Innovation Projects

Predictive Analysis of Falls – APRICA

Innodriver project by Regione Lombardia, assigned to Casa di Cura Igea through an “innovation voucher” by the company “Future Care”. The project consists in making it possible, through the Assisted Ambient Living system of the proposing company, called Looky, to predict the elderly's falls. Today the System is already able to detect the elderly's falls and give an immediate alarm.

– ongoing project

Remote stimUlation For FraiL people – RUFFLE

Innodriver project by Regione Lombardia, assigned to Casa di Cura Igea through an “innovation voucher” by the company “Grammelot”. The project aims to create a platform that allows rehabilitators and neuropsychologists to independently develop exercises for cognitive stimulation of healthy subjects at risk of cognitive decline, to be performed at home via tablet and aimed at maintaining and strengthening specific cognitive functions (in particular memory, but also attention and executive functions).

– ongoing project

Pre-commercial public procurement relating to: Rehabilitation Exoskeletons

Casa di Cura Igea has been selected by the Lombardy region as the bearer of a healthcare requirement, relating to "an exoskeletal mechatronic system", capable of managing motor rehabilitation therapy for neurological patients with upper limb motor disabilities. In detail, the device will allow the rehabilitation team to plan and the patient to perform a wide range of personalized movements, based on the performance of the individual. Furthermore, it should be able to adapt the therapy thanks to the measurement of functional recovery and the analysis of electrophysiopathological signals, obtained from Electroencephalography (EEG) and Electromyography (EMG). Finally, the system will include the action of neuromodulation techniques. The pre-commercial public procurement is developed in three phases:

• PHASE I - SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT: research and development activities are related to the design of the Innovative Solution and the development of its implementation plan.
• PHASE II - PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION: the research and development activities are aimed at creating a prototype of the Innovative Solution designed in Phase I.
• PHASE III-EXPERIMENTATION: research and development activities are aimed at testing the previously developed prototype in a real context, with the help of carefully selected patients.

Casa di Cura Igea, as a regional clinical validation center, is involved in phase II and phase III.

– ongoing project

REhAbilitation through Cognitive exercises – REACT

presented and co-financed under the Call for Proposals for Research and Innovation Ed. 2016 - Measure A - Lombardy Region. Casa di Cura Igea was asked to collaborate on the project, led by SME Lombardia, an ICT company "eLevel Communication" as a Research Center registered in the Questio system. Project aimed at studying the effectiveness of a programming platform for the creation of multimedia content of a rehabilitative-re-educational nature (Quiddis) to promote the acquisition of motor activities and the improvement of non-specific cognitive functions, also improving the quality of life of patients. As a secondary objective, the organizational impact of using this tool in a clinical context and the possibility of use in the home setting (telerehabilitation) were evaluated. On the basis of this pilot, a clinical trial was then started in August 2018, approved by the Territorial Ethics Committee of Milan Area B, Title "REACT: Re-Educational ACtivities through Technology.

– project completed

AppMONitoring and TRaining Adherenc with Chronicpatients – AMONTRACK

Project submitted and co-financed under the Call for Proposals for Research and Innovation Ed. 2017 - Measure A - Lombardy Region. Casa di Cura Igea was asked to collaborate on the project, led by the Lombard SME, ICT company "Think4Future" as a Research Center registered with the Questio system. The main purpose of the project is to test the LifeCharger (LC) App as a tool to promote Patient Engagement and support the management of therapy in Parkinson's disease, as well as to develop a specific method of monitoring symptoms reported directly by the patient. The clinical team of Casa di Cura Igea supported the technicians in developing the contents of this App, aimed at optimizing the compliance of patients suffering from chronic diseases, creating an easy-to-use tool for both patients and healthcare personnel.

– project completed

To learn more, in this video Dr. Dallera presents the project and its potential:

REHABILITY

submitted and co-financed under the Call for Proposals for Research and Innovation Ed. 2015 - Measure A - Lombardy Region. Casa di Cura Igea was asked to collaborate on the project, led by the Lombardy SME “Imaginary”, as a Research Center registered with the Questio system. Having shared the objectives and purposes aimed at the development and validation of technologies in the “health and wellbeing” sector, the research project involved the team led by Dr. Corbo in the design and testing of exergames for upper-limb motor rehabilitation in patients affected by Ictus Cerebri, subsequently starting a clinical trial in February 2017. Approved by the territorial CE Milan Area B, Title “Virtual Reality for the RIABilitazione dell'Artto Superiore dopo Ictus Cerebri (RVriabAS)”.

– project completed