IMMERSIVE TECH, INC. - Florida Company Profile

https://www.immertec.com/

https://immertec.com/

813-598-2187

jon@immertec.com

JON CLAGG

P2335335

371859170

2023

36

9209180044

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2022

48

7816546694

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2023-12-15

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ADVANCING EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINING WITH REMOTE STEREOSCOPIC LIVESTREAM TECHNOLOGY - 1 ABSTRACT: IMMERTEC'S PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY FOR STREAMING STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO ALONG WITH TIMELY 2 BIOMEDICAL FEEDS IS ACCELERATING THE TRANSLATION OF SPECIALTY KNOWLEDGE TO MEDICAL PRACTICE ACROSS 3 DISTANCES. DUE TO GEOGRAPHIC AND FINANCIAL BARRIERS, PATIENTS IN UNDERSERVED RURAL AREAS OFTEN LACK 4 ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE SPECIALISTS OR ADVANCED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT. TO MEET THE NEED FOR SPECIALTY 5 CARE, GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES CAN BE TRAINED BY SPECIALISTS TO MANAGE HIGH-RISK 6 MEDICAL EMERGENCIES OR OTHER PROCEDURES WHEN SPECIALISTS ARE NOT LOCALLY AVAILABLE. TRAINING FOR RURAL 7 CLINICIANS OFTEN INVOLVES TRAVEL TO IN-PERSON COURSES, WHICH IS A LOGISTICAL BURDEN THAT TAXES A 8 PHYSICIAN'S TIME FOR PATIENT CARE. INSTEAD OF TRAVELING TO ONSITE TRAINING, IMMERTEC'S TECHNOLOGY 9 PROVIDES A LIVE, IMMERSIVE, DISTANCE TRAINING OPTION FOR CLINICIANS, CONNECTING SPECIALISTS IN ACADEMIC 10 CENTERS WITH RURAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TO BRING EVIDENCE-BASED BEST PRACTICES TO RURAL COMMUNITIES 11 MORE QUICKLY. IMMERTEC'S PATENTED METHOD FOR THE SELECTIVE TRANSMISSION OF MEDIA CONTENT IS USED TO 12 STREAM STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO WITH MORE EFFICIENCY TO REMOTE LOCATIONS, ALLOWING FOR SYNCHRONOUS 13 COMMUNICATION ACROSS DISTANCES. THIS METHOD OF STREAMING PROVIDES REMOTE PHYSICIANS WITH 14 IMMERSIVE VIDEO OF LIVE PROCEDURES, REAL-TIME VIEWS OF CRITICAL MEDICAL FEEDS, AND ABILITY TO TRAIN OR 15 COLLABORATE WITH DISTANT SPECIALISTS AS IF PHYSICALLY PRESENT. DURING THE NIH SBIR PHASE I EFFORT, 16 IMMERTEC'S SOFTWARE AND USER INTERFACE WERE DEVELOPED AND TESTED WITH PHYSICIANS. AFTER 17 DEVELOPMENT, THE USABILITY OF IMMERTEC'S VR SYSTEM WAS VALIDATED BY SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS (I.E., 18 ATTENDING PHYSICIANS IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE [EM] AND OBSTETRICS) WHO RATED THE TECHNOLOGY AN “A+” 19 GRADE ON AN INDUSTRY BENCHMARK USABILITY SCALE. FOLLOWING THE CONFIRMATION OF USABILITY, EM RESIDENT 20 PHYSICIANS WERE TRAINED TO MANAGE AN OBSTETRICAL EMERGENCY USING IMMERTEC'S SYSTEM. PHASE II 21 EXPANDS ON THE PREVIOUS EFFORT THROUGH INTEGRATION OF ADDITIONAL VR-ENABLED FEATURES AND 22 IMPLEMENTING IMMERTEC'S TECHNOLOGY AT A RURAL PHYSICIAN TRAINING PROGRAM. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE 23 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA'S (USF) CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL LEARNING AND SIMULATION (CAMLS), 24 IMMERTEC'S TECHNOLOGY WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE DISTANCE SIMULATION TRAINING FOR TWO OBSTETRICAL 25 EMERGENCIES TO A RURAL MEDICAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM. RESULTS OF THE TRAINING WILL BE COMPARED TO IN- 26 PERSON TRAINING AT A SECOND RURAL MEDICAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM (CONTROL GROUP) COMPARING OUTCOME 27 MEASURES (I.E., KNOWLEDGE, PERFORMANCE, CONFIDENCE), SETUP COST, AND PARTICIPANT TIME FOR RURAL 28 PHYSICIANS. SUCCESS OF THIS PHASE II EFFORT WILL SHOW EVIDENCE THAT IMMERTEC'S TECHNOLOGY IS A MORE 29 EFFICIENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE OPTION FOR PHYSICIAN TRAINING, WHICH CAN BE USED BY MEDICAL DEVICE 30 COMPANIES FOR DEVICE-TRAINING AND TO MEET THE TRAINING NEEDS OF UNDERSERVED RURAL COMMUNITIES.

1604483.00

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2021-07-30

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ADVANCING EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINING WITH REMOTE STEREOSCOPIC LIVESTREAM TECHNOLOGY - 1 ABSTRACT: IMMERTEC IS FACILITATING MORE EFFICIENT DISSEMINATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE BY CREATING 2 A LIVE IMMERSIVE PLATFORM THAT ALLOWS REMOTE PHYSICIANS TO FEEL AS IF THEY ARE IN THE SAME ROOM 3 FROM ANY LOCATION WITH ACCESS TO TIMELY BIOMEDICAL FEEDS. IMMERTEC HAS DEVELOPED PROPRIETARY 4 SOFTWARE FOR STEREOSCOPIC STREAMING VIDEO IN VIRTUAL REALITY (VR), ALONG WITH RELEVANT BIOMEDICAL 5 FEEDS, THAT INVOLVES NOVEL ALGORITHMS TO TRANSMIT AND PROCESS DATA WITH UNPRECEDENTED LOW 6 LATENCY. THE LOW LATENCY STREAMING ALLOWS FOR SYNCHRONOUS INSTRUCTION AND COMMUNICATION ACROSS 7 DISTANCES SUCH THAT REMOTE PHYSICIANS CAN WATCH IMMERSIVE VIDEO OF LIVE PROCEDURES, VIEW CRITICAL 8 MEDICAL FEEDS, AND CONVERSE IN REAL-TIME AS IF PHYSICALLY PRESENT. THIS SYSTEM WILL BE TESTED IN THE 9 CONTEXT OF PROCEDURAL TRAINING FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE (EM) PHYSICIANS, WHO RELY ON ACCURATE AND 10 TIMELY INFORMATION TO MAKE CLINICAL DECISIONS. DURING THIS PHASE 1 EFFORT, IMMERTEC WILL DEVELOP 11 AND TEST THE VR USER INTERFACE WITH PHYSICIANS TO OPTIMIZE THE PHYSICIAN EXPERIENCE DURING LIVE 12 EVENTS AND IMPLEMENT THE VR INTERFACE INTO IMMERTEC’S STREAMING SOFTWARE. THE INTERFACE SHOULD 13 PRESENT RELEVANT DIAGNOSTIC AND CLINICAL INFORMATION TO THE PHYSICIAN AT THE POINT OF NEED, WHILE NOT 14 DISTRACTING FROM THE PROCEDURE NOR IMPOSING ADDITIONAL MENTAL EFFORT. AFTER DEVELOPING THE USER 15 INTERFACE WITH PHYSICIAN FEEDBACK, WE WILL CONDUCT AN EXPERIMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE 16 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA’S (USF) CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL LEARNING AND SIMULATION 17 (CAMLS) TO ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF LIVE VR FOR TRAINING EM PROCEDURES. THE EXPERIMENT WILL TEST 18 WHETHER LIVE VR CAN BE UTILIZED TO INSTRUCT EM RESIDENTS ON AN EMERGENCY PROCEDURE: SHOULDER 19 DYSTOCIA DELIVERY. SHOULDER DYSTOCIA IS A RARE EMERGENCY THAT IS LIFE-THREATENING FOR THE MOTHER 20 AND INFANT. COMPLICATIONS FROM SHOULDER DYSTOCIA FOR THE MOTHER INCLUDE POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE, 21 UTERINE RUPTURE, AND 3RD AND 4TH DEGREE PERINEAL LACERATIONS, WHILE FETAL COMPLICATIONS INCLUDE 22 DEATH, BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY, AND PERMANENT NEUROLOGIC DAMAGE DUE TO HYPOXIA. DUE TO THE HIGH 23 RISK OF THIS EVENT AND LOW OCCURRENCE, SHOULDER DYSTOCIA TRAINING IS NECESSARY FOR EM RESIDENTS TO 24 RECEIVE; YET, LIMITS ON FACE-TO-FACE INSTRUCTION HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE NEED FOR REMOTE TRAINING 25 OPTIONS. PREVIOUS TELECONFERENCING SYSTEMS WERE LIMITED BY LACK OF DEPTH, FIELD OF VIEW, ETC. OUR 26 AIMS ARE TO FIRST DEVELOP THE LIVE VR INTERFACE FROM THE PHYSICIAN’S PERSPECTIVE, AND THEN TEST 27 WHETHER VR STREAMING PROVIDES HIGHER QUALITY TRAINING IN TERMS OF LEARNER OUTCOMES AND USER 28 EXPERIENCE COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL 2D TECHNOLOGY. SUCCESS IN THIS PHASE 1 EFFORT WILL VALIDATE 29 IMMERTEC’S IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICAL TRAINING, PROVIDING EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF THE 30 TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC MERIT OF THIS APPROACH FOR FUTURE COMMERCIALIZATION IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD.

150000.00

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2020-04-27

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Small Business Administration

ECONOMIC INJURY DISASTER GRANT

10000.00

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2020-04-13

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Small Business Administration

TO AID SMALL BUSINESSES IN MAINTAINING WORK FORCE DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

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241372.00

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2020-04-13

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100

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Male Owned

Veteran

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