Congratulations to both SoundPass and Bloom Surgical for winning their respective categories at the Patient Safety Technology Challenge Grand Awards on Jan 9, 2025 in Las Vegas!
Showcasing their technologies to judges and spectators at the CES Startup Stage, SoundPass won the Idea Stage Grand Award, and Bloom Surgical took home the Development Stage Grand Award. Each team is a recent winner of the CMI Bench to Bedside - Legacy Team Grand Prize Award (Bloom Surgical in 2023, SoundPass in 2024).
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge is part of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative and sponsored by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's ongoing commitment to advancing safety innovation in health care. The winners were selected based on "criteria including innovation, scalability, impact on patient safety, and feasibility."
To learn more about the competition and all finalist teams, click here.