Automation that helps hospital sterile processing teams prepare surgical instrument trays.
Automation that helps hospital sterile processing teams prepare surgical instrument trays.
Before each procedure, sterile processing technicians inspect, sort and assemble dozens of instruments into the exact tray the surgical team expects. It is skilled, repetitive, high-stakes work, and departments across the country struggle to hire and keep enough people to do it. When trays are late, incomplete or wrong, cases are delayed or cancelled, patients wait for care, and hospitals lose operating room revenue.
Vital Automation was founded by Randall Yale, MD, an anesthesiologist who has spent years in and around the operating room. He has seen firsthand how understaffed and undertrained sterile processing departments lead to delayed or canceled surgeries, postponing patient care and costing hospitals revenue. We’re building the help hospitals need: automation that eases staffing shortages, reduces errors, and gets surgeries back on schedule, improving patient care and recovering lost operating room revenue.
Our system handles routine surgical instrument pan reassembly, so technicians spend their time on more complicated tasks.
Every tray must be complete and correct. Our approach is designed around verification, and anything uncertain goes to a technician rather than being guessed.
Technicians stay in control. The system fits into existing prep-and-pack workflows instead of replacing them.
Any hospital with a surgical sterile processing department, from community hospitals to large health systems.
In extensive research and development. We build and train our robotic system in high-fidelity simulation using NVIDIA physical AI tools running on AWS, and are preparing for real-world pilots.
We're looking for hospital pilot partners, investors and research collaborators who want to help shape the future of sterile processing. Reach out below.
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