2016 8th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC), 2016
Wearable devices have garnered increased attention over the past years by the sports industry, mi... more Wearable devices have garnered increased attention over the past years by the sports industry, military, and general public for everyday use. Technological advancements have enabled athletes, sports teams, soldiers, and physicians to track functional movements, workload, biometric and bio-vital markers to maximize performance and safety while minimizing the potential for injury or accidents. Wearable monitoring systems can provide continuous physiological data thus enabling accurate treatment plans and specific recovery programs. Herein, we present a review of the wearable sensors field in sports and emergency medicine and highlight our current work and collaborations which bridge academia, healthcare professionals, sports team physicians, Life Flight operations, and ED/trauma operations. A key outcome of this work is the identification of crosscutting themes that indicate critical path items for future research.
Elite-level athletes and professional sports teams are continually searching for opportunities to... more Elite-level athletes and professional sports teams are continually searching for opportunities to improve athletic performance and gain a competitive advantage on the field. Advances in technology have provided new avenues to maximize player health and safety. Over the last decade, time?motion analysis systems, such as video recording and computer digitization, have been used to measure human locomotion and improve sports performance. While these techniques were state of the art at the time, their usefulness is inhibited by the questionable validity of the acquired data, the labor-intensive nature of collecting data with manual hand-notation techniques, and their inability to track athlete position, movement, displacement, and velocity.
Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for t... more Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for traditional search engines. Critical care in remote (e.g., battle field) and rural settings not only requires access to clinical guidelines and medical libraries with surgical precision but also with minimal user effort and time. Our development of a graphical, anatomy-driven navigator called Visual Navigator for Surgical Information Access (VINSIA) fulfills the goal for providing evidence-based clinical decision support, specifically in perioperative and critical care settings, to allow rapid and precise information access through a portable stand-alone system. It comes with a set of unique characteristics: (a) a high precision, interactive visual interface driven by human anatomy; (b) direct linkage of anatomical structures to associated content such as clinical guidelines, literature, and medical libraries; and (c) an administrative content management interface allowing only an accredited, expert-level curator to edit and update the clinical content to ensure accuracy and currency. We believe that the deployment of VINSIA will improve quality, safety, and evidence-based standardization of patient care.
Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for t... more Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for traditional search engines. Critical care in remote (e.g., battle field) and rural settings not only requires access to clinical guidelines and medical libraries with surgical precision but also with minimal user effort and time. Our development of a graphical, anatomy-driven navigator called Visual Navigator for Surgical Information Access (VINSIA) fulfills the goal for providing evidence-based clinical decision support, specifically in perioperative and critical care settings, to allow rapid and precise information access through a portable stand-alone system. It comes with a set of unique characteristics: (a) a high precision, interactive visual interface driven by human anatomy; (b) direct linkage of anatomical structures to associated content such as clinical guidelines, literature, and medical libraries; and (c) an administrative content management interface allowing only an accredited, expert-level curator to edit and update the clinical content to ensure accuracy and currency. We believe that the deployment of VINSIA will improve quality, safety, and evidence-based standardization of patient care.
2016 8th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC), 2016
Wearable devices have garnered increased attention over the past years by the sports industry, mi... more Wearable devices have garnered increased attention over the past years by the sports industry, military, and general public for everyday use. Technological advancements have enabled athletes, sports teams, soldiers, and physicians to track functional movements, workload, biometric and bio-vital markers to maximize performance and safety while minimizing the potential for injury or accidents. Wearable monitoring systems can provide continuous physiological data thus enabling accurate treatment plans and specific recovery programs. Herein, we present a review of the wearable sensors field in sports and emergency medicine and highlight our current work and collaborations which bridge academia, healthcare professionals, sports team physicians, Life Flight operations, and ED/trauma operations. A key outcome of this work is the identification of crosscutting themes that indicate critical path items for future research.
Elite-level athletes and professional sports teams are continually searching for opportunities to... more Elite-level athletes and professional sports teams are continually searching for opportunities to improve athletic performance and gain a competitive advantage on the field. Advances in technology have provided new avenues to maximize player health and safety. Over the last decade, time?motion analysis systems, such as video recording and computer digitization, have been used to measure human locomotion and improve sports performance. While these techniques were state of the art at the time, their usefulness is inhibited by the questionable validity of the acquired data, the labor-intensive nature of collecting data with manual hand-notation techniques, and their inability to track athlete position, movement, displacement, and velocity.
Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for t... more Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for traditional search engines. Critical care in remote (e.g., battle field) and rural settings not only requires access to clinical guidelines and medical libraries with surgical precision but also with minimal user effort and time. Our development of a graphical, anatomy-driven navigator called Visual Navigator for Surgical Information Access (VINSIA) fulfills the goal for providing evidence-based clinical decision support, specifically in perioperative and critical care settings, to allow rapid and precise information access through a portable stand-alone system. It comes with a set of unique characteristics: (a) a high precision, interactive visual interface driven by human anatomy; (b) direct linkage of anatomical structures to associated content such as clinical guidelines, literature, and medical libraries; and (c) an administrative content management interface allowing only an accredited, expert-level curator to edit and update the clinical content to ensure accuracy and currency. We believe that the deployment of VINSIA will improve quality, safety, and evidence-based standardization of patient care.
Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for t... more Information access at the point of care presents a different set of requirements than those for traditional search engines. Critical care in remote (e.g., battle field) and rural settings not only requires access to clinical guidelines and medical libraries with surgical precision but also with minimal user effort and time. Our development of a graphical, anatomy-driven navigator called Visual Navigator for Surgical Information Access (VINSIA) fulfills the goal for providing evidence-based clinical decision support, specifically in perioperative and critical care settings, to allow rapid and precise information access through a portable stand-alone system. It comes with a set of unique characteristics: (a) a high precision, interactive visual interface driven by human anatomy; (b) direct linkage of anatomical structures to associated content such as clinical guidelines, literature, and medical libraries; and (c) an administrative content management interface allowing only an accredited, expert-level curator to edit and update the clinical content to ensure accuracy and currency. We believe that the deployment of VINSIA will improve quality, safety, and evidence-based standardization of patient care.
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