Hartford Hospital teams with medical device firm to share ideas, technology

Innovative Medical Products of Plainville and The Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation at Hartford Hospital (CESI) have entered a cooperative relationship to share ideas and technologies that support simulation-based surgical training, including developments that promote patient safety.

CESI offers robotic and advanced technology training to medical providers from many medical specialties. About 11,000 practitioners come through the center every year.

Innovative Medical Products designs and manufactures patient medical devices for healthcare and sports-related surgeries. IMP provides patient-positioning accuracy to a surgical procedure including robotic and computer-assisted surgeries.

The cooperative effort will give CESI access to IMP’s portfolio of patient-positioning devices, as well as the opportunity to work with IMP on developing positioning equipment specifically related to CESI’s simulation-based training needs. IMP will be able to meet CESI’s broad range of clients interested in the latest advancements in surgical procedures including patient-positioning solutions.