Evolv works with Microsoft and ZOTAC donate RehabKits to hospitals

Hospitals in New Yorl, London and Milan to provide telerehabilitation

Evolv, with the support of Microsoft and hardware manufacturer ZOTAC, has donated its virtual rehabilitation technology to three leading hospitals so patients can continue crucial treatment from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Evolv’s product consists of a virtual therapy software platform called EvolvRehab and a hardware unit known as a RehabKit that connects to a television. The system allows patients to perform videogame-like activities called exergames that are prescribed by therapists who can remotely monitor patient adherence and performance through the system.

The Evolv RehabKit incorporate the Microsoft Azure Kinect DK which uses computer vision and Artificial Intelligence to track patients’ movements, and a mini-gaming PC from ZOTAC. Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform is used to securely host and share the experience, while Microsoft Teams allows patients and therapists to communicate quickly and easily. A simple, one-button start system ensures that patients with a physical or cognitive disability, or their caregivers, can easily use the RehabKit.

The RehabKits were donated to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in London, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Fondazione Don Gnocchi in Milan – three cities hit hard by the pandemic. Patients receiving rehabilitation at hospitals, clinics or centres in the community have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak due to many of these services being reduced or even cancelled. For many medical conditions, not being able to access appropriate rehabilitation can have devastating consequences for individuals’ long-term functional outcome.

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