The Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology spun out the first company to be created from its accelerator program.
The Boston-based non-profit medical technology development consortium said it created HanGenix by recruiting a start-up team with more than 60 years of combined experience in healthcare technology. The accelerator program, which adopts products with a commercialization timeline of 12 to 18 months, provided HanGenix with business development services.
HanGenix‘s product is a system for monitoring, reminding and capturing data on hand hygiene compliance at health centers to reduce healthcare-associated infections, according to CIMIT. HAIs cause an estimated 1.7 million infections and 99,000 deaths each year and are one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control.
HanGenix’s founders developed and tested the company’s technology at Massachusetts General Hospital and CIMIT. They have so far put together two large-scale trial sites and are working on two more.