A start-up with a ground-breaking screening device works with a global design and contract manufacturer to scale production to impact the way respiratory conditions are diagnosed worldwide.
SOTECH Health and Phillips-Medisize Tackle Covid to Improve Outcomes Around the Globe
Manufacturing Capabilities that Take a Medical Device Breakthrough to a Global Scale
- SOTECH Health utilizes unique sensing technology developed at the University of Texas at Dallas to create a device that screens for COVID-19 in less than 30 seconds
- The Phillips-Medisize collaboration led to optimized product design and development
- More than 31,000 clinical study tests completed to date: regulatory approvals pending
- Ramping high-volume production with regulatory approvals pending in U.S., U.K., Europe and Canada
- Demand for game-changing COVID-19 screening test required streamlined product iterations
- Focus on human-factors design principles needed to ensure intuitive operation and accurate results
- Ability to navigate complex regulatory review process and prepare rapid manufacturing ramp to expedite go-to-market
- Phillips-Medisize offered proven experience in bringing novel healthcare technology to market
- Seamless teamwork facilitated fast-track product design and development
- End-to-end manufacturing plan and expanded global footprint poised for expedited production
- Powerful technology can screen for COVID-19 in less than 30 seconds
- More than 31,000 clinical study tests completed to date: regulatory approvals pending
- Ability to scale manufacturing to produce tens of thousands of disposable mouthpieces and handheld devices daily; poised to meet increased demand for detecting COVID-19, flu and pneumonia
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Phillips-Medisize Collaborates with SOTECH Health on Novel Breath Analyzer for Rapid COVID-19 Detection
SOTECH Health’s reusable breath-test device leverages innovative sensor research from The University of Texas at Dallas with a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform and Phillips-Medisize’s human-centered product design, rapid prototyping and end-to-end manufacturing expertise.
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Delivering Mass Screening
New Electronics author Neil Tyler talks to Kade France, CTO of SOTECH Health, and Bill Welch, the former CTO of Phillips-Medisize, a Molex company. Learn how the handheld breath analyzer, combined with AI, can deliver mass screening for infectious diseases.
Volume 55 | Issue 01 | January 2022