NIHPO, INC.
MIAMI, FLORIDA

NIHPO proposes to serve all stakeholders through the integration of data sources along topical areas, regardless of the agency that provides the underlying raw dataset. NIHPO is building a search engine for medical device data that integrates raw data from the FDA and HHS' OpenPayments. NIHPO's research premise is: "Can cross-linking disparate health data sources in a search engine lead to higher usability for all stakeholders?" NIHPO's search engine design and data representation model are optimized for the lay user, primarily senior citizens. And targets Spanish speakers as well. Making health-related Open Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable ("FAIR") required an innovative approach. NIHPO users benefit from better results, faster, leading to more efficient and effective decision-making. Although the FDA has compiled medical device adverse event data since June 1993, the FDA's web-based searchable database only contains the last 10 year's data. And there's no alerting mechanism currently in place. NIHPO includes the entire FDA MAUDE dataset. With summaries of total events by manufacturer per year, or total number of deaths by device class. Users can subscribe to alerts by device, manufacturer name, or device class. Medical device manufacturers oftentimes provide compensation (financial or otherwise) to healthcare providers ("HCPs"). Those payments are reported in the HHS' OpenPayments database. Users (patients, hospital buyers, attorneys, etc.) can leverage NIHPO to correlate a device's adverse event history against a particular HCP's recommendation, cross-linked with industry funding to the HCP. This wrap-around view can help surface potential conflicts of interest. NIHPO manually curates and harmonizes manufacturer names, saving users' time and providing more accurate results. NIHPO's integrated, cross-agency search approach is relevant to these use cases: "Duty to re-contact" / "duty to notify": HCPs have a duty to inform patients of relevant new medical developments. HCPs can use NIHPO to monitor devices installed / prescribed by the HCP. Medical device maintenance: HCPs in general, and hospitals to a higher degree, rely on increasingly complex medical devices. All of the equipment listed in a facility’s Maintenance Monitored Equipment (MME) inventory is subject to a carefully-controlled regimen of performance assurance, safety testing, and scheduled maintenance. HCPs use NIHPO to risk-adjust device maintenance, replacement schedules based on custom adverse event reports. The raw data sources (both FDA MAUDE and OpenPayments) are very dry and number-centric, for obvious reasons. NIHPO uses Social Math to turn individual records into a "story" that is both easy to digest and more actionable. Each year, over 8,000 new medical devices are marketed in the United States, including 50-80 high-risk devices. Users can leverage NIHPO to: Reduce barriers to innovation for smaller medical device firms. NIHPO's focus is to make data usable, actionable. The User Experience is optimized for a user using low cognitive, data-retention skills. Covering the spectrum from a multi-tasking teenager, to a vision-impaired senior, all the way to a non-native English speaker. NIHPO's easy-to-use interface has all the features users may need, easily accessible, in a simple and self-explanatory layout. Users know what to anticipate from each feature and where exactly each link will take them. NIHPO's website is purposefully minimalistic, with no distracting features. NIHPO proposes to serve all stakeholders through the integration of data sources along topical areas, regardless of the agency that provides the underlying raw dataset. NIHPO is building a search engine for medical device data that integrates raw data from the FDA and HHS' OpenPayments. NIHPO's research premise is: "Can cross-linking disparate health data sources in a search engine lead to higher usability for all stakeholders?" NIHPO's search engine design and data representation model are optimized for the lay user, primarily senior citizens. And targets Spanish speakers as well. Making health-related Open Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable ("FAIR") required an innovative approach. NIHPO users benefit from better results, faster, leading to more efficient and effective decision-making. Although the FDA has compiled medical device adverse event data since June 1993, the FDA's web-based searchable database only contains the last 10 year's data. And there's no alerting mechanism currently in place. NIHPO includes the entire FDA MAUDE dataset. With summaries of total events by manufacturer per year, or total number of deaths by device class. Users can subscribe to alerts by device, manufacturer name, or device class. Medical device manufacturers oftentimes provide compensation (financial or otherwise) to healthcare providers ("HCPs"). Those payments are reported in the HHS' OpenPayments database. Users (patients, hospital buyers, attorneys, etc.) can leverage NIHPO to correlate a device's adverse event history against a particular HCP's recommendation, cross-linked with industry funding to the HCP. This wrap-around view can help surface potential conflicts of interest. NIHPO manually curates and harmonizes manufacturer names, saving users' time and providing more accurate results. NIHPO's integrated, cross-agency search approach is relevant to these use cases: "Duty to re-contact" / "duty to notify": HCPs have a duty to inform patients of relevant new medical developments. HCPs can use NIHPO to monitor devices installed / prescribed by the HCP. Medical device maintenance: HCPs in general, and hospitals to a higher degree, rely on increasingly complex medical devices. All of the equipment listed in a facility’s Maintenance Monitored Equipment (MME) inventory is subject to a carefully-controlled regimen of performance assurance, safety testing, and scheduled maintenance. HCPs use NIHPO to risk-adjust device maintenance, replacement schedules based on custom adverse event reports.