Introducing Hemobilize
The human source plasma industry manufactures pharmaceutical therapies and treatments. Thousands of Americans have benefitted from the cutting-edge technology developed from plasma as treatments for all manner of maladies including bleeding disorders, immunodeficiencies, tetanus, rabies, hepatitis, and severe burns. Plasma solutions also have important roles during various surgical procedures.
My business partner, Steve Weston, and I have more than 45 years of experience in the plasma industry, including many years with the world’s largest independent collector of plasma. We discovered that a lot of time and money have been spent improving the technology of the plasma collection process, specifically the medical equipment and IT systems, but the labor intensive and inefficient task of moving needles, tubing, filters, centrifuge bowls, etc., (what we call a “softgoods set-up”) from the Critical Supply Room to the actual workstation (i.e., the donor bed) had been largely ignored. Typically, a single softgoods set-up is assembled and delivered to the donor bed at the beginning of each donation. We then developed the concepts for the “Softgoods at Bedside” system. Instead of repeatedly having to deliver a single softgoods set-up per donation, each donor bed utilizing a Hemobilize SG Access Cart or SG Supply Cart can have up to twenty-one softgoods set-ups at bedside at the start of every workday. That is more than two days’ worth of softgoods set-ups available at once!
Once we had our garage built “prototypes” we then needed a partner with experience and expertise to manufacture and market to bring this concept to life. TrippNT was our number one choice because of the company’s thirty years of manufacturing expertise, sales experience, and relationships with hospital and clinical laboratory industries with a well-built reputation for superb quality and customer service. Today, the Hemobilize system is a core category within the TrippNT product line-up and after its introduction at the PPTA Plasma Protein Forum, the premier plasma industry trade show, in October 2022, Hemobilize is set to become a revolutionary tool for the entire plasma industry.
