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1. THE BEGINNING
This innovation initially came to life when…
During the Creative Tech Start up weekend in Brisbane. A team of 6, co founded a device that helps detect early onset dementia at the first possible symptom that being a change in gait pattern. The team came together as they all had personally been touched by dementia and wanted to make a change. Although no prevention, early detection gives quality to life to patients and family and may also help researches to continue to look for a cure.
2. WHAT & HOW
The purpose of this innovation is to…
…a hardware device that fits in between 2 shoe soles to detect changes in gait pattern. Through blue tooth or chip, it is able to provide data to doctors and specialists to help analyse changes and whether dementia it present.
It does this by…
…measuring the patients walking and gait patterns via pressure sensors in the hardware.
3. PURPOSE & BENEFITS
This innovation improves on what came before because…
…at this stage the current way doctors assess gait pattern is by doing a walking text in the clinic which does not provide accuracy or measurement. This innovation is the only one of the sort.
Its various benefits to the customer/end-user include…
Customers and patients as they are able to conclude whether they have dementia or not and also the medical industry as detecting it early lowers costs in hospital settings.
4. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
In the past, this problem was solved by…
A walking assessment by a doctor to test there gait pattern. They would walk a couple of metres and then turn around and come back.
5. TARGET MARKET
It is made for…
Doctors and health professional – in clinic or hospital settings. potential to expand to chemists and nursing homes.
It is available for sale through…
Currently not available.
Our marketing strategy is to…
Be regulated and provide to doctors and professionals. Potential leads already through MNHH.
FINE PRINT: This SMART 100 profile and the information it contains is a duplication of content submitted by the applicant during the entry process. As a function of entry, applicants were required to declare that all details are factually correct, do not infringe on another’s intellectual property and are not unlawful, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, obscene, or otherwise objectionable. Some profiles have been edited for reasons of space and clarity.
Maven Judge Vote: Motia Health – Smart 100 2018
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