[Bellefonte, PA] – Currently, 62 million Americans are 65 years old or older. Aging in place is always desired but often older adults experience transitions in care to facilities such as hospitals (short-term) or assisted living (long-term). Transitions in care, and even procedures that involve anesthesia, may result in confusion and disorientation that can have longer term implications on treatment and length of stay. Having personal items and memory cues traveling with them has been shown to help alleviate this concern. Maintaining healthcare information and personal items organized and ready for emergency and non-emergency transportation is often challenging. Therefore, Actuated Medical developed My Medical Mirror, a companion case, which provides a central location for an older adult’s healthcare and personal information as well as for assistive items like eyeglasses and hearing aids. The lightweight case can be quickly taken with the older adult by emergency staff or caregivers as they transition to a new facility. While in a facility, My Medical Mirror may even help minimize the risk of losing personal items since they are well identified on the front of the case so that facility staff know to look for the items when removing food trays or bedding from the room.
“On the advice of a nurse who studied older adults for many years, we developed the My Medical Mirror companion case.” said Maureen L. Mulvihill, Ph.D. President & CEO at Actuated Medical. “It provides an easy to carry case to store medical information, life stories and personal items. We hope that My Medical Mirror will result in improved health outcomes for older adults.”
My Medical Mirror aims to mitigate the risks associated with transitions in care, including delirium. Delirium, a short-term condition characterized by sudden confusion and disorientation, affects a significant portion of older adults, particularly those living with dementia. Studies indicate that up to 89% of older adults with dementia experience delirium when hospitalized.
100 million people in the U.S. suffer from neurological diseases like Parkinson’s and Epilepsy. The problem is growing. The U.S. expends $800 billion annually on the treatment of neurological conditions. Recognizing the need for better diagnosis and treatments, the NIH has launched the BPMT program. The BMPT initiative assists innovators, facilitating moving their cutting-edge medical device developments toward Regulatory Approvals and commercialization, with support and resources that small companies and university researchers often lack.
Actuated Medical has been selected to offer extensive support to BPMT awardees that are working with the MedTech Hubs of CIMIT in Boston and NeuroTech Harbor in the Baltimore/DC area. This exciting partnership reinforces Actuated Medical’s commitment to advancing healthcare through groundbreaking research, development, and manufacturing.
“We are thrilled to have been selected as a CRO for the BPMT initiative,” said Maureen L. Mulvihill, Actuated Medical President & CEO. “This program will allow us to support entrepreneurial researchers moving their groundbreaking devices toward first-in-man studies to transform treatment of neurological conditions like stroke, Epilepsy, and Parkinson’s Disease.“
The Actuated Medical BPMT contract provides comprehensive support to multiple BPMT grantees. This assistance encompasses the completion of biocompatibility studies, in vivo preclinical testing with adherence to good laboratory practice (GLP) guidelines, and sterilization and shelf-life testing crucial for advancing medical device development. Actuated Medical’s commitment extends to supporting research protocol development, facilitating in-house staff training, and conducting all necessary tests vital for biocompatibility, sterilization, and preclinical safety studies. These findings will serve as the cornerstone for informing regulatory filings, including Investigational Device Exemptions (IDEs), and eventual marketing approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. 75N95023D00022.
About My Medical Mirror:
mymedicalmirror.com/ which includes an online shopping cart.
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