Hill-Rom, Batesville, IN, a leading manufacturer and provider of medical technologies, and Edison Nation Medical, Charlotte, NC, a medical invention developer and online resource for health care innovation, have formed a partnership to conduct a worldwide search for medical invention ideas to address patient infections that occur within health care environments. Hill-Rom and Edison Nation Medical are seeking ideas from health care providers and the public for new products, or improvements to existing ones, that decrease the rate of infection among the millions of patients who receive inpatient or outpatient care each year.
Ideas may be submitted through Edison Nation Medical’s confidential portal now through Nov. 18. The best ideas will be designed, developed and licensed by Edison Nation Medical, which then splits royalties with the successful inventor(s). Hill-Rom will work with Edison Nation Medical to commercialize relevant concepts and will review the remaining ideas as options to potentially supplement the company’s internal product and technology development efforts.
