March 24, 2022 – Baptist Health South Florida announced an agreement with Rehab Boost, a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) to develop an innovative platform to diagnose movement abnormalities. The body motion recognition technology being developed under the name Gait Boost, LLC is a first-of-its-kind platform, which also marks Baptist Health Innovations’ first startup company.
Gait Boost, will focus on a person’s gait, better known as a person’s manner of walking. Abnormalities in movement may provide early indicators of severe sicknesses or medical conditions.
As the first-ever startup company under Baptist Health Innovations, Gait Boost licensed the Rehab Boost patented remote diagnostic platform to enhance analysis of gait and other movement outcomes. Gait Boost will be developed with clinical expertise from Dr. Elizabeth Anne Ouellette, Medical Director and Vice Chair of Research at Baptist Health, and Dr. Ron Tolchin, Medical Director of the Spine Center at Baptist Health’s Miami Neuroscience Institute.
Elizabeth Anne Ouellette, M.D., MBA, is a renowned orthopedic hand surgeon, the chief of Hand for the Baptist System, specializing in the treatment of wrist fracture, ligament tear, nerve injury, joint instability and small joint replacement. She performs surgeries of all complexities. She has more than 30 years of clinical experience treating athletes and people of all ages and teaching and mentoring medical students, residents and fellows. She is widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals and is an invited speaker at national and international academic symposiums, and has published on how hand surgery affects gait.
Ronald Tolchin, D.O., is the chair, division of physical medicine & rehabilitation and pain management, and medical director of the Spine Center at Miami Neuroscience Institute. He has been in clinical practice for more than 25 years and specializes in rehabilitation medicine, lower back pain and spine disorders. Dr. Tolchin has authored and co-authored several book chapters in rehab and musculoskeletal medicine and has published a number of research papers with ongoing research in low back pain.
Rehab Boost’s proprietary AI mobile applications and cloud platform will enable Gait Boost to use smart phone video of a person’s movement and provide feedback regarding remedying deficiencies and potential causes. With the Gait Boost diagnosis tool, both patients and doctors will have access to remote real-time data in a visually meaningfully manner.
Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Rehab Boost, which is one of the owners of Gait Boost and has licensed AI technology to Gait Boost, continues to operate as an independent company. Rehab Boost provides both patients and therapists flexible rehabilitation tools that can be configured to evolve dynamically, through self-guided or therapist-led programs. Using data-rich AI technology, Rehab Boost helps complement the medical community while enhancing user life experience and the rehabilitation process.