutions and production systems to effectively deliver services.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

PolyUnity provides a complete Additive Manufacturing as a Service (AMaaS) solution to our health care partners & their networks. The solution offering drastically reduces the cost and complexity of traditional healthcare procurement by helping healthcare providers design, access & produce what they need, on-demand. Our product portal allows access and ordering of client approved products from our digital catalogue to be seamlessly manufactured on demand when needed. The manufacturing is completed via an onsite or regional additive manufacturing/3D printing facility which is fully managed for the client by PolyUnity. We also provide professional design services to create new products, digital twins, or product variations for use in the healthcare setting.

PRODUCT PHASE:

Test/Validate: Product is build but need further input/studies from end user groups and experts to validate an element of the product or product/market fit before going to market

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• Thought partner
• feedback
• SME
• focus group
• Funding (grant, vc, etc.)
• Muti-site Research partner(s)
• Content development
• People/org to license/purchase product

CONTACT INFO:

mark@polyunity.com

www.polyunity.com

709-701-4352

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

RECRUITING STUDY PARTICIPANTS HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE TOUGHEST CHALLENGES FOR CLINICAL RESEARCHERS. IT IS ALL TOO COMMON FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO BE RELUCTANT TO TAKE PART IN STUDIES—WHETHER IT’S DUE TO LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE BASICS OF RESEARCH, CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY OR PRIVACY, OR OTHER ISSUES. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE FOR RACIAL/ETHNIC POPULATIONS, AS WELL AS PEDIATRIC POPULATIONS, WHO REMAIN UNDER-REPRESENTED IN LIFE SAVING CLINICAL TRIALS RESEARCH.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

IN RESPONSE, WE DEVELOPED ZIPPY, AN ANIMATED ROBOT CHARACTER THAT CHILDREN AND ADULTS CAN CONVERSE WITH—CURRENTLY, VIA A MICROSOFT SURFACE TABLET COMPUTER—TO LEARN ABOUT CLINICAL RESEARCH, AND BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE INVOLVED IN A RESEARCH STUDY. IN EFFECT, ZIPPY IS DESIGNED TO TAKE PEOPLE ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE RESEARCH PROCESS, AND IDEALLY, ALL THE WAY TO ENROLLING THEM IN AN ACTUAL STUDY. USERS CAN ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE CLINICAL RESEARCH PROCESS, AND ZIPPY CAN ANSWER VERBALLY, USING EVERYDAY TERMINOLOGY THAT KIDS AND LAYPEOPLE CAN UNDERSTAND.

PRODUCT PHASE:

TEST/VALIDATE: PRODUCT IS BUILD BUT NEED FURTHER INPUT/STUDIES FROM END USER GROUPS AND EXPERTS TO VALIDATE AN ELEMENT OF THE PRODUCT OR PRODUCT/MARKET FIT BEFORE GOING TO MARKET

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• Thought partner
• feedback
• SME
• Focus group
• Funding (grant, vc, etc.)
• People/org to license/purchase product

CONTACT INFO:

mkipke@chla.usc.edu;

https://www.chla.org/zippy-the-virtual-research-navigator

PROBLEM BEING ADDRESSED:

Families of high-risk infants often manage medical and developmental needs above and beyond what is required for a healthy full-term infant, for months or even years after neonatal discharge.For example, parents must transport their child to therapies such as early intervention programs, communicate with the child’s pediatrician and other healthcare providers, and are often responsible for daily tasks such as administering medications. Families with high-risk infants face multiple difficulties in meeting their child’s health needs after discharge.

SOLUTION DEVELOPED:

We developed an mHealth application called “Baby Steps LA” that serves as a VTP. Baby Steps LA (available in English and Spanish for Android and IOS users) was informed by focus groups with families and neonatal providers. It provides medical information, resources, task lists, and a “wellness” page that has resources for families and an option to build a profile and participate in a moderated online support group.

PRODUCT PHASE:

Refine: Concept, wireframe, or prototype stage, looking for a partner to bounce ideas off of or with whom to collaborate

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF SUPPORT OR COLLABORATION:

• Funding (grant, vc, etc.);Muti-site Research partner(s)

CONTACT INFO:

alakshmanan@chla.usc.edu