Gait Analysis Platform for Measuring Surgery Recovery.

Gait analysis has evolved significantly during last years due to the great development of the Medical Internet of Things (MIoT) platforms that allow an easy integration of sensors (inertial, magnetic and pressure in our case) to the complex analytics required to compute, not only relevant parameters, but also meaningful indexes. In this paper, we extend a previous development based on a fully wireless pair of insoles by implementing an updated version with more reliable and user-friendly devices, smartphone app and web front-end and back-end. We also extend previous work focused on fall analysis (with the corresponding fall risk index or FRI) with the proposal of a new surgery recovery index (SRI) to account for the individual speed recovery speed that can be measured either at clinical facilities or at home in a telemedicine environment or while doing daily life activities. This new index can be personalized for different types of surgeries that affect gait such as hip, knee, etc. This paper presents the case of hip recovery and is built on top of the clinical standard SPPB test and allows obtaining quantitative parameters directly from the sensors.

SERENE-IoT Project: How the Maturation Cycle Allows the Correct Development Process of Innovative Technologies in the Healthcare Domain.

This article illustrates the maturation process of innovative technologies in the healthcare domain. The role and the involvement of the stakeholders are explained, as well their interaction in the ecosystem. We focus on how the synergy between partners improves efficiency, boosts product development and accelerates market access. The spiral of the innovation concept is introduced to illustrate the different stages ensuring the correct development of a medical technology. This iterative cycle drives the product maturation, according to medical needs and feedback, and ensures the correct implementation of the innovation in the clinical framework. We finally illustrate how the innovation process is applied to successful drive the ongoing SERENE-IoT project: the spiral of innovation concept is specifically adapted to fit with the project requirements with the final ibjective to identify a panel of medico-economic indicators and to establish the medical service delivered and the opportunities in order to capture the full benefit of the proposed technology.