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PE teacher or volunteer coach . We are researching whether some of this expertise can be transferred to a school environment and make a difference in young people ’ s lives . One particular focus of ours concerns the adolescent growth spurt : we know that young people are particularly susceptible to certain injuries during growth spurts .
These injuries are avoidable if training is modified during the growth spurt . This is well known in youth football academies for example , but completely unknown in the school environment . We are doing a study to see if it is possible to translate this learning to a school environment and reduce these avoidable injuries .
All data used for research is fully anonymised . It sits in a secure data lake , which uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to make sure that only authorised people can access the data . We ’ re also constantly looking at other ways of protecting that data , such as ontological rules , synthetic data and differential privacy that enable people to interrogate the data without threatening its anonymity .
How has OutSystems aided Podium in creating its Digital Injury Insight Platform and what have been the benefits realised ?
I first implemented OutSystems in my previous role at the England and Wales Cricket Board ( ECB ) and have been a fan ever since . At the ECB , we were able to very quickly build mobile apps and web-enabled systems using low-code . We did it in such a way that the users with innovative ideas were able to sit next to an OutSystems developer and very quickly create a quite sophisticated mobile or web app to test whether their idea worked . If it didn ’ t then we spent no further time on it and moved on to the next idea . If it did then we were able to continue developing the app with the user .
The design process is very collaborative because it is a graphical environment where both users and developers can work together on . This resulted in very engaged users building apps that were well-adopted very quickly . That ’ s kind of a Holy Trinity when it comes to software development .
The OutSystems platform also looks after all aspects of the software development life cycle making it easy for us to move through each stage from idea to having an app on the App Store .
How has OutSystems allowed Podium to scale the app to meet user needs accordingly , as well as meet developer demands ?
OutSystems enables us to scale seamlessly from around twenty schools to thousands , since it is a cloud-based development environment hosted in elastically scalable Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) datacentres .
Also because of how the platform works , we ' re able to have different OutSystems partners working on different parts of the problem . We have different audiences with various expectations and multiple ongoing research projects .
With OutSystems , we are quickly able to satisfy all these individual needs while working together on the same platform . We ’ re not getting in each other ' s way , but all mutually contributing to the capability of the platform .
What does the future look like for Podium ?
There are two key things that I think are particularly exciting . Firstly , the research that we are undertaking at our Podium Institute at the University of Oxford is really starting to ramp up , and with the amount of investment that we are able to put into it , we are going to make a massive difference to young people ' s lives by combining the disciplines of AI and Machine Learning , with trauma medicine , biomechanical engineering and psychological research .
Who knows where this could take us , but it is not beyond the bounds of the possibility that this could potentially lead to predictive analytics and diagnostics in a few years .
The other area that particularly excites me is the possibility of putting existing knowledge and resources into the hands of teachers and coaches who have not had access to that level of information before . This could be transformative to young people ’ s lives . �
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