ClearCount Medical Solutions, a five-year-old Pittsburgh-based company, was recently featured in TIME magazine.
Clear Count developed the SmartSponge System — a technology that features chip-embedded sponges and relies on radio-frequency identification (RFID) to ensure that no surgical sponges get left behind. The SmartSponge System is the only system to use both counting and detection for the prevention of left behind surgical sponges.
ClearCount CEO David Palmer is the recipient of the 2009 Carnegie Start-Up Entrepreneur Award for commercializing the SmartSponge System. Carnegie Science Center established the Awards for Excellence program in 1997 to recognize and promote outstanding science and technology achievements in western Pennsylvania.
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