Decentralizing Rehabilitation: Using Blockchain to Store Exoskeletons’ Movement

During the 2nd Semester of 2018, at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica – ITA), a successful Collaborative Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning (Co-IPBL) experience took place. At that time, more than 20 undergrad and graduate students from 3 different courses, within just 17 academic weeks, had the opportunity of conceptualizing, modeling, developing, and testing a Computer System involving multiple actors (Patients, Doctors, Hospitals, and Suppliers) for real-time decision making in the rehabilitation with Exoskeletons of patients suffering from Lower Limb Impairment after motorcycle accidents. Differently from other existing products from universities, research centers, governmental agencies, and other public and/or private companies, this product was developed, using the best practices of the Agile Scrum Method, along with emerging Information Technologies (ITs) such as Blockchain Hyperledger, Internet of Things (IoT), among others. This Co-IPBL was performed with the participation of a rehabilitation medical team from the Hospital of Clinics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo (HC-FMUSP). The experience described in this paper illustrates a way of dealing with the multiple challenges involved in teaching, learning, designing, and implementing complex intelligent systems to address health care issues with collaborative work involving multidisciplinary teams facing real-life problems such as exoskeletons applied to clinical recover of Patients.