MindfulGarden Digital Health, Inc. is transforming how healthcare providers manage the sudden and severe change in mental state known as ‘delirium,’ a largely unaddressed global issue that burdens North American hospitals with $90B in direct annual costs.Over-reliance on psychotropic drugs and physical restraints is the status quo in front-line delirium management currently, despite well-documented negative patient health and economic outcomes. These treatment options result in 2.5X… Show more MindfulGarden Digital Health, Inc. is transforming how healthcare providers manage the sudden and severe change in mental state known as ‘delirium,’ a largely unaddressed global issue that burdens North American hospitals with $90B in direct annual costs.Over-reliance on psychotropic drugs and physical restraints is the status quo in front-line delirium management currently, despite well-documented negative patient health and economic outcomes. These treatment options result in 2.5X cost of care, 3X length of hospital stay, 2.5X readmissions, 3X higher mortality rate, and 9X the risk of permanent cognitive impairment to the patient, including earlier onset of dementia. MindfulGarden is the only clinically validated digital ‘tool of first reach’ to de-escalate agitation and lessen reliance on the status quo use of psychotropic drugs in the management of patients with delirium – an acute disturbance of cognition that can affect up to 80% of ICU patients, with effects lasting hours, days or months.A new modality of care, MindfulGarden’s biofeedback platform built on the Unity game engine uses sensor-based technologies to harness the body’s ability to self-calm. The first HaaS-based product (clinically validated) is being introduced as a ‘digital crash cart for behaviours’ with a SaaS solution to follow. Show less

With roots that go back to 1998 in award-winning multi-platform for TV & film, and branches that have extended over the years into digital environments, games, and mobile apps, today's Switch United is a Vancouver-based innovation studio that secures financing and incubates original IP and co-ventures wherever narrative, design and technology come together. Currently the multi-disciplinary team is focussed on MindfulGarden, an interactive platform to reduce anxiety and aggression in hyperactive… Show more With roots that go back to 1998 in award-winning multi-platform for TV & film, and branches that have extended over the years into digital environments, games, and mobile apps, today's Switch United is a Vancouver-based innovation studio that secures financing and incubates original IP and co-ventures wherever narrative, design and technology come together. Currently the multi-disciplinary team is focussed on MindfulGarden, an interactive platform to reduce anxiety and aggression in hyperactive seniors with delirium and dementia, scheduled for clinical study at Peace Arch Hospital in late Fall 2017. Show less