Re-inventing pre-hospital diagnostics of brain and spine injurie

Current traditional brain health diagnostic procedures, like MRI and CT, are time-consuming, emit radiation, expensive, and access to the equipment and the results are time-delayed (i.e. 30-70 minutes). Importantly, patients have to be transported (sometimes over long distances) and admitted to a hospital or specialized medical center (that has the equipment and highly qualified technical and medical personnel) before they can be diagnosed with a Brain Trauma. The medical industry is beckoning a quick, reliable, and less expensive brain trauma diagnostic solution. By using PONS, allowing doctors to remotely advise paramedics treating patients at the scene or in transit. PONS integrated ambulances will improve the speed of treatment, reducing the number of patients taken to hospital and relieving strain on hospital ER resources. next-generation connectivity could free-up 10.1 million hours per year for the hospitals as well as saving cities $1B per year and decreasing overall bed occupancy rates by 6% through the adoption of wearing monitoring devices.

Head Injury (HI) is a leading cause of death and disability among the predominately young population. Ten million cases of HI are estimated per year worldwide. Annually, within the United States, there are about 2 million emergency room visits for HI, roughly 575,000 admissions for brain trauma, nearly 52,000 deaths, and approximately 80,000 cases of severe long-term disability.1 About 10% of combat injuries sustained during conventional land warfare involve HI, including skull and brain traumas. The estimated overall burden of TBI on the US economy was approximately $76.5B(CDC), with costs for disability and lost productivity outweighing those for acute medical care and rehabilitation. The annual costs of TBI care are over $400B according to the study of the European Brain Injury Consortium. TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) causes more death and disability than any other trauma-related injury and affects an estimate of 69 million people worldwide each year. an estimated 69.0 million (95% CI 64.2–73.8 million) people worldwide will suffer TBI each year. PONS will help to reduce overcrowding in the ER and reduce the cost of unnecessary use of CT and MRIs by 25%

Current traditional brain health diagnostic procedures, like MRI and CT, are time-consuming, emit radiation, expensive, and access to the equipment and the results are time-delayed (i.e. 30-70 minutes). Importantly, patients have to be transported (sometimes over long distances) and admitted to a hospital or specialized medical center (that has the equipment and highly qualified technical and medical personnel) before they can be diagnosed with a Brain Trauma. The medical industry is beckoning a quick, reliable, and less expensive brain trauma diagnostic solution. Detect + Quantify + Predict The next stage in the evolution of AI solutions for medical imaging is expected to be the addition of predictive analysis, in addition, to detect and/or quantify. PONS solutions offer real-time diagnostic decision support, such as the likelihood of malignancy (following lesion/nodule detection and quantification), or a differential diagnosis (based on a confidence score), leading to earlier detection and diagnosis. PONS solutions will enable doctors, surgeons, field medics, and radiologists to prioritize their focus on cases of greater clinical need and to determine with greater confidence whether follow-up invasive procedures (for example, biopsy) are required. Although the final diagnosis will require the radiologist’s or doctor's own judgment, predictive analysis will greatly enhance the value of AI solutions to doctors, surgeons, field medics, and radiologists both inside and outside the hospital.