An IoT-Based Physiotherapy Platform Driving a 70% Drop in Pain and Unneeded Surgeries
Challenge
The customer is a US-based healthcare startup focused on fully personalized remote physiotherapy. To address the drawbacks of the traditional physical rehabilitation process, its founders set out to build a digital platform for physiotherapy exercises and progress tracking that combines the best of offline and online care: the therapist first assesses the patient in person, then provides continuous online feedback and makes performance-based adjustments to the therapy program. Delivering such an advanced, wearable-based solution required a HIPAA-compliant architecture, accurate motion-sensor measurement of joint range of motion, and a seamless experience across a patient mobile app and a web app for therapists and admins. To create it, the customer needed a seasoned healthcare IT consulting and development partner and turned to INNERLUXES.
The customer is a US-based healthcare startup focused on fully personalized remote physiotherapy. To address the drawbacks of the traditional physical rehabilitation process, its founders set out to build a digital platform for physiotherapy exercises and progress tracking that combines the best of offline and online care: the therapist first assesses the patient in person, then provides continuous online feedback and makes performance-based adjustments to the therapy program. Delivering such an advanced, wearable-based solution required a HIPAA-compliant architecture, accurate motion-sensor measurement of joint range of motion, and a seamless experience across a patient mobile app and a web app for therapists and admins. To create it, the customer needed a seasoned healthcare IT consulting and development partner and turned to INNERLUXES.
Solution
INNERLUXES assembled a team of a project manager, a business analyst, a regulatory compliance consultant, a UX/UI designer, two Xamarin developers, two front-end developers, four back-end developers and a QA engineer. After market, competitor and patient research, it elicited requirements, prioritized features and designed a HIPAA-compliant architecture. The MVP was built with AngularJS and Node.js for the platform and therapist/admin web app, Xamarin for the cross-platform patient mobile app, Amazon EC2 for the back end and web app, and Amazon S3 for exercise videos and images, with data encrypted locally and on AWS and transferred over SSL. The platform uses Xsens DOT wearable sensors to measure joint range of motion; rather than relying on default motion-capture algorithms, INNERLUXES developed proprietary algorithms tailored to knee-joint and lower-back mobility to improve accuracy, comparing readings against previous data and therapist targets. It also stabilized data streaming and resolved patient-orientation measurement issues, and added personalized therapy plans, exercise video instructions, progress reports, in-app messaging and educational content.
INNERLUXES assembled a team of a project manager, a business analyst, a regulatory compliance consultant, a UX/UI designer, two Xamarin developers, two front-end developers, four back-end developers and a QA engineer. After market, competitor and patient research, it elicited requirements, prioritized features and designed a HIPAA-compliant architecture. The MVP was built with AngularJS and Node.js for the platform and therapist/admin web app, Xamarin for the cross-platform patient mobile app, Amazon EC2 for the back end and web app, and Amazon S3 for exercise videos and images, with data encrypted locally and on AWS and transferred over SSL. The platform uses Xsens DOT wearable sensors to measure joint range of motion; rather than relying on default motion-capture algorithms, INNERLUXES developed proprietary algorithms tailored to knee-joint and lower-back mobility to improve accuracy, comparing readings against previous data and therapist targets. It also stabilized data streaming and resolved patient-orientation measurement issues, and added personalized therapy plans, exercise video instructions, progress reports, in-app messaging and educational content.
Results
INNERLUXES delivered a ready-to-market MVP within six months, followed by continuous evolution to meet the needs of patients and medical professionals. The wearable-based platform lets physical therapists remotely assess joint range of motion and adjust each patient's personalized program to improve outcomes and help avoid pain and injury. Among the platform's users, the solution drove a 71% reduction in pain, a 70% reduction in unnecessary surgeries and a 52% reduction in medication consumption. Satisfied with the collaboration and results, the customer entrusted the solution's further evolution to INNERLUXES.
INNERLUXES delivered a ready-to-market MVP within six months, followed by continuous evolution to meet the needs of patients and medical professionals. The wearable-based platform lets physical therapists remotely assess joint range of motion and adjust each patient's personalized program to improve outcomes and help avoid pain and injury. Among the platform's users, the solution drove a 71% reduction in pain, a 70% reduction in unnecessary surgeries and a 52% reduction in medication consumption. Satisfied with the collaboration and results, the customer entrusted the solution's further evolution to INNERLUXES.