Project description
A turning point in chronic wound care
The pain and challenges of chronic wounds affect more than 12 million people worldwide, creating an enormous burden on healthcare systems. These persistent wounds demand prolonged attention. The current approach to managing chronic wounds involves frequent medical assessments, with patients enduring discomfort and uncertainty. The traditional measurement method, employing a ruler directly inserted into the wound, yields unreliable results and prolonged agony. The EU-funded ChroWoDoc project introduces a device equipped with cameras and AI. It can autonomously analyse seven wound parameters without touching the wound. This advancement allows for quicker, painless and precise wound assessment, benefiting both patients and healthcare systems. The ChroWoDoc device reduces examination time by 60 %.
Objective
More than 12 million people worldwide suffer from chronic wounds. These open wounds need to be treated in the long term, resulting in annual costs of €27 billion. The treatment of chronic wounds is based on recurring medical examinations at intervals of 4 weeks, which include photographic documentation and a measurement of the wound. According to the current state of the art, this is simply done with a ruler, whereby the ruler is often inserted directly into the wound to assess the depth of the wound. This method not only leads to unreliable and non-reproducible results. It also takes up to 30 min. and is associated with massive pain for patients. To provide patients with relief and efficiently support wound healing, cureVision has developed a unique primary care device that enables fast and accurate documentation and analysis of chronic wounds. Our device contains multiple cameras and detectors that fully automatical analyse seven critical parameters without touching the wound itself. In addition to the wound dimensions, the integrated AI also automatically and reliably analyses the tissue components of the wound (%). Thus, for the first time, our mobile primary care device enables fast and accurate assessment for every wound to enable clinicians to adjust the therapy early. In addition to the significantly more comfortable, non-invasive examination for the patient, our device reduces the examination time by up to 60 %. The optimised therapy will reduce both treatment time and hospitalisation rates, resulting in annual cost savings of over € 40 million in Germany alone. After producing a first working MVP, we now want to produce 50 final MVPs to test and verify the functions under real conditions and make adjustments based on user feedback. Before we go to market, our device must be approved as a medical product. In addition, we will set up a reliable data protection management system. These final steps are to be achieved within the outline of the present project.
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02
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80992 Munchen
Germany
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