Regional One Health's Center for Innovation was created to give medical startups a real-world environment to evaluate their products, technology and business model. Recently, they celebrated a major milestone as Access Incubator participant Augment Health completed a scope of work to evaluate its business and clinical use case. Thanks to what they learned, Augment Health [...]
The newest participant in the Access Incubator at our Center for Innovation is Capnesity, a company that is developing a capnography Wearable Respiratory Analysis Device. The device would measure patients' carbon dioxide levels at home rather than the patient having to stay in the hospital. Capnesity hopes its product will lead to shorter hospital stays [...]
The Center for Innovation's newest Access Incubator partner is Augment Health, a Nashville-based startup and graduate of the ZeroTo510 health care accelerator. Augment Health is seeking feedback about its smart bladder monitor from both the clinical and business side of the organization. The partnership allows the Center for Innovation to continue to help build the [...]
The Healthcare Startup Access Incubator at Regional One Health's Center for Innovation is designed to help inventors evaluate their medical innovations in a real-world setting. One of those clinical evaluations, of a new Manuka honey-based wound care product, is now published in the journal Wounds. Wounds shares how the product, created by SweetBio, Inc., [...]
Regional One Health's Center for Innovation is helping evaluate a new product that aims to improve how nasogastric tubes are secured. Aspisafe Solutions is the newest participant in the center's Access Incubator program, and will test its NG Guard to see if it helps prevent dislodgements and pressure injuries associated with nasogastric tubes. It's [...]
Regional One Health is offering a new app that current pharmacy patients can use to order their refills online - anytime and from anywhere! The app also lets you keep a list of your medications at your fingertips, check expiration dates and refills remaining, and get alerts when your medication is ready to pick up. [...]
Regional One Health's Center for Innovation is partnering with Welwaze to test its Celbrea technology with physicians and patients in the health care system. Celbrea is a quick, non-invasive and painless way to alert patients to seek further evaluation for breast cancer. It detects biothermal activity, which is a marker for breast disease, in just [...]
Our Center for Innovation works with internal and external inventors to improve health care for patients at Regional One Health and beyond. The innovation center team recently started a partnership with Christian Brothers University that lets students contribute their engineering knowledge to real-world projects. It's a win-win. The students gain valuable experience, and the [...]
Regional One Health's Center for Innovation is celebrating employees who are adapting to the challenges of COVID-19 by coming up with new ways of helping their patients and colleagues. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Frank Williams developed a tent that can be used to protect providers from particles that become airborne during airway procedures like [...]
COVID-19 safety guidelines and visitor regulations created challenges for discharging newborns, but Regional One Health staff stepped up to get healthy babies home with their families. The team is using iPads to provide parents with the education they need to take their babies home. The success of the project has also inspired them to [...]