Phyxable, a digital care platform that connects sufferers with physiotherapists and presents customers instruments to be proactive with their well being, was chosen by the Canadian House Company as certainly one of 5 corporations to contribute to its 2023 Health Beyond Initiative, which helps sustainable and progressive options that deal with well being challenges confronted by astronauts.
Dr. Jim Feng, CEO of Phyxable, sat down with MobiHealthNews to debate the Connected Care Medical Module the physiotherapy firm and its companions are engaged on with the Company to investigate astronauts’ well being throughout house flight.
MobiHealthNews: How is Phyxable working with the Canadian House Company?
Dr. Jim Feng: CSA and NASA, and all people who’s presently on this new house flight journey to Mars, we’re searching for higher methods in creating human well being. And in case you have a look at house well being, particularly deep house well being, the place there’s lengthy flights that might be six months or extra in length, and in a microgravity state of affairs, the way you handle these sufferers and handle ourselves actually is far totally different than what we do on Earth.
We do not have the assets, primary. That is the important thing element there. After which you’ll be able to solely have, most likely, generalists who know a little bit about a number of issues, however not lots about little issues.
So one element of the CSA, and that is public data, is that the RFP [request for proposal] that they put out was particularly for 2 elements. One is the {hardware} aspect. So how do you truly construct little clinics and hospitals and that may be autonomous in nature, in addition to self-sustained? So we constructed this actually cool medical pod, and we’ll be capable of showcase it within the upcoming months.
It will be on the Canadian House Company for NATO and NASA for individuals to return via and think about, so it is actually thrilling instances. So we’ve this pod that is totally autonomous. There’s like 30 photo voltaic panels, a rain catch system, UV sterilization, such as you identify it, we obtained it. We even have robotics in there.
The {hardware} is constructed by three companions. So it is Phyxable, Micron Digital and WizCraft Design. So we’ve all of the talent units to construct the elements, the {hardware} elements of it. And yeah, the pod is definitely referred to as Superior Medical Pods.
After which a key element of that is that it needs to be interoperable. You will have to have the ability to plug and play totally different units in there to have the ability to get totally different options. As a result of we will not construct all of it, on the finish of the day, we would like to have the ability to combine. In order that’s key. So there’s going to be a number of gamers which can be going to be engaged on the Phyxable platform.
After which, on the opposite aspect, is the software program. We created a very cool AI-based instrument that we’ll launch to the world, and I believe it solves a giant downside for interoperability. It is referred to as Morpheus. There’s extra to return. That is Phyxable and Micron Digital collectively. We’re engaged on the mission collectively, led by Rohit Seth.
MHN: How is the module going to attach suppliers right here on Earth to astronauts in house successfully, particularly since there is usually a lag in communication time relying on their location?
Feng: There’s positively a delay. So I believe the distinction of what we’re constructing, together with a mesh community, truly, that Micron Digital has, that we’re incorporating into the system, permits for various methods of connectivity.
It is totally autonomous in its personal proper. It will possibly work by itself, but when it is advisable to department out, it has a strategy to synchronize with the cloud on Earth, in addition to again. And with regard to telemedicine, the dialog adjustments in the way you cope with instances. The workflow adjustments. In case you have a change in workflow, you need to change how the knowledge is relayed from, you realize, texts/voice, photos, closed captioning and issues in between.
And what we’re projecting is we’ll have a demo up and prepared by our showcase within the second week of July. In order that’ll be after we’ll truly totally be out to the world.
A variety of stuff needs to be autonomous on the ships, on the house station, on the gateway, on the lunar bases, and hopefully, finally on the Mars bases. After which that is the place actually good AI can are available to make some recommended implementation duties and how one can do it for the generalists which can be there as properly.
So these are issues that we’re constructing for the system as properly. So we’re actually excited for that, as a result of I believe finally it actually expedites how we work right here on Earth.
