Advancing Women’s Health: Innovative Home EMG/EEG Solution for Incontinence Treatment

About Client

The client is a leading medical device manufacturer in Netherlands specializing in pelvic health devices. They engaged iOrbit to develop a low-cost consumer variant of their pelvic health clinical product for doing pelvic floor exercises at home.

Client’s Challenge

The client's clinical pelvic health product is intended for use in a clinical environment by specialized healthcare professionals like the Pelvic Floor Therapist (PFT) for the diagnosis and treatment of pelvic floor dysfunctions. Many patients require daily training exercises for the pelvic floor. As the clinical variant must be operated by a therapist, the patient cannot do pelvic floor exercises at home performed with or assisted by the client's product.

Due to the nature of pelvic health treatment, patients are required to make frequent visits to the clinic. Any lapse in these visits affects the impact and effect of the treatment, thereby lengthening the duration of the overall treatment. In addition, the clinical variant is a high-cost device.

iOrbit Solution

To address the challenges, iOrbit developed an at-home use variant of the existing clinical product that is easy to operate with a user-friendly Android mobile application. In addition, the training data is made available on iOrbit’s proprietary IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) cloud platform accessible to healthcare professionals with the help of a user-friendly web application.

iOrbit Scope

While designing the solution, we focused on:
Effectiveness of treatment equivalent to the clinical product
Ease and safety of use by non-clinical users at home
Availability of necessary training-only features to ensure patient safety

iOrbit’s solution comprised of:

Treatment device with existing proprietary probe (from the clinical product)
Bluetooth connected mobile application for patients to download the prescribed training program and initiate the training
Cloud platform for data storage and analytics
Web application for clinicians to prescribe the training program with clinical parameters, view the training results & patient progress, and adjust the training program if necessary

Key Outcomes

Extended Care Beyond Clinics: Enabled patients to continue pelvic floor training safely at home, reducing dependence on frequent clinic visits.
Improved Treatment Adherence & Outcomes: Daily home-based exercises with remote clinician oversight shortened treatment duration and improved effectiveness.
Clinician-Patient Connectivity: Cloud and web application ensured seamless prescription, monitoring, and adjustment of training programs by therapists.
Cost-Effective Solution: Introduced a lower-cost home-use variant, expanding market reach while complementing the clinical product.
User-Friendly & Safe Design: Delivered an intuitive mobile app and device ensuring ease of use and patient safety for non-clinical users.

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