Joint Project between GE and the VA to Make Bedsores a Thing of the Past

The VA’s reputation for poorly serving those who have served our nation has slowly been fading from the limelight like so many other issues brought to the public’s eye by the media. Here is some good news about an innovation created in a joint effort by GE and the VA. A team of scientists have combined an array of sensing and analytical tools, including motion analysis, thermal profiling, image classification/segmentation, 3-D object reconstruction and vapor detection into a single medical sensing handheld probe. This probe is then used to assess and monitor bedsores. Bedsores (or pressure ulcers, the official name for bedsores) are pretty common and very painful. As many as 2.5 million patients get them every year. The device the VA and GE are working together to develop can help detect the earliest signs of bedsore formation. Researchers are hopeful that the info the device provides may help hospitals reduce and one day eliminate these painful pressure ulcers from developing all together. It’s nice to have some positive things to share about an innovation that will not only benefit our veterans but many others that visit hospitals and care centers in the civilian sector too.