Overview
Summate Technologies, Inc., an independent, start-up healthcare technology company based in Newburyport, MA is seeking investors to fund pilot/sales activity for its unique, patented consumption documentation system for the healthcare provider surgical theatre. Summate has developed a unique scanning platform (the Odyssey System™), which is the world’s first scanning system that scans ALL surgical consumption at true point of use, both at edge of and inside the sterile field. Use of funds will be to support pilots at Duke and Dartmouth Health and initial sales effort to local healthcare providers and to fund inventory to fill orders.
The Problem
Incredibly, operating rooms in both the hospital and ambulatory surgery center (ASC) environments lack complete point of use product scanning (POU) in the O.R. O.R. products consist of sterile packaged items/implants in packages which are opened and passed into the sterile field from the edge of the field, and implants which are used from within the sterile field. Currently there are no solutions available to scan all items at their actual point of use during surgical cases. This causes a perva...
