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nQ is a computational biotechnology company with experience in digital phenotyping through AI-aided analysis of personal device interactions. We have developed digital biomarkers for Parkinson's disease in early and newly diagnosed/untreated stages of disease. In addition to PD, we are currently conducting a number of separate clinical trials to develop digital biomarkers individually relevant to Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, Alzheimer's disease, and mTBI with industry partners and academic centers including Cleveland Clinic and Massachusetts General Hospital. OUr AD trial has advanced to yield early and promising results measuring cognitive decline and delineating PD and AD symptomatology. In prodromal stages of neurodegenerative diseases such as PD, digital biomarkers offer possibility of detecting actual subclinical symptoms known to predict phenoconversion better than biochemical markers which often predict disease risk but not timing. Some key advantages of our digital biomarkers include: -Continuous, longitudinal, remote, real world quantification of psychomotor symptoms; -Patients are not burdened with completing structured tasks or clinic visits for data collection. Patients use their personal devices as they normally would and data is collected passively and transparently, often 24/7; -Patient privacy and security is ensured at each step of algorithm. Biomarkers perform even though content of what patients type on their personal devices kept confidential and secure. Specific to Parkinson's Disease: -Five peer reviewed publications reflecting 4 clinical trials demonstrating technical validation and clinical validation in PD patients; -Performance in correlating to UPDRS-III and differentiating healthy controls from from Parkinson's disease with AUC>0.90 in early PD patients thus far published. Follow-up work from our group and academic research by others have demonstrated continued increase in accuracy with increased data and refinement; -Performance in longitudinal symptom monitoring, distinguishing medication responders from non-responders. Use cases in multiple phases of clinical trial and in the clinic post-approval: Trial: -Cohort enrichment - pre-screening of patients to undergo more expensive or detailed diagnostic testing; -Symptom Fluctuation/Disease Progression Monitoring - characterize subpopulations of patient cohorts: responders, early progressors etc; -Outcome measure - Smartphone interaction is inherently relevant to daily function. Precise quantification can detect treatment responses missed by cruder metrics. Post-approval: -Disease screening for diagnostic referral; -Symptom monitoring as an independent or companion software to aid treatment titration, monitor compliance; -Generate real world data and evidence (RWE); -Supporting telehealth visits, access to patients in under-served/remote areas, via telemetry.
About nQ Medical, Inc.:
nQ Medical is a digital therapeutics company addressing neurocognitive and neuromotor disorder via 24/7, passive data collection via personal devices. It is a frictionless, non-invasive, early detection, remote disease progression monitoring, and therapeutic measurement modality. nQ uses an artificial intelligence company to develop computational biomarkers that have been proven in five years of clinical trials to substantially change the way disease is managed for a wide range of neuromotor and neurocognitive disorders (Alzhemer's, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, concussion, et al. The platfomr focuses on analysis of user interaction with common electronic devices to capture functional decline related to neurodegenerative disorders. The fine control of typing and touch screen kinematics together with the frequent use of electronic devices allows for precise monitoring of small changes in neurodegeneration that frequently go unnoticed by clinicians. nQ allows for early detection of disease, 24/7, passive, at home, remote monitoring of disease progression and the measurement of impact of therapy at a fraction of the cost of current gold standards. There is no required task. Just use your device as your would normally use it. Of note, as one of the company's medical advisors, Zoltan Mari, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic, so aptly quoted: "As important as it is to fund novel compounds for treating diseases, it is also important to set the stage for maximum impact when those compounds are discovered and approved for use. It is impossible to find a cure without early detection. That's why drug candidates fail. When the FDA puts its stamp on the first disease modifying drugs, such early detection technologies will be instantly necessary." He goes on to state further: "We also need a disease progression marker. Nothing so far has managed to do very well (while being profoundly expensive). Much of our research and clinical interest is turning toward disease progression. All efforts should focus on readying and perfecting early detection tools and building effective, reliable, inexpensive ways of tracking disease and the impact of therapy over time.” nQ is that early detection, disease progression computational biomarker.
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Andor Health was born over 4 years ago with a single mission; to fundamentally change the way in which care teams, patients, and families connect and collaborate. By harnessing the latest innovations in OpenAI/GPT models, our cloud-based platform unlocks data stored in source systems - such as electronic medical records - to deliver real-time actionable intelligence to care teams within ubiquitous virtual collaboration platforms like Zoom. By perfecting communication workflows, our platform accelerates time to treatment, decreases clinician burnout, and drives better patient outcomes.  

Healthcare institutions and providers use ThinkAndor® to enable providers to configure patient and clinician interactions with ubiquitous team collaboration platforms. This eliminates the need to manage added applications. ThinkAndor® enables a frictionless virtual interaction allowing physicians and patients to communicate without being distracted by disjointed technologies during a virtual consultation. 

ThinkAndor is the only integrated virtual collaboration platform that can truly bring together all aspects of outpatient, inpatient, post-acute and at home virtual care collaboration through the 5 Pillars of Virtual Health: Virtual Visits, Virtual Hospital, Virtual Patient Monitoring & Care Management, Virtual Team Collaboration, and Virtual Community Collaboration. 

Features include:

  • Virtual visits launched from the EHR
  • Voice-to-text clinical notes
  • Real-time alerts and notifications
  • Secure collaboration channels
  • ThinkAndor® AI Bot provides relevant content and clinical context to visits and care teams
  • Device-agnostic virtual rounding, nursing, sitting and remote consults to power the virtual hospital
  • Remote specialty consults such as Tele Stroke, Tele Psych, and Tele ICU
  • Access to a virtual on-demand network
  • Multi-room/patient virtual sitting for a variety of risk types
  • Virtual nursing to address staffing shortages

In 2020, Microsoft M12 took an investment position in Andor Health and works very closely to optimize virtual interactions leveraging OpenAI and GPT. Since then, Andor Health has grown to serve over 70,000 providers and over 500 hospitals leveraging the Andor Health platform across the US, Canada, and UK. Orlando Health, Medical University of South Carolina, Tampa General Hospital, Yale New Haven, and the National Institutes of Health are among some of the most notable. You may find some of our most prestigious partners here, https://andorhealth.com/partners.html. 

Most Importantly, Black Book has ranked Andor Health as the #1 Virtual Care Collaboration Solution with the Highest Client Satisfaction in 2023! Black Book Market Research used 18 key performance areas of operational excellence to rank Virtual Care Solutions vendors, and recognized Andor Health as the Highest in Client Satisfaction.  More importantly, Black Book reached out to nearly 1000 provider organizations, hospitals, and health systems to perform this independent market evaluation with Andor Health taking  #1 in 13/18 key performance indicators across all 5 pillars of virtual health & collaboration! This success is a proven indicator of Andor Health’s focus to empower clinicians and care teams with distinct, AI-powered virtual collaboration experiences. 

About Andor Health:
At Andor Health, our mission is to change the way care teams connect and collaborate. By harnessing machine and human intelligence, our cloud-based platform unlocks data stored in electronic medical records to deliver real-time actionable intelligence to care teams – both inside and outside of their enterprise. By optimizing communication workflows, our solutions accelerate time to treatment, decrease clinician burnout, and drive better patient outcomes. Built on an AI/ML framework, healthcare institutions and clinicians can self-configure the signals and workflow actions as you would any device connected to the internet, and personalize the intelligence they need at the right moment in time to provide better care.

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ThinkAndor® supports multilingual and omni-channel virtual visit sessions between patients and providers without the need for downloading an app. Via Andor’s digital front door, we provide patients with a model for navigating to the appropriate line of care through a first in the industry use of OpenAI/GPT capabilities. Patients can either schedule a synchronous virtual visit session or choose from a variety of asynchronous options. Patients can also add family members or caregivers in the virtual wait room and providers can invite colleagues for multi-disciplinary calls using the embedded ThinkAndor®AI Bot within the session. This whole process helps to improve how both patients and providers are brought together.

ThinkAndor® supports a comprehensive virtual waiting room with a fully configurable set of patient intake and assessment forms. In this process, providers can push patients to complete a device and browser check, review their symptoms, complete inclusion/exclusion criteria and upload images. Shortly before the visit, patients can add family members or care givers and improve accessibility through features like closed captioning. Providers/care team members can track a patient’s progress in the queue and alert them when the provider is ready to begin the session.

ThinkAndor® provides highly-resilient video call capabilities with the ability to toggle to phone/audio and support multi-party sessions. The presence of the ThinkAndor®AI Bot during visits acts to track time, surface clinically relevant content for the clinician, and create SOAP notes. Additionally, ThinkAndor® can support asynchronous communications for lower acuity conditions. These can be escalated to synchronous calls if a clinician determines that the patient’s status has degraded.

ThinkAndor®’s bidirectional integration with the client EHR allows users to leverage existing patient demographic/medical information and upload new documentation. Generative AI curates the content and context for the clinician from the virtual experience for clinical documentation prep and decision making. The ThinkAndor®AI Bot also facilitates an ambient experience in the virtual visit and captures the voice of the clinician to generate clinical documentation for the EHR, including SOAP notes. The dashboard allows clinicians to both monitor active signals from patient inputs and devices as well as review past documentation in the patient details. This improves workflow orchestration and enables faster interventions to yield improved patient outcomes.

ThinkAndor® has the ability to support eligibility, payment processing – including payment plans & copays, prescriptions, labs, orders, and referrals through third-party integrations and core host systems such as the client’s EHR. Relevant information from orders can be surfaced by the ThinkAndor®AI Bot and brought to the attention of providers through preconfigured alerts and escalation pathways. Because the ThinkAndor®AI Bot starts the session, it also captures the timing of the experience and the documentation to support billing for that particular visit. Post-visit, ThinkAndor® continues the experience by reaching out to the patient to ensure compliance with their care plan and any follow ups that may be required.

Andor Health provides both remote and on-site technical support as needed by customer institutions. Andor Health maintains a help desk to receive service-related inquiries from the client via designated means during the client’s business hours, excluding Andor Health observed holidays, and Andor provides clients with extended support outside of business hours via telephone for critical issues. Per the specific implementation and the client’s needs, Andor can stand up educational materials and assign the appropriate routing for patient concerns.

Through ThinkAndor®’s native capabilities and deep integrations with staffing partners, Andor can help fill chronic staffing shortages and address emergencies like burst capacity scenarios. For virtual nursing, virtual sitting, remote consults, and other bespoke virtual hospital use cases, including telestroke, telepsych, and virtual hospitalists, Andor can either leverage resources from other facilities within a health system or bring in credentialed resources from third parties. This both fills certain specialties which users may not already have staffed and allows for health systems to reduce costs by better matching resources to current capacity.

Andor Health uses PowerBI to provide robust analytics such as provider utilization/productivity, average time per visit, most commonly treated conditions, resolution vs. escalations, volume by day and time, and patient feedback. Andor Helath is also pioneering the use of OpenAI and GPT to provide insights and analytics along a patient’s care plan so that as data comes through, ThinkAndor™ can provide predictive analysis on the outcome of the patient.

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  • nQ-Medical’s Immediate Impact on Efficiencies in Clinical Development of Neurologic Therapeutics

    Exorbitant Costs and Inefficiencies of Drug Development
    The pharmaceutical industry, on average, incurs a cost to bring each new compound through to approval at an estimated cost of $2.8B. For Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), as an example, drug
    development costs substantially exceed other therapeutic areas with total costs of a traditional AD drug development (including cost of capital, cost of failures) estimated at $5.6B often taking over 13 years from preclinical studies to approval by the FDA.1

    In comparison, estimated cost of a cancer treatment development is $794M (at a 9% cost of
    capital). Clinical trials represent the most expensive phase of the drug development process.1
    Drug developers face significant clinical trial challenges and cost burdens around patient
    recruitment, retention, and adherence. These increasing complexities and costs of on-site
    monitoring are further inflamed by increasing payor and regulatory pressure for proof of value.
    Forbes recently summarized that about 80% of pharmaceutical trials do not meet enrollment
    deadlines, resulting in an average loss up to $1.3M per day for a given drug candidate.2
    Additionally, about 37% of research sites fail to meet their enrollment targets, and 10% fail to
    even recruit a single patient for the study. Based on these industry estimates, a lack of patientcentric trial designs leads to 35% of patients dropping out of clinical trials. Another 35% do not adhere to study protocols, costing about $1M per trial in lost productivity alone.2
    Drug developers within Neurology space face even greater challenges as probability of success for CNS therapeutic Phase 3 Clinical trials is much lower than other disease areas at 33% (Cardiovascular 74%, Anti-Cancer 62%).6 Within Neurology, AD Trials have a specifically low rate of success evidenced by exorbitant development costs when failure rates are included (Table 1).1

    nQ Immediate Efficiency Opportunities - Patient Segmentation
    Patient segmentation is critical to the success of a drug development and clinical trial program. Taking AD as an example, multiple failures in clinical trials over the past decade are likely due to incorrect patient selection, eg, screening and testing on advanced dementia instead of Phase III trials are the costliest part of AD drug development. Table 1 from Cummings et al shows the average cost and duration of each phase of AD
    drug development. These figures include the cost of capital and the cost of failures that companies sustain (3rd column) working in the AD drug development arena. Even out-of-pocket costs for development of a single AD agent approach $500M (4th column). 1
    early/prodromal disease. It is quite possible that efficacious compounds have likely been
    shelved after being tested in inappropriate patient segments.

    The FDA’s 2019 Guidance to Industry on Enrichment Strategies for Clinical Trials encourages
    drug developers to identify patient segmentation strategies to 1) decrease variability; 2)
    increase prognostic enrichment by selection of patients at high risk of disease-related
    endpoints; 3) increase predictive enrichment by selection of patient sub-segments with disease stages more likely to respond to drug treatment. In the words of the FDA, these type of strategies can be expected to power an “increased number of events in a shorter time period, generally allowing for a smaller sample size…even an imperfectly characterized predictive marker can greatly increase the power and likelihood of study success.” 3

    nQ plays an important role in each of these patient segmentation and enrichment strategies:
    • Decreasing variability:
    - As the FDA suggests, “choosing patients with baseline measurements of a disease
    or a biomarker characterizing the disease in a narrow range” can decrease
    variability and increase study power.3 nQ’s ability to give granular quantitation of
    disease symptoms allows clinical trial designers to define a narrow range of
    scores for inclusion into the trial to decrease heterogeneity.
    - As the FDA further suggests “excluding patients whose disease or symptoms
    improve spontaneously or whose measurements are highly variable” can
    decreased intra-patient variability and increase study power.3

    nQ’s ability to provide repeated quantitative assessments continuously between clinic visits
    allows trial designs which include a pre-randomization baseline “run-in” period
    whereby patients whose symptoms resolve spontaneously or have highly
    variable baseline symptoms could be excluded. The decreased variability
    provided by these strategies would increase study power.
    - The FDA adds “identifying and selecting patients likely to adhere to treatment”
    would decrease variability.3

    nQ’s ability to detect known drug effect (eg, Parkinson’s Disease [PD] patients taking levodopa) allows for monitoring of drug compliance and, in the correct trial context, could allow for monitoring of drug compliance and be used to identify patients likely to adhere to treatment.

    Illustrative examples: The concept of increased clinical trial power can encompass both
    decreased enrollment numbers and shorter duration. Using nQ to decrease variability
    and increase clinical trial power would allow for designs with shorter duration. Again
    taking AD as an example, VitalTransformation predicts that reductions only in the
    patient identification times during recruitment phase by as little as 25%# for a net total
    decrease of duration by only 4.8 months across Phase 1-3 trials of an AD Drug
    development program would yield clinical R&D savings of $70M in cost of capital savings
    alone (at 11% cost of capital).6

    Increased study power can also allow for smaller trials with decreased number of
    participants. Not specific to AD, but CNS disorders in general, the cost per patient across
    for phases 1+2+3 is $34,000 + $39,500 + $40,500 respectively = $114,000 total/patient.7
    For a non-AD CNS clinical trial with 200 patients per arm = 400 total patients, reduction
    in number of patients by as little as 10%# could yield savings > $4.5M in a single
    development program.

    • Increasing prognostic enrichment (identifying high risk patients for endpoints):
    - Taking AD as an example, accuracy of diagnosis of AD by clinical assessment
    alone is only around 70-80% meaning 20-30% of patients in a whole generation
    of prior clinical trials likely did not even have the disease being attempted to
    treat.4 Some newer AD clinical trials (such as Biogen’s Aducanumab trial) have
    tried to confirm AD diagnosis by selecting patients with biomarker evidence of
    abnormal amyloid in the brain. Unfortunately, those biomarkers for amyloid
    currently consist of invasive lumbar punctures which many patients refuse or
    expensive PET scans which are difficult to schedule at a limited number of
    facilities and cost about $4,000 per scan.

    Illustrative examples: if the goal is to recruit 1,000 cognitively normal individuals who
    are PET or CSF amyloid positive into a Phase 3 clinical trial, and given that around 30% of
    cognitively normal individuals above age 65 are expected to be amyloid positive,
    without enrichment at least 3,334 individuals need to be screened. Using nQ metrics,
    the screening of patients for subtle symptoms of AD could be accomplished to enrich
    screening for amyloid using PET scans above the background rate of 30%. Even if
    performance of nQ metric in AD is imperfect (data pending) and the positive predictive
    value (PPV) of NQ screening was 60%#, the number of individuals required to be
    screened on PET/CSF amyloid to reach 1,000 participants would be cut in half. At the
    estimated cost of $4,000 per PET scan, the amount of money saved from a reduction of
    initial PET prescreening scans alone for 1,667# individuals is > $6.5M.

    The cost saving above reflects only the pure billing cost of PET testing. Not reflected are
    further savings due to faster recruitment time from having to schedule fewer scans,
    fewer patients recruited/screened, fewer clinic visits/clinic overhead, and more rapid
    study closure. The per-patient cost of recruitment/screening into an AD trial can exceed
    $100,000/patient.8 If validated, reducing the number of patients screened from 3,334 to
    1,667# patients yields savings of >$166M. 80% of clinical trials face delays of >1month and delays can cost up $1.3M per day;2 If the time savings from nQ deployment lead to reduction in delays by even 15# days this could yield savings of $19M.

    • Increasing predictive enrichment (Identifying more responsive patients for treatment):
    o As the FDA suggests “An initial screening for response — a biomarker
    measurement, eg, early clinical response, or full-fledged clinical response — in an
    open-label pre-randomization period can be used to identify a responder population that would then be randomized in the controlled study …identifying a responder population, eg, a subset of the overall population with a larger than average response to treatment and studying this population in a clinical trial can provide two major advantages: 1) increased study efficiency or feasibility; and 2) an enhanced benefit-risk relationship for patients in the subset compared to the overall population.” 3

    nQ’s ability to quantify symptoms and to track them longitudinally can be used
    to identify responders versus non-responders. The ability to execute this type of
    tracking in PD patients has clearly been demonstrated in our publication
    Matarazzo et al.5
    - Identifying responder and non-responder populations can provide other critical
    advantages to clinical trial design. Leveraging this type of data can produce
    unique efficiencies across multiple clinical trials. For example, the FDA suggests
    using patients who failed or were non-responders to one drug as control subjects
    in a trial for a different agent which works by a different mechanism. They state,
    “A population of non-responders to a different drug can be randomized to the
    new drug or to the drug they did not respond to. The comparison is enriched with
    respect to the active control comparison because the population is expected to
    have a poor response to the original drug compared to the test drug.” 3

    Illustrative examples: Identification of responder and non-responder groups can lead to
    increased study power and expedited screening between trials allowing for briefer trial
    durations and fewer participant numbers; the advantages of this is already discussed.
    In addition, and perhaps more importantly, clinical trials with known responder groups
    would increase the probability of success which is an extremely sensitive driver of total
    drug development cost. To see this effect, we can return to AD as an example and
    consider Table 1; increases in probability of success affect figures in 3rd column (total
    cost Phase 1+2+3 = 4.02 billion) which adjust for development failures and cost of
    capital. We can use a simple toy model which includes cost of capital and probability of
    success to calculate total cost for each Phase.

    Using data from Table 1 and 11% cost of capital yields probability of success for Phase 1-
    3 of 13.2%, 10.5%, 25% respectively. The current total cost of Phase 1 + 2 + 3 per Table 1
    is $4.02 billion. Very modest theoretical improvements in probability of success values
    by relative increases of 5%# (ie x1.05) to 13.8%, 11.0%, 26.2% predicts total cost of
    Phase 1 + 2 + 3 = $3.83 billion for a net saving of >$190M.

    nQ Immediate Efficiency Opportunities - Clinical Trial Outcome
    In addition to patient segmentation, nQ metrics can provide an early outcome measure in
    clinical trials indicating compound efficacy for informing critical go/no-go decisions. As
    mentioned above, Phase 3 clinical trials, especially in neurodegenerative conditions, are the
    most expensive phase of drug development. Correct decisions about terminating a program
    early after Phase 2 studies or well-informed early futility analysis during Phase 3 trials are
    critical decisions involving deployment of multiple hundreds of millions of dollars. Failure to
    collect or correctly interpret data to inform these decisions can have potentially disastrous
    consequences as in Biogen’s recent Aducanumab experience. Inexpensive testing which even
    partially informs these critical decisions even in one or two cases easily justifies its cost. Within PD, nQ has demonstrated it can clearly identify patients responding to dopamine therapy versus patients who are not responding5 providing early, continuous measurement of
    compound efficacy.

    In addition to providing useful proof-of-concept data for guidance of internal Go/No Go
    decisions, continued data collection and clinical experience with nQ metrics could lead to a
    superior FDA approval endpoint for neurodegenerative diseases. For an approval endpoint/
    outcome, FDA usually requires a new drug to show improvement in an established clinical
    endpoint with decades of experience and direct relevance to mortality, function, or other
    clinical meaningfulness. Typing represents an inherently meaningful task with direct relevance
    to patient function. Furthermore, unlike traditional endpoints which can be difficult to assess or accurately quantify due to subjective clinical assessment (such as UPDRS scale for PD), nQ
    metrics derived from typing data can be more easily measured and better quantified accurately to allow for increased power in detecting drug effects. Continued data collection with larger numbers of patients, demonstrating correlation to traditional outcomes of function will develop nQ metrics into powerful new approval endpoints for FDA submission in neurologic disease.

    Illustrative examples: In Biogen’s Aducanumab trial, CSF phospho-Tau (p-Tau) from patient
    lumbar punctures was reported as an additional endpoint. Although the FDA will not approve a
    medication based on improvement of a surrogate biomarker such as CSF p-Tau, improvement
    of p-Tau levels in patients after treatment with anti-amyloid antibody such as aducanumab
    lends powerful support to an argument for disease-modifying efficacy of the drug and can drive internal decision-making as well as support arguments made to FDA. FDA’s 2018 Guidance to Industry on Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Development promotes demonstrating improvement in multiple tests to make arguments for efficacy, “FDA will consider strongly justified arguments that a persuasive effect on sensitive measures of neuropsychological performance may provide adequate support for a marketing approval…..beneficial effects demonstrated across multiple individual tests would increase the persuasiveness of the finding; conversely, a finding on a single test unsupported by consistent findings on other tests would be less persuasive.”9

    Similar to p-Tau, nQ can play a role as additional endpoint to drive internal decision-making and lend support to FDA submissions. The out-of-pocket cost of a Phase 3 AD trial can be $287M per Table 1. While no single test will alone drive the decision to discontinue a development program from Phase 2 to Phase 3, a test such as nQ which drives even 15%# of the confidence in correctly making that decision provides value of >$43M.
    # For illustration purposes only If with enough experience, nQ could be developed into a surrogate outcome for direct FDA approval based on improvements in nQ scores, this would allow for increased power of clinical trials with smaller numbers and shorter durations, the advantages of which have already been discussed.

    Mediating TBI Trial Data Collection Barriers
    With continued development of nQ TBI digital biomarkers, efficiencies similar to the above
    discussion (AD and PD) can be expected in a TBI drug development program through improved data collection, patient segmentation, and outcome measurement. The ability to develop improved patient segmentation strategies and outcome measurement strategies for TBI using nQ technology is enabled by unique advantages in data collection and analysis:

    • Accurate baseline: Players eager to return to play are well known to falsely impair their
    baseline performance on standard concussion assessments. This makes detection of
    new impairments after a concussion in game harder to detect and allows players to
    remain or return to play. By using passive data collection during natural device use, nQ
    technology can capture an accurate baseline to enable accurate measurement of
    change.

    • Rapid assessment: Early assessment of TBI symptoms is important within 12 hours postinjury.
    An nQ score can be generated in as little as 15 seconds of smartphone typing.
    This could enable even in-game, sideline assessment of nQ score. While this could be
    useful in a clinical trial setting, if validated, an accurate sideline assessment of
    concussion symptoms would represent a valuable and marketable test independent of
    any drug development program. Alternatively, assessment of concussion symptoms
    could begin immediately post-game as the player resumes using his/her device.

    • Continuous measurement: The younger age group population at higher risk for TBI
    overlaps significantly with population of high smartphone usage. As already discussed,
    this provides opportunity for remote monitoring of symptoms and response to
    medication.

    • Rich data set, adherence: In addition to information derived from keystroke dynamics,
    nQ data also reflects smartphone usage patterns. This type of phone usage data is
    studied in correlation to mood (depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc.), circadian rhythms, and
    can also be used to monitor compliance with “cognitive rest” (abstinence from reading,
    TV, smartphone usage, etc.) often prescribed after concussion.

    Mediating TBI Patient Segmentation/Outcome Measurement Barriers
    A smart patient segmentation strategy is critical to success of a trial and when effectively done can increase power of trial design allowing for shorter clinical trial and smaller sample sizes. The ability to assess outcomes accurately and continuously informs critical go/no-go decisions involving hundreds of millions of dollars in the most expensive phases of a drug development program in the form of:
    • Pre-screening with nQ to enrich/increase yield of screening with more expensive tests.
    Similar to arguments provided above about pre-screening for amyloid PET scans, nQ can
    be used to increase the yield of more expensive testing such as MRI scans or blood
    based genetic and cellular markers.

    • By detecting subtle symptoms and quantifying them, nQ scores could be used to
    decrease variability in patient cohorts, confirm that patients included in a trial had
    concussions, and possibly quantify severity of TBI.

    • Longitudinal assessment of symptoms after concussion allows for identification of which
    patients are improving and can “return to play” versus patients with continued
    symptoms developing “post-concussion syndrome.” Assessment in even longer
    timeframes could be used to identify Parkinson-like symptoms and cognitive symptoms
    commonly found in CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), an otherwise difficult to
    clinically diagnose condition which can develop after repetitive head trauma.

    • Longitudinal assessment of symptoms can identify responder versus non-responder
    groups which allow for efficient clinical trial design and efficiencies across clinical trials
    as non-responders from one trial may be effective controls in another trial.

    Future State Vision/Promise
    Ultimately, typing represents a complex reflection of integrated central and peripheral nervous
    system function encompassing behavioral, cognitive, language, sensory, psychomotor, and
    neuromuscular domains of function. Continuous, remote, unobtrusive/passive collection of
    this rich dataset and its appropriate analysis enables not only immediately visible efficiencies in clinical trial design but multiple other advantages in drug development including screening
    efficiency, generation of real-world-data and evidence, generation of superior endpoints for
    efficacy:
    • Widespread deployment of nQ to patient cohorts can allow for in-silico remote
    screening of patients for desired symptoms or probability of testing positive for other
    measures. This screening could be done prior to in-clinic visit allowing for efficient use of
    in-clinic time.

    • Social networking sites could be accessed for remote recruiting. Such remote electronic
    screening strategies can identify patient populations for clinical trials or drug treatment
    including patients with limited access to healthcare facilities such as rural populations.

    • Widespread deployment of nQ data collection would allow for generation of real-world
    evidence (RWE) in the context of potentially multiple neurologic diseases
    simultaneously. Analysis of this observational data in context of other patient data such
    as that obtained from the EHR can generate RWE for new indications of existing
    medications, access to new patient populations otherwise not included in clinical trials,
    and/or satisfaction of post-approval requirements.

    • Increasing experience with nQ data in multiple neurological diseases is inherently
    clinically meaningful and can lead to new clinical endpoints that can be used directly as
    surrogate endpoints for FDA approval in addition to acting as secondary/exploratory
    endpoints to help detect the early signals of compound efficacy that drive internal
    Go/No Go decision making.

    Conclusion
    Analysis of keystroke dynamics data can be viewed as a digital biopsy of complex central and
    peripheral nervous system function. Harnessing this data by efficient collection and analysis can allow for innovative enriched clinical trial designs with increased power (shorter durations and smaller size), efficiencies across different trials, and inform critical futility or Go/No Go
    decisions. Widespread deployment could further allow for remote screening, RWE, and novel
    approval endpoints. The total value provided by deployment of nQ will vary significantly
    depending upon details of its implementation, method of calculating valuation, and pending
    data about nQ performance within various disease areas but achievement in the millions of
    dollars can be reasonably anticipated.

    References:
    1 Cummings, J., Reiber, C. and Kumar, P. (2018) ‘The price of progress: Funding and financing
    Alzheimer’s disease drug development’, Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research &
    Clinical Interventions, 4, pp. 330–343.

    2 Das, Reenita. “Top Five Digital Health Technologies in 2019.” Forbes.
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/reenitadas/2019/02/04/the-top-five-digital-healthtechnologies-
    in-2019/ (November 9, 2019).

    3 U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 2019. “Enrichment Strategies for Clinical Trials to Support Approval of Human Drugs and Biological Products.” http://www.fda.gov/regulatoryinformation/search-fda-guidance-documents/enrichment-strategies-clinical-trials-supportapproval-human-drugs-and-biological-products (November 9, 2019).

    4 Archer, M. C., Hall, P. H. and Morgan, J. C. (2017) ‘Accuracy of Clinical Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease in Alzheimer’s Disease Centers (ADCS)’, Alzheimer’s & Dementia. (2017 Abstract Supplement), 13(7, Supplement), pp. P800–P801.

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Pediatric use cases:

None provided

Users:

Researchers ad clinicians in neurodegenerative diseases.

Description:

ThinkAndor® is the first-to-market virtual health collaboration platform leveraging AI-powered models, like OpenAI/ChatGPT, to orchestrate virtual collaboration experiences with clinical context. Our platform, ThinkAndor®, coordinates contextual workflows across 5 key pillars of virtual health: Virtual Visits, Virtual Hospital, Virtual Patient Monitoring, Virtual Team Collaboration, & Virtual Community Collaboration.

Digital Front Door - Digital front door with AI Virtual Assistant framework accessible on any channel, including SMS Text, Email, Web, and ThinkAndor®AI Bot 

  • Enable intake/triage forms for self-reported data and patient navigation 
  • Configure automated patient experience workflows for marketing, scheduling, and other clinically relevant opportunities 
  • End to end digital front door experience for virtual visits as well as in-person visits 
  • Configuration of CRM platform of choice for workflows

Virtual Visits - Patient Virtual Waiting Room 

  • SMS/text and email links for patients to access on-demand asynchronous or synchronous virtual interactions with providers
  • Virtual lobby, assessments, digital consents, eligibility & payments 
  • Program & Portal enrollment 
  • Education, videos, family invitations, call back feature 

Clinical Notification & Dashboard Views 

  • EHR integrated experience 
  • Provider visibility & virtual lobby access 
  • Automated waiting room queues for on demand and scheduled patients 
  • Automated notifications and alerts to next care team member to ‘join’ session  
  • Embedded in Virtual collaboration & EHR platforms (enables providers to curate content from EMR into the visit experience)

Virtual Hospital - Virtual Rounding  

  • In room & remote device provisioning 
  • Simplified single click to join experience for participants with WebRTC enablement 
  • IoMT, PTZ camera, and diagnostic device integration 
  • Enable automated signals and alerts to care coordinators and nurses 
  • Multi-disciplinary collaboration sessions with patients and families 
  • Orchestrate automated care plan follow up  
  • Patient experience assessments, including Q15 Check in 

Virtual Sitter

  • 24/7 sitter solution scalable to support up to 16 patients at once
  • Device agnostic deployments supporting cameras, mobile carts, or in-room infotainment systems
  • Partnerships with third-party staffing resources to fill potential gaps in a hospital’s sitter resources
  • Use of AI to track concerning movements and highlight patients requiring interventions
  • Alerts and notifications sent to on-site nurses during a medical emergency

Decentralized Remote Consults

  • Support for remote specialty consults such as Tele Stroke, Tele Psych, and Tele ICU
  • Access available resources across a health system or a national network of credentialed providers
  • Fulfill out of network consulting needs when a health system’s own providers are available
  • Surface labs, patient details, and place orders using ThinkAndor®AI Bot
  • Support for multi-disciplinary call sessions

Virtual Nurse

  • Complete initial intake, assessments, and discharge planning 
  • Invite family members and care givers
  • Engage with ThinkAndor®AI Bot to configure care plans
  • Complete tasks like dual sign-off for medication verification

Virtual Patient Monitoring - Remote Monitoring

  • Unified experience for VPM enrolled patients and an efficient workflow for care teams and clinicians 
  • Patient device kits and self-reported assessments integrated with workflow orchestration where care team members can configure distinct data signals to monitor patients remotely  
  • Configurable, AI Driven care plan templates 
  • Routine patient check-ins/assessments 
  • Integrated asynchronous/synchronous virtual visit experiences for interventions and routine patient follow up 
  • Over 50 configurable virtual patient monitoring (VPM) care plans, with an easy pathway for health systems to stand up plans for additional conditions
  • Support for a vast array of wearables and biometric devices used for many VPM programs 

Hospital at Home

  • Triage and identification of patient candidates for Hospital at Home programs 
  • Identifying available and on shift providers/care team members to assign staff to the hospital at home care team 
  • Secure communications to allow for tasking and collaboration amongst the different members of the hospital at home clinical staff  
  • Scheduled and On-Demand virtual and asynchronous chat visits for routine check-ins and as needed evaluations based on patient condition/status with comprehensive digital front door capabilities 
  • Workflow orchestration tool responding to live traffic conditions and patient needs to ensure all patient rounds are completed

Virtual Team & Community Collaboration - Secure, HIPAA compliant platform enabling care team collaboration and communication with downstream clinicians 

  • Configure individual roles and teams to drive appropriate communications  
  • Enterprise AI-based communications for users, roles, shifts and teams 
  • Automated escalation to ensure message delivery and review
  • Review, escalate, delegate and forward messages  
  • Built-in voice command capabilities  
  • End-user customization of data and communication channels   
  • Event-based notifications for clinical alerts across care settings 

By providing real-time clinical data and relevant information, ThinkAndor® empowers providers to communicate and take the next appropriate clinical action with bi-directional integration to the EHR. This allows for a seamless continuation of the patient journey from the home setting to inpatient scenarios to post-discharge and remote monitoring care plans.

Pediatric use cases:

ThinkAndor® can support a variety of pediatric workflows, from orchestrating all digital front door experiences to care plans configured by condition or custom workflows pursuant to requirements from the client.  

Users:

We have a number of prominent pediatric hospitals as clients, including:

  • SickKids | The Hospital for Sick Children 
  • Cincinnati Children’s Hospital 
  • Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) 
  • Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children 

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

None provided

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

None provided

EMRs Supported:

None provided

Hardware Compatibility:

None provided

Integrations:

Acute care EMR, Ambulatory EMR, Ancillary EMR, ERP system, Patient portal, Pop health platform, Home health, Behavioral health, Community based organizations, ADT, Access +/or revenue cycle, Credentialing, Website / public online sources, Other

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, Athenahealth, athena, Allscripts/Eclipsys, eClinicalWorks, GE, Other

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Other, Mobile / Tablet (native app)

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