The Future of Medicine: Health Make-a-Thon Winners Design Transformative Solutions - Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Four teams of doc innovators won enactment to beforehand their ideas for caller exertion to amended diligent outcomes successful the future, arsenic portion of Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s (CI MED’s) Fall Health Make-a-Thon. The caller patient-centered innovations were projected by aesculapian students and students from The Grainger College of Engineering, machine subject students, assemblage members, and wellness attraction providers. Their technological innovations are aimed astatine improving diligent care, monitoring, and processes some successful the infirmary and for outpatients. The solutions were calved astatine Carle Illinois’ Fifth Annual Fall Health Make-a-Thon contention – a design-and-pitch contention organized by the Health Maker Lab, aimed astatine advancing quality wellness and wellness care.

Teams of aesculapian innovators were tasked with addressing a peculiar objective occupation identified by practicing clinicians astatine either Carle Health oregon the Mayo Clinic. Four proposals were selected arsenic winners by a sheet of judges known arsenic the Dolphin Tank. The winning ideas are listed below:

Hydrocephamates' plan for a Bluetooth instrumentality would usage micromechanical hair-like sensors to observe and monitor CSF travel successful patients with shunts.

1^st Place winning $5000
Hydrocephamates (problem connection from Mayo Clinic)

The Hydrocephamates squad proposes a caller bluetooth instrumentality to show and trouble-shoot problems with the travel of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) successful patients with ventricular shunts. Patients with hydrocephalus (excess fluid connected the brain) request these peculiar shunts to drain disconnected fluid into the abdominal cavity, relieving perchance harmful unit connected the brain. Currently, the lone mode to cheque the shunt for fluid travel problems involves surgery. The team’s innovation is simply a caller instrumentality using micromechanical hairsbreadth sensors patterned disconnected the hairs successful the receptor canal to continuously show fluid travel and assistance find if/when the shunt needs to beryllium removed oregon replaced.

Participants: Megan Amber Lim (CI MED), Jaya Ganapathi (Engineering), Megan Blomberg (Engineering), Hailey Waltenburg (Engineering), and Daniella Chapman (Engineering).

2^nd Place winning $3000
ACTFast (problem connection from Carle Health)

This team’s caller Activated Clotting Time (ACTFast) trial would supply adjacent real-time humor monitoring for patients being treated with anticoagulants during cardiac and radiologic procedures. The trial passes a laser done the patient’s humor illustration to make an representation showing however overmuch the humor has clotted truthful far. A machine-learning algorithm calculates and periodically updates the Activated Clotting Time truthful clinicians tin set anticoagulant therapy successful existent clip during these procedures to forestall monolithic humor loss.

Participants: Brian Wadugu (CI MED), Sharon Newton (Engineering), Divya Bendigeri (Engineering), Soundarya Sivakumar, Priya Kumar (Engineering), and Mobeen Haider (Carle nonmigratory physician).

Mukul Govande brainstorms with his squad YANA connected a wearable instrumentality to assistance forestall overdose successful opioid users.

3^rd Place (tie teams each triumph $1000)
YANA [You Are Not Alone]  (problem connection from Carle Health)

Team YANA envisioned a caller wearable instrumentality to assistance combat opioid overdose successful caller patients oregon opioid users astatine precocious hazard for overdose. Their innovation would measurement physiological information to observe the anticipation of an overdose. The plan incorporates a pulse oximeter, Bluetooth and kinetic charging capabilities, and impedance electrodes that would provender information into a bundle platform. The instrumentality would awesome bystanders and let them to intervene with NARCAN oregon telephone 911 for assistance successful lawsuit of an overdose.

Participants: Edward Liang (CI MED), Mihir Patil (CI MED), Mukul Govande (CI MED), Shrey Patel (CI MED), Vedant Jain (CI MED), Uditha Velidandla (Engineering), and Mikal Karim (Community Member).

NexumFlow (problem connection from Mayo Clinic)

NexumFlow designed a caller valve to assistance dainty patients with hydrocephalus by continuously monitoring the outflow of cerebral spinal fluid from a ventricular shunt and automatically relay immoderate abnormal readings to the hospital’s physics aesculapian grounds system. The caller valve would beryllium encased successful titanium, truthful it would beryllium compatible with communal neurological imaging techniques including MRI and CT scans.

Participants: Dennison Min (CI MED), Sanskruthi Priya Guduri (CI MED), Zahra Adamji (Engineering), Christopher George (Engineering), Jaz Przybylowicz, and Walker Rickord (Engineering).

"Engagement of Carle Health residents/providers and assemblage members provided vastly antithetic but invaluable position to each of the teams during the brainstorming sessions," said Irfan Ahmad, CI MED Assistant Dean for Research.

Carle Illinois College of Medicine’s Fall Make-a-Thon — held each twelvemonth done its Health Maker Lab — challenges aboriginal doc innovators to enactment with squad members from the assemblage and different disciplines astatine the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to make innovative solutions to broad-based wellness and wellness challenges oregon wellness attraction needs. The Make-a-Thon supports Carle Illinois’ committedness to beforehand wellness attraction and democratize wellness attraction innovation.