● Cognition: The ability to react to the environment – the voluntary motor response to visual stimuli – is a fundamental measure of health, as reaction to any stimulus involves sensory perception, cognition, and motor response. Evaluating these components demonstrates how well a patient can perceive and process stimuli.

In addition to diagnoses, functional motion can also be used for immediate biofeedback to promote treatment adherence and longitudinally determine progress. Regular assessments over the patient’s lifetime help identify issues in their earliest, most treatable stages.


Treating the traumatically injured
One of the best illustrations of the impact AI-enabled, clinically actionable real-time motion analytics can have on patient outcomes can be found with treatment of traumatically injured patients, such as those under the care of L.D. Empting, MD, director of Atlanta-based Independent Neurodiagnostic Clinic (INC). Having suffered severe spinal and central nervous system injuries, INC patients are seeking restoration of functional motion – often years after the initial injury – and relief from debilitating pain.

INC clinicians leverage an AI-driven clinical device and sensor technology to assess and design treatments to restore functional motion. It works through a series of lightweight, wireless and self-calibrating sensors that instantly capture high resolution motion and streams that data to mobile or cloud-based analytics software, then immediately delivers actionable analysis and biofeedback to the clinician and patient.

In addition to assessing and monitoring function, the same body of real-time data is leveraged for the objective assessment and mitigation of fall risk and to quantitatively monitor for medication effects and side effects.

The results have been transformative, according to Dr. Empting. He notes that patients typically experience benefits after a single session – further demonstrating the important role functional motion data plays in achieving and maintaining optimal outcomes.

Making the business case
Real-time, AI-driven functional motion data is a powerful tool for healthcare organizations that have adopted a value-based care model to demonstrate the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare. These data drive diagnostics and therapeutics and monitor rates of improvement and functionality, and also provide payors with the long-term efficacy outcomes required for appropriate reimbursement.

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