Grants Awarded To Physical Therapy Exercise Software Company Awarded Will Enhance Software

Aug. 29, 2010 - PRLog -- WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA — Prognition Corp., the physical therapy exercise software company that owns Mavenlive, recentlywas awarded two grants from Canada’s National Research Council for further enhancements to Mavenlive.  

One is to develop the ability to collect outcome measures so that the efficacy of different treatments can be documented. The second is to develop a community for professionals to share knowledge, said Dr. Jay Winburn president of Prognition Corp.

Mavenlive is a web-based physical therapy electronic documentation software that prescribes rehabilitation exercises (http://www.mavenlive.com/), presents best practice patient assessments and automatically generates customizable documentation, reports and letters to referring doctors.

“Mavenlive is designed to make the implementation of ‘best practices’ easier for clinicians, and we hope eventually to expand its use into many healthcare fields,” Winburn said. “Evidence must be gathered to determine what truly is a best practice.”

The grant will make that possible. Collecting outcome measures is an ongoing need, due to new treatment modalities constantly being introduced.  Although randomized double-blind studies are the gold standard, they cost millions of dollars and are only done in relatively few situations, he said.  Health care workers currently rely on anecdotal evidence. For example, someone tells someone else that something seems to work.  Collecting outcome measures and analyzing them will be a major step up from anecdotal evidence.

The second grant will expand upon Mavenlive’s physical therapy software community to include aspects of a wiki, as well as a social community, Winburn said.  

“Right now, the most commonly accepted number is that it takes approximately 17 years from when something is known for it to be commonly implemented in practice,” Winburn said. “This is a huge problem and different governments sponsor several conferences in any given year to address this issue.”

The fundamental technology that Prognition developed uses a filter constructed from information gathered during a patient’s assessment. That information is searched against all previous knowledge entered into the system to see if it is applicable.

If a bit of knowledge is applicable, it will be presented to the healthcare worker, regardless of whether it has been known for a week or for decades.  

“This is a different paradigm of search that is not a keyword search,” Winburn said. “Unlike a keyword search, it solves the paradox of searching for what you don’t know.”

Being awarded these two grants makes it possible for Prognition Corp. to continue improving Mavenlive, making it increasingly helpful to those who use it in their physical therapy practices.

Learn More
If you would like to learn more about Mavenlive exercise prescription software (http://www.mavenlive.com/blog/) or you are a physical therapist interested in trying the software, please call (866) 996-2836 or visit the company’s Web site for more information: www.mavenlive.com.

About Maven Live and Prognition Corp.
Maven Live was created in March 2009 by Prognition Corp., a software company headquartered in Canada’s National Research Council’s Biomedical Commercialization Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Maven Live is a complete clinical solution that presents “best practice” patient assessments and exercise prescription to ensure consistency within physiotherapy offices. This physical therapy software automatically generates customizable documentation, reports, letters to referring doctors, improves patient outcomes, automates processes and documentation and saves time.

Because it is Web-based, users can access the software anywhere they have an Internet connection.

Prognition Corp. is a software company that develops computer solutions for knowledge management. The company’s name stands for “programmed cognition.”

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Maven Live is a complete clinical solution that presents “best practice” patient assessments and exercise prescription to ensure consistence within physiotherapy offices.