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Our Solution

OrpheusKey: Crowd Sourced Content as Second Aid

Our solution's stage of development:

Pre-Seed

Our solution:

Using non medicinal digital content (esports, books, music, art) as therapies with the help of BCI, AR, VR, distributed analytics platform, telecommunications and AI and then reading the resulting bio-signals our solution will optimize health outcome in a feedback loop. This model will be used to build recommendation engine.

Our pitch:

1) A platform to connect patient, therapists, researcher and bot to ensure culture aware personalized care/socialization for better mental health ( Depression, Stress, Fatigue, Panic Attack) and pain management.

2) Combination of music, video, jokes, story (quiet reading or recorded reading), hypnosis, recorded exercises, live private or group participation, improvisation to feel better. Bio signals would be monitored during consumption of the content during some sessions and adjusted for optimum (as reflected in EEG and bio-signals compensated for personal variations) state of body. The observations will be used to build recommendation engine to be deployed and accessible world wide.

Choices:

a) Bot/recommendation engine (AI) based self serve option to feel better

b) Group socialization session to feel better

c) Patient and researcher matching - can talk for free

d) Talk to Music therapist from anywhere in the world – private session - paid

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An Expedia (like platform) to promote digital content as personalized therapy. The whole architecture is planned to be on a secure distributed platform accessible via net. When travelling is too difficult to reach human therapists the user can get treatment suggestion staying at or near home. The health management is non medicinal/non drug based.

The platform will provide few face to face sessions again back online or always online therapy options; long distance fun or social group sessions; opportunity to talk to people and being understood; Treatment depends on culture too - in some culture music is thought to be pathway to sin ... in such a culture alternate mechanism should be used. Such culture aware therapists may not be in USA; but using online service we can get content that is culture aware even though we are in USA. The solution is applicable to war veterans too to handle PTSD.

The problem:

“Disease” is biological or objective. “Illness” is psycho-social so subjective. Cognition attaches meaning and can amplify pain, depression etc. and same part of brain is involved in both pain and emotional disorders (depression, anxiety). Drug could be used to treat those but that causes addiction problem in the long run and there are issues with withdrawal. Performance of Music can elevate pain tolerance and make us happier without drugs. On top of that music forms a sense of community. Long distance group video music sessions or recommendation engine option will be very useful and affordable for people in maintaining optimum health without relying on drugs.

Why our solution will solve the problem:

The following articles have links to my own as well as outside academic research to justify my proposals:

Music and Pain Management Survey

Natural Endorphin Release and Pain Management

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The technologies we employ:

Consumer-facing software (mobile applications, cloud services)
Digital systems (machine learning, control systems, big data)
Electrical engineering
Imaging and sensor technology

Why our solution is unique:

Our personalized solution is considering culture, personality and preference of the consumers. The personalisation/precision would be achieved via open data from similar and other relevant domains as well as bio signal analysis using AI and machine learning techniques. It is unique in a sense that self serve culture aware and personalized therapy will be available from any part of the world.

Why our solution is human-centered:

Pain is a huge problem in the First Nations community. In most countries mental health is not taken seriously. It takes many months to get an appointment to see a therapist. Discussing mental health issues are not well accepted in the work place and not always understood in the family. Not all treatments are covered under insurance. So making it automated/bot and cloud based as much as possible would make it accessible and affordable. People are ashamed to share mental health problems. In the presence of a safe self serve system many would seek help.

How people will access our solution:

It will be deployed via cloud, google hangout like services. The AI recommendation system can be accessed via internet and it would be the least cost option (no cost in travelling, low fee as no human therapist is involved full time) or could be served for free from schools supporting marginalized youths as an early intervention (Government supported) instead of reactive and costly intervention way too late. This service could be deployed via university/school research groups and Ministry of Youth Services etc. People can get free service and researcher could get necessary anonymous data to perform research.

Technology-Readiness Level:

4-5 (Prototyping)

Our website

http://www.orpheuskey.com/

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