Summate Completes Pilot with First Ever Implant Point-of-use Documentation Within the Sterile Field during live surgery

May 4th, Newburyport, MA:  Summate Technologies announced successful completion of a pilot for the first ever in-field implant usage scanning/documentation during live surgery.  Conducted under the direction of Craig Bartlett, MD, the pilot successfully demonstrated implant tracking initiated through scanning at point of use (POU) inside the sterile field.  Summate’s proprietary TAGMark™  micro transponder technology was applied to a DePuy Synthes small fragment tray, making it ScanReady™.  Implant documentation was scanned over 8 cases, with 100% accuracy confirmed after each case, including “wasted” and “re-implant” dispositions as well as implants placed into the patient.  

According to Dr. Bartlett, “We found the Summate system accurate and simple to use, allowing real time monitoring of all our implant usage down to the smallest screw. Such technology improves our ability to keep track of every piece of hardware we implant or waste. When fully integrated, the Summate solution will improve our hospital orthopedic inventory control, make sure we have restocked what we need, eliminate wasted time for the operating room team and support staff, and save money for the hospital.”

Summate has developed the first nurse workflow friendly, total POU scanning solution for both operating room and procedure labs, spanning the hospital and ambulatory surgery markets. Leveraging the ScanMan platform, all OR/lab consumption – implants and packaged items – can be documented with unparalleled accuracy from point of consumption for the first time.

“Operating rooms typically rely on pens, papers, stickers, telephone calls and multiple manual input steps to track what is used in surgery. This leads to bloated inventories, inaccurate patient records, and poor UDI tracking compliance that plagues our entire healthcare system.  Digitizing usage documentation through scanning at the true point of use will unleash a torrent of valuable downstream data that will lower costs and improve quality for the entire healthcare industry, from hospitals to device companies” commented Phil Sayles, founder and CEO of Summate.

With completion of this pilot, Summate looks to implement pilots with full IT integration and one-step UDI capture for joint procedures at several other major healthcare providers and demonstrate implant supply chain and payment automation with One Surgical trauma implant sets at an ambulatory surgery center.  

For more information on Summate Technologies, please go to www.summate.net