Avail Medsystems, Inc., a medical technology company based in Santa Clara, California, has announced a company milestone—the addition of the 50th medical technology organization to its “telepresence network.”
Founded in 2018, Avail provides remote accessibility capabilities for the operating room and enables real-time collaboration. The system is HIPPA compliant and includes both software and hardware.
Avail’s clients, according to its press release, are medical technology companies “specializing in devices for neurosurgery, interventional cardiology, interventional radiology, vascular surgery, and orthopedic surgery.” The signing of the 50th contract will allow the company to “enable hundreds of thousands of people to collaborate, educate, and share surgical and MedTech expertise between operating rooms and remote locations in real time.”
Avail CEO Daniel Hawkins commented, “The Avail platform was built to connect the MedTech industry more frequently, efficiently and seamlessly to surgeons and interventionalists, enabling them to work together more closely to advance medicine.”
Hawkins continued, “With this exciting milestone, the digital evolution of MedTech is well underway. Many of our MedTech partners are integrating Avail into their daily processes to expand the productivity and reach of their commercial teams, thus helping representatives to better engage with customers and support their success.”
While the company was founded prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic did bring to light the need for alternatives to in-person communication. Avail has enabled surgeons to collaborate remotely with medical technology field representatives when in-person collaboration is not an option. Even as some of the in-person restrictions have subsided, increased transportation costs and staff shortages have continued to increase the demand for remote options.
Cochlear Americas Senior Manager, Surgical Care Services John Vogrin commented, “As far as technology goes, the Avail experience has completely raised the bar for our Professional Education Programs—Avail makes us look good.”
Vogrin added, “But more importantly, using Avail has allowed Cochlear to reduce travel for members of our sales team and give them back countless hours of their personal lives while improving the training experience and shortening the time it takes to complete. It’s a win-win-win-win for our company, employees, customers, and their patients.”
Avail’s 50th medical technology isn’t the company’s only recent milestone. The company also recently announced a partnership with the Stroke Thrombectomy and Aneurysm Registry (STAR). STAR allows neurosurgeons to “collaborate and share expertise” from any location. STAR is led by Alejandro M. Spiotta, M.D., from the Charleston, South Carolina-based Medical University of South Carolina.
