Charles Sternberg, Associate Editor05.09.22
Valley Children’s Healthcare , Innovation Lab, and RedCrow will host the second-annual virtual Pediatric Innovation Startup Demo Day on May 19, 2022, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. PDT.
“We are excited to showcase some extraordinary companies that are advancing products to solve big problems for the smallest patients and their families,” said Darla Rigg, manager of George’s Idea Lab at Valley Children’s Healthcare. “We will also display two ways that Valley Children's is leveraging innovation to solve internal challenges, as well as a pediatric medical device being developed by Innovation Lab.”
Little Journey is an award-winning digital platform designed to support children (and their parents) undergoing healthcare procedures. It psychologically prepares children (aged 3-12 years) and their families before, during, and after healthcare interactions, all from the comfort and safety of their own home through immersive, gamified content. The platform consists of a patient-facing smartphone application (app) that delivers age tailored virtual tours, educational animations, distraction and therapeutic games, and an accompanying web-based portal (accessed by healthcare staff) enabling them to control and configure the content and review data. The platform has been rapidly adopted across the NHS and shown to reduce pre procedure anxiety by 32%, leading to reduced costs for healthcare organizations such as lowering the use of premedication by 22% and on the day cancellations by 42%, as well as improving patient experience.
LovedBy/Nudg
Nudg is a data-driven short-form engagement platform for children and adolescents managing a chronic condition. Nudg connects easily to wearable devices like Dexcom’s Continuous Glucose Monitor and personalizes short bursts (nudges) of engaging educational content.
NICUtrition/Astarte Medical
Astarte Medical is a precision medicine company using software and predictive analytics to improve health outcomes for vulnerable patients, particularly children. With an initial focus on the tiniest of these patients, preterm infants, it has developed NICUtrition, a platform that supports feeding protocols, practices, and decision-making in the neonatal ICU (NICU) with a suite of digital tools designed to standardize the practice of feeding and optimize nutrition. The NutritionIQ engine, which is the framework for NICUtrition, can be leveraged across pediatrics to patients where optimal nutrition can improve procedure recovery, quality of life, and long-term outcomes of conditions or disease.
SmileyScope
Smileyscope is a leading pioneer in virtual reality (VR) therapeutics focused on managing pain and anxiety for patients. The company's VR headset and proprietary technology, known as Procedural Choreography, replaces negative real-world stimuli with positive VR stimuli resulting in significant reduction in pain and anxiety. As reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, their system offers 60% reductions in pain and 40% reductions in anxiety for some of the most common medical procedures.
Xploro Health
Xploro is a disease agnostic and clinically validated patient engagement platform that uses augmented reality, gameplay and an artificially intelligent Avatar Guide to deliver health information to young patients, reducing the stress and anxiety associated with hospitalization, improving health literacy and fostering better engagement with health services. It started with children with cancer, but it’s building a health information platform for any patient, of any age, with any condition, anywhere in the world.
See how the Valley Children's Healthcare innovation team is partnering with Harloff and Medline to make an existing product even better.
George's Pass (Valley Children's Healthcare)
George’s Pass is a program developed by Valley Children’s Healthcare to help improve care and ease the stress of the hospital experience for children with autism spectrum disorder and sensory issues. This program is provided by a multidisciplinary team that uses evidence-based strategies to evaluate and address a child’s individualized needs and is expanding to community partners, including the Chaffee Zoo in Fresno
Move-D (CHOC Children’s)
MOVE-D is a novel, simple but elegant, mechanical elbow brace that stabilizes tremors in the dominant upper extremity for essential tremor and pediatric ataxic cerebral palsy to improve the performance of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs).
“We are excited to showcase some extraordinary companies that are advancing products to solve big problems for the smallest patients and their families,” said Darla Rigg, manager of George’s Idea Lab at Valley Children’s Healthcare. “We will also display two ways that Valley Children's is leveraging innovation to solve internal challenges, as well as a pediatric medical device being developed by Innovation Lab.”
Companies That Will Be Showcased
Little JourneyLittle Journey is an award-winning digital platform designed to support children (and their parents) undergoing healthcare procedures. It psychologically prepares children (aged 3-12 years) and their families before, during, and after healthcare interactions, all from the comfort and safety of their own home through immersive, gamified content. The platform consists of a patient-facing smartphone application (app) that delivers age tailored virtual tours, educational animations, distraction and therapeutic games, and an accompanying web-based portal (accessed by healthcare staff) enabling them to control and configure the content and review data. The platform has been rapidly adopted across the NHS and shown to reduce pre procedure anxiety by 32%, leading to reduced costs for healthcare organizations such as lowering the use of premedication by 22% and on the day cancellations by 42%, as well as improving patient experience.
LovedBy/Nudg
Nudg is a data-driven short-form engagement platform for children and adolescents managing a chronic condition. Nudg connects easily to wearable devices like Dexcom’s Continuous Glucose Monitor and personalizes short bursts (nudges) of engaging educational content.
NICUtrition/Astarte Medical
Astarte Medical is a precision medicine company using software and predictive analytics to improve health outcomes for vulnerable patients, particularly children. With an initial focus on the tiniest of these patients, preterm infants, it has developed NICUtrition, a platform that supports feeding protocols, practices, and decision-making in the neonatal ICU (NICU) with a suite of digital tools designed to standardize the practice of feeding and optimize nutrition. The NutritionIQ engine, which is the framework for NICUtrition, can be leveraged across pediatrics to patients where optimal nutrition can improve procedure recovery, quality of life, and long-term outcomes of conditions or disease.
SmileyScope
Smileyscope is a leading pioneer in virtual reality (VR) therapeutics focused on managing pain and anxiety for patients. The company's VR headset and proprietary technology, known as Procedural Choreography, replaces negative real-world stimuli with positive VR stimuli resulting in significant reduction in pain and anxiety. As reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, their system offers 60% reductions in pain and 40% reductions in anxiety for some of the most common medical procedures.
Xploro Health
Xploro is a disease agnostic and clinically validated patient engagement platform that uses augmented reality, gameplay and an artificially intelligent Avatar Guide to deliver health information to young patients, reducing the stress and anxiety associated with hospitalization, improving health literacy and fostering better engagement with health services. It started with children with cancer, but it’s building a health information platform for any patient, of any age, with any condition, anywhere in the world.
Spotlights on Pediatric Healthcare Innovation
Crash Cart (Valley Children's Healthcare)See how the Valley Children's Healthcare innovation team is partnering with Harloff and Medline to make an existing product even better.
George's Pass (Valley Children's Healthcare)
George’s Pass is a program developed by Valley Children’s Healthcare to help improve care and ease the stress of the hospital experience for children with autism spectrum disorder and sensory issues. This program is provided by a multidisciplinary team that uses evidence-based strategies to evaluate and address a child’s individualized needs and is expanding to community partners, including the Chaffee Zoo in Fresno
Move-D (CHOC Children’s)
MOVE-D is a novel, simple but elegant, mechanical elbow brace that stabilizes tremors in the dominant upper extremity for essential tremor and pediatric ataxic cerebral palsy to improve the performance of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs).