The Operation Room was the last place on earth where high-tech products are not scanned. Screws are manually counted on scrapes of paper and notes on drapes.
I have known Phil for years now and have watched him develop and launch a an elegant solution to this problem with Summate.
Phil and I sat down to discuss Summate.
1. Explain what Summate actually does.
We transform the management of the assets inside any ortho tray from analog to digital by making the existing tray itself smart. Barcodes, which are used in most every other industry, for a variety of reasons don’t work very well on reprocessed surgical assets (like ortho trays). We have leveraged a special tiny incredibly robust laser powered transponder chip to capture all inventory functions of ortho trays down to the part level via point of use scanning.
Our technology enables a fully digital supply chain - we connect the “last mile”, which is always the hardest and most critical part of any network. And we can work with any company’s sets and trays and deliver the technology - and the value - account by account.
2. How do digital sets and trays change things for the ortho and he...
