April 10, 2010 — Xhale Innovations’ HyGreen™ Intelligent Hand Hygiene System, a first line of defense against Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI), has taken top honors in the 2010 MDEA competition. Xhale Innovations’ HyGreen™ Intelligent Hand Hygiene System, a first line of defense against Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI), has taken top honors in the 2010 MDEA competition. The HyGreen™ system, developed with ROBRADY design, comprises a handwash station, badge and bed monitor working in concert to monitor and increase heathcare professionals’ adherence to CDC hygiene standards.
ROBRADY has teamed with Xhale on many projects since 2007, and worked closely with them on the design, ergonomics and engineering requirements of the HyGreen™ System. ROBRADY CEO / Design Director Robert Brady feels the complimentary partnership the two companies share will continue to yield many profitable products: “Xhale Innovations’ appreciation and understanding of the importance of design working in unison with technology drives their success in product development. ROBRADY will continue to strive in positioning Xhale as a source for highly desired market-leading medical products.”
“Choosing ROBRADY has been one of the best decisions we’ve made,” says Xhale CEO Richard Allen. “We wanted a highly innovative design that would be readily brand-identifiable, but also wanted a product the customer/user would find to be completely intuitive and easy to use. ROBRADY delivered in every way. They did an outstanding job of helping us with ideation, and integrated the design concepts with customer-driven ergonomics and our unique engineering requirements.”
The 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award winners will be honored during the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East Conference and Exposition, June 9 at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Canon Communications LLC organizes the MDEA award competition, the only awards program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in medical product design. Entries are evaluated on design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions that improve healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that provide enhanced patient benefit and the ability of the product development team to overcome design and engineering challenges to meet the product’s clinical objectives.
Xhale Innovations, Inc. is a subsidiary of Xhale, Inc. Xhale was formed in 2005 following six years of research and intellectual property development at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Xhale is funded by private equity investment, and has been awarded two NIH SBIR Phase I grants and one NIH SBIR Phase II grant. The company's corporate operations are headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, near the University of Florida campus, and the company's production and engineering facilities are located in Bowling Green, Kentucky.