Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center are working with a medtech startup to get their innovations into the hands of health care professionals combating infectious diseases. Carecubes specializes in deployable isolation units — giving hospital staff and visitors safe access to a patient while not worrying about the costs and limitations of personal protective equipment (PPE).
“These hospitals that are teetering on the edge, and where one infectious patient could end up turning the hospital inside out, I really would like to be able to be helpful by giving them the isolation capacity that they heretofore couldn’t afford,” said Carecubes Co-founder and CEO Alex Laskey.
Carecubes evolved from grant-funded research and prototypes made in response to global health crises. The company manufactures and sells an FDA-cleared device that turns standard hospital beds into isolation beds in a matter of minutes…