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EnableRx
EnableRx – Enabling technologies for next generation medical diagnostics
Our Mission: EnableRx is an organization dedicated to creating innovative, low-cost, modular, scalable and interoperable telemedicine solutions that can be implemented across the planet and in space applications. Our goal is to provide medical diagnostic and device solutions that take advantage of the internet, cloud computing and current and next generation blue-tooth technologies.
Strategic Summary: EnableRx will build and scale the applications appropriate to the market. In developing nations, our primary target includes pregnant women living in impoverished conditions and their caregivers including physicians, nurses and midwives. The most important markers ...
Close At Hand
There are over 2 million wheelchair users in the United States, the vast majority of whom use manual wheelchairs. While development of manual chairs in areas such as weight and comfort have continued, development for convenience and utility have languished.
Consideration for how an individual carries all of the things that able bodied people take for granted: cell phones, computers, cameras, keys, and wallets/purses, has been confined to 'accessory' products. Many wheelchair users choose to carry less or are forced to use awkward, or even dangerous, solutions such as backpacks to carry their items. Backpacks require strenuous and uncomfortable ...
Standing Support System for Surgeons
Standing Support System: In the practice of surgery, dentistry and other clinical procedures which require long periods of standing while intently focused on the critical task at hand there is a well understood need to provide a means of reducing the strain associated with leaning, bending, holding one’s arms extended and even standing unsupported in one place for several hours at a time without periods of rest or the opportunity to change positions without impairment of access, reach or vantage.
The invention integrates dynamic arm rest supports with additional supports for various portions of the body. There are no ...
Speech and Touch Based Smart Home Infrastructure
Project description:
This project is a creative work focused on designing an intelligent living space for the physically challenged with advanced control over various entities around. In this project we present an integrated system that uses both Voice and Touch as a natural input to provide user-friendly access to information and entertainment devices, other electrical appliances installed in a real home environment.
The crux of the system is based on the localization technique implementation through ARM processor and voice recognizing IC-ISD5108/ISD2560/75/90/120 or we can use HM2007 with the help of which the system understands its local position and acts ...
InflataCorset
Sensory Processing Disorder [SPD] is a neurological condition wherein people have difficulties with taking in, processing, and responding to sensory information about the environment and from within the own bodies. This type of neurological misalignment is known to affect a large range of people from attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, hypersensitivity, to those with hypo-sensitivities such as autism. SPD is a growing issue: Twenty-five years ago it was estimated that 5-10% of children were affected. Currently 12-30% children are diagnosed with SPD.
This project was an investigation into wearable technologies that might be used in therapeutic regimes for people ...
Tourni-Tie
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – TOURNIQUET COUPING DEVICE
The Tourniquet Coupling Device was designed from the perspective of patient comfort, patient safety, ease of use, disposability and low cost. All of these objectives have been met – thus dramatically enhancing the use of disposable latex and latex-free tourniquets.
TECHNOLOGY: The device was designed to be a molded part using FDA approved material for noninvasive medical devices. The device is also ambidextrous, allowing equally efficient use by both right and left handed end users. Further, the device was designed with no moving parts and is of a size to allow for mass ...
Lever Propelled Wheelchair
The first wheel based chair was developed by the Chinese in 525 AD. This was slightly crude but established the fact that people could in fact propel themselves from point A to B without the use of their legs.
King Phillip of Spain refined the chair design in 1595 using four wheels of the same diameter and a servant to handle the actual propulsion.
And finally, Herbert Everest patented a folding wheelchair resembling the modern configuration we are all familiar with today. This was designed to be easily transported in a car which is an ironic fact considering that ...
Multifunctional Dental Apparatus
A mobile multifunctional dental apparatus comprising: a generally rectangular shaped outer casing having a front wall, a rear wall, sidewalls, a floor. An interior compartment. A hinged lid, a plurality of wheels and an electrical coupling device, the front wall including a plurality of switches and a lighted screen, a plurality of hoses each having a first end positioned through the outer casing and a second end including a handle control, each handle control including a device to permit activation and deactivation thereof; in the interior compartment being divided into a plurality of levels by at least one divide ...
Biometric RFID Adhesive Bandages
During the course of an illness it is important to monitor the vital signs of a patient to track their progress. In most clinical situations this information can be gathered by doctors or nurses, but there are a variety of electronic monitoring devices to aid in this task. Many, if not most, of these devices rely on wired sensors to detect electrical rhythms in the body, pulse, temperature, and other metrics. While these devices offer invaluable aid, they are subject to some limitations. When a patient is connected to these machines their mobility is limited, and in some cases ...
MultiKeratome Eye Surgery - Best Sealing/Astigmatism
PURPOSE:
(1) To determine the optimum corneal incision that provides the best sealing abilities with minimum induced astigmatism.
(2) To compare the engineering analysis of the MultiKeratome, a keratome that is curved or arched with multiple points, for a diamond blade with that of a stainless steel blade.
METHODS:
(1) An engineering analysis is performed.
• A curved keratome cuts a curved cornea more evenly while creating
1. a frown incision parallel to the iris plane that is known to minimize the astigmatism, and
2. a thinner internal flap that more readily closes under ...
Automated Wheelchair
In the present world the cost of production of powered wheelchairs is so high that people never afford to buy those wheelchairs especially in the under developed countries. So, we have come up with this economical powered multipurpose wheel chair named as Automated Wheelchair. The basic idea of this automated wheelchair is to serve people with multiple disabilities i.e. the people who are both visually challenged and also physically challenged. They can use this wheelchair to navigate from one place to other automatically without any difficulty. The navigation of the wheelchair is taken care off by the automation program ...
Portable Baterial Detector
Introduction, A fast and efficient method to detect dangerous bacteria is a very important need. A bacterial outbreak such as E. coli and salmonella causes illness and even death.
By using a CCD camera, LEDs and a modified face detection algorithm, a low cost and portable device can be built that save hundreds of lives per year.
The present method used to detect bacteria is time-consuming and not very reliable in preventing outbreaks. At present, samples are taken to a lab, prepared and test it. The results could take days while food shipments continue. Testing is done infrequently and ...
Hamstrings Rolling Weight Exercise Machine
Innovation: The Hamstrings Rolling Weight Exercise Machine is a very simple but efficient piece of equipment that aids people to shape or tone primarily the hamstrings muscles and the outer and inner calf’s and to a lesser degree the quadriceps, abductors, and interior and posterior tibialis. The exercise machine consists of but just a few pieces of equipment:
1. The track or guiding rail.
2. The rolling weights and support bar with or without bicycle pedals (optional) attached.
3. A common office chair or computer chair with a lever to change the seating height for persons with average leg length and ...
Optical Microscanners for Miniature Endoscopes
Endoscopes are widely used for diagnosis in human internal organs, but conventional endoscopes can only collect surface information. Thus, biopsy is often needed. Newly-developed endoscopes that employ optical coherence and scanning micromirrors can be used to replace risky, painful and time-consuming biopsy, for bio-imaging applications such as early cancer detection in internal organs, and artery imaging for diagnostic and intraoperative procedures. For imaging internal organs, small endoscope probes are desirable. Illustration:1 depicts schematics of a conventional micromirror and an endoscope. An endoscope’s ability to probe obscure parts of the body is limited by its size. We propose micromirrors that ...
Neonatal Transport Backpack
There are currently 224 nations of the world who are listed in the infant mortality rate posted by the CIA World Fact Book. Only 71 of which are under the 10 infant deaths per 1000 live births and Angola who is number 224 experiences 180.21 deaths per every 1000 live births. The need for neonatal transport is an issue faced by the entire world. For developed countries (such as the U.S.), this problem is solved by purchasing high tech transport incubators that are expensive to produce and purchase.
The neonatal transport backpack was developed to provide safe transport for ...
Aortic Calcification Elimination System
Technical and marketing information relating to J & M’s newly developed electrolytic, magnet ACES device. Aces stands for Aortic Calcification Elimination System. J & M Associates has technical knowledge in engineering, and new materials for various power supplies and antenna applications, which would facilitate safely dissolving calcification deposits in the human body by noninvasive means.
The basic concept of the device is certain RF and electromagnet radiation is applied to the plaque area by an inductor coil placed around the patient’s body or body part to be treated. This procedure is very similar to getting an x-ray treatment ...
αScreen Fast and Cheap Bacteria Detection
Every year food-borne bacteria cause thousands infections in humans and animals. Outbreaks of E.Coli and Salmonella commonly occur in meat, vegetables and processed food products. The most recent and the deadliest recorded E.Coli outbreak caused 39 deaths and over 3500 reported cases of poisoning in May and June 2011 in Germany. An effective method for disease detection and prevention is still missing, mostly due to long incubation times and a high operation cost associated with conventional methods. The most widely used method for bacteria detection, the standard plate count, takes from 24 to 48 hours, due to the time ...
Portable Bidet
Portable bidet is a small nozzle that attaches to a plastic bottle and transforms it to a fully functional, personal bidet. The nozzle provides a convenient and time-saving alternative to the exclusive use of toilet paper, cumbersome and expensive bidets, a watering canteen or showering after using the washroom.
Portable bidet device presented herein is aiming to educate and promote washroom hygiene and to allow users with such needs to comfortably and discretely perform the required hygienic practices and preserve the fresh feeling anytime and anywhere during the day.
Approximately 2 years ago I was approached by a friend ...
Megadose Vitamin Therapy for Acute HIV Exposure
HIV is known to be a virus that is very sensitive in both temperature changes or pH changes in the host environment or when exposed to atmospheric conditions.
Acute exposure experienced by surgeons or people who are exposed voluntary or by accident to HIV enriched bodily fluids are likely to contract HIV and need to be treated with combo ARV treatment or single drug treatment to lengthen the onset of AIDS.
Currently to treat a squirt of HIV positive blood that enters a surgeon's eye, an administration of prophylactic ARV drugs is administered for 30 - 60 days after ...
Mobile Dental Bracket Table
The practice of dentistry exposes dental professionals to a variety of work-related hazards.
These include:
• Working long hours at a high level of concentration
• Working in a sedentary state
• Working with anxious patients
Other hazards:
• The need to work in a fixed working position using a continuous repetitive motion can predispose the clinical dental worker to wrist ache, lower back ache and neck ache
• New ideas are required to reduce or eliminate the occupational hazard•
The mobile dental bracket table is a solution to help reduce physical effort made by a dental team, ...
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