A Novel ICT Assistant Solution for de-Risked Management of Insulin Dosing and Blood Glucose Levels in Hospitalized Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Informazioni relative al progetto

GlucoTab

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 743469

DOI

10.3030/743469

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 17 Novembre 2016

Data di avvio 1 Novembre 2016

Data di completamento 28 Febbraio 2017

Finanziato da

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Costo totale

€ 71 429,00

Contributo UE

€ 50 000,00

Coordinato da

DECIDE CLINICAL SOFTWARE GMBH
Austria

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GlucoTab (A Novel ICT Assistant Solution for de-Risked Management of Insulin Dosing and Blood Glucose Levels in Hospitalized Patients with Type 2 Diabetes)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2016-11-01 al 2017-02-28

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

Up to 30% of patients admitted to hospital suffer from type 2 diabetes. The therapy and the insulin dosing must be individualized per patient, making the diabetes treatment an enormous challenge for the health system. Current diabetes therapy in hospital wards often still relies on paper charts, which often has gaps, is hard to read and forces the user to perform necessary calculations manually. Existing electronic patient record system are not built to handle the arduous decision-making process of diabetes management, which requires up to date monitoring of glucose levels. In addition, these systems due to regulatory reasons cannot perform complex calculations. Thus, hospital staff is saturated, responsibilities on decisions are not clear and nearly one in three hospital patients with diabetes are affected by errors. Hence type 2 diabetes patients suffer from reported serious complications: increased infection rate, respiratory and acute renal failure, longer hospital length of stay and even death.
GlucoTab® is an ICT based software that offers a complete electronic record focusing on blood glucose, provides guidance on the most suitable insulin dosing therapy with dose calculation and assists on the arduous decision-making process for the daily management of type 2 diabetes. Thus, it standardizes task management, eases the personnel’s work-flow, reduces risks of serious complications and hereby health system costs.
The overall objectives of the Phase 1 were the commercial, technical and financial viability of GlucoTab® to confirm the feasibility of further development.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

We have performed a market analysis to verify the commercial potential and to support our market activities, a global Freedom-To-Operate analysis and Intellectual Property management strategy. From the technical viability, we have a complete execution plan for the Phase 2 project, including planning, organization, risk analysis and budget.
From our financial viability plan, we estimate a total investment for 2-years Phase 2 project over € 1.8 million, a maximum cash flow need of € 2 million in year 2019, being € 1.8 million from project needs and €0.2 million, from commercialization financial needs of the first years.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

GlucoTab® automatically calculates appropriate insulin doses and clinical pilot trials already showed that glucose control is improved without increasing dangerous hypoglycemic episodes. The built-in workflow management features reduce the risk of errors and the patient stay costs. Considering the direct cost/complication, GlucoTab can generate yearly savings of up to 4 times the first year investment costs.
In turn, GlucoTab® will generate revenues of €12.8 million after five years of commercialization. We aim to achieve these estimated sales thanks to the creation of 9 positions, including IT Engineers and our sales force.

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