ARPA-H ARPA-H-SOL-24-02: 2024 Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed and InteGrated Medical Care (PARADIGM)

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1. J.M. Roveda (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences) -- TA Pending
2. J.M. Roveda (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences) -- TA Pending
3. S.  Adhikari (Emergency Medicine) -- TA5: Intelligent Task Guidance.

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The Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed and InteGrated Medical Care (PARADIGM) program aims to address the current challenges in rural health by creating a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. Building on recent developments in fields ranging from satellite communication to medical device miniaturization, this mobile care platform will allow health providers to meet rural patients where they are.  

In order to create a platform that can bring sophisticated medical services to the doorstep of rural populations, PARADIGM will focus on five technical areas: 1) designing distributed hospital-level care, 2) producing an integrated care delivery platform, 3) harmonizing diverse medical device data within a single system, 4) building a miniaturized, ruggedized CT scanner, and 5) creating intelligent task guidance software to help health workers perform activities beyond their usual training.  

If successful, PARADIGM hopes to develop a mobile platform capable of delivering many different types of cutting-edge services – including multi-cancer screenings, hemodialysis, perinatal care, and much more. With medical technology no longer tied to a specific place – but instead available on a platform that can travel to even the most remote locations – rural patients will thus be able to access the care that they need within their own communities. 

Technical Areas (TAs):

• TA1: Decentralized Approach to Hospital-Level Care. Provide clinical care in a CDP that is currently only available in a hospital, and evaluate the clinical effectiveness, financial sustainability, and patient/staff user acceptability of CDP-based care.
• TA2: Care Delivery Platform Integration. Develop a multipurpose scalable CDP to deliver advanced care outside the walls of a hospital.
• TA3: Medical Internet of Things (IoT) Platform. Develop a low-cost software platform that enables seamless data ingestion, normalization, and translation between common medical devices and commercial or open-source EHR.
• TA4: Rugged & Miniaturized CT Scanner. Fundamentally redesign and miniaturize a CT scanner for use in out-of-hospital settings to enable utilization of this essential imaging modality in remote rural populations.
• TA5: Intelligent Task Guidance. Develop and equip CDP staff with an easy-to-use and interactive intelligent task guidance system that will provide real-time task guidance and decision support and turn a generalist into a just-in-time specialist