Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Development and Implementation of a Multi-Disciplinary Technology Enhanced Care Pathway for Youth and Adults with Concussion

Jay L. Alberts^1,2,3,4, Michael T. Modic³, Belinda Udeh^3,5, Tanujit Dey⁶, Kay Cherian¹, Xiaoyang Lu³, Richard Figler⁴, Andrew Russman⁴, Susan M. Linder^1,4

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, ²Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, ³Office of Clinical Transformation, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, ⁴Concussion Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, ⁵Neurological Institute Center for Outcomes Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, ⁶Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Foundation

A multidisciplinary carepath to standardize disparate concussion care was developed and implemented at the Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic Concussion (C3) mobile application was used to enable the carepath through biomechanical outcomes characterizing cognitive and motor function. Patient outcomes improved while cost of care was reduced following implementation.

Engineering

The Immersive Cleveland Clinic Virtual Reality Shopping Platform for the Assessment of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Jay L. Alberts^1,2, Morgan McGrath^1,3, Mandy Miller Koop¹, Colin Waltz¹, Logan Scelina¹, Kathryn Scelina¹, Anson B. Rosenfeldt¹

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute, ²Neurological Institute, Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic, ³Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine

Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful yet underutilized approach to advance the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disease. The Cleveland Clinic Virtual Reality Shopping platform combines state-of-the-art VR content with an omnidirectional treadmill to quantify instrumental activities of daily living-a proposed prodromal marker of neurological disease.