I'm betting decades before it makes it to your clinic if ever. With NO strategy to roll improvements out to the medical staff, the trickle down theory might work in 100 years.
ArmSleeve: A patient monitoring system to support occupational therapists in stroke rehabilitation
Ploderer, Bernd, Fong, Justin, Withana, Anusha, Klaic, Marlena, Nair, Siddharth, Crocher, Vincent, Vetere, Frank, & Nanayakkara, Suranga
(2016)
ArmSleeve: A patient monitoring system to support occupational therapists in stroke rehabilitation. In
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, ACM, Brisbane, QLD, pp. 700-711.
Abstract
This paper describes the design of "ArmSleeve", a patient
monitoring system to support occupational therapists in their upper limb
rehabilitation work with stroke patients. Occupational therapists can
provide rehabilitation in clinics, but they have limited insights into
how much their patients use their affected arm and hand in daily life,
which is critical for effective recovery to occur. Our work addresses
this problem through three interrelated studies: (1) interviews with
therapists to examine their current rehabilitation practices; (2) the
design of the "ArmSleeve Sensor" to monitor a patient's upper limb
movement; and (3) the design and evaluation of the "ArmSleeve Dashboard"
to visualize this information for therapists. The findings show the
importance of collecting objective data to assess exercise and
activities outside therapy, but also a lack of contextual information to
interpret this data. We discuss considerations for how to address this
issue through patient engagement as well as considerations for designing
wearable sensor technology that is usable in everyday life.
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