Mente Medical offers a data-driven solution aimed at optimizing surgical instrument trays to enhance operating room (OR) efficiency and reduce costs. Their platform uses RFID technology to track instrument usage during surgeries, allowing hospitals to significantly cut down the number of instruments in each tray without compromising surgical outcomes. By optimizing trays, Mente helps reduce the complexity of OR setup and teardown, lowers sterile processing workloads, and minimizes instrument-related errors. Developed, tested and used at Duke Health, the Mente system has shown substantial reductions in the number of instruments needed, with some surgeries seeing up to 70% of instruments removed without subsequent requests for the eliminated tools. This streamlining not only improves workflow but also translates to significant cost savings— up to $100,000 in annual savings per OR. This technology ultimately leads to faster OR setup, less tray weight, and improved patient care.

Clairvia leverages intelligence to analyze data from multiple streams (Electronic Health Record, Admit Discharge Transfer, Human Resources, and others), to objectively forecast demand for staff based on individual patient condition and assign the most competent caregiver.

Cerner Corporation is a supplier of healthcare information technology solutions, services, devices and hardware. Cerner solutions optimize processes for healthcare organizations. These solutions are licensed by 9,300 facilities globally, including more than 2,650 hospitals; 3,750 physician practices 40,000 physicians; 500 ambulatory facilities, such as laboratories, ambulatory centers, cardiac facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 800 home health facilities; 40 employer sites and 1,600 retail pharmacies. It operates in two segments: domestic, which includes revenue contributions and expenditures associated with business activity in the United States, and global, which includes revenue contributions and expenditures linked to business activity in Argentina, Aruba, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. On May 23, 2011, it acquired Resource Systems, Inc. On October 17, 2011, it acquired Clairvia, Inc.

Our solution tracks instrument usage in a realtime, automated fashion.