Emergency medicine innovations is a life sciences startup that is paving the way for actively cooled portable cold storage options for the military, the healthcare industry, and first responders. Certain medications and blood products need to be maintained at a specific temperature or else they spoil. Current actively cooled options weigh in excess of 20 pounds and are about the size of a hard-shell yeti cooler, while the passively cooled options, similar to an icepack, have a limited cooling ability. Our product is slightly larger than a Nalgene bottle and weighs less than 5 pounds, making the transportation of whole blood, blood components, and medications feasible. After conducting customer discovery with one of the largest fire departments in the United States, the Houston Fire Department, the resounding consensus is that the cold storage options used by essentially all fire departments are bulky, unreliable, and difficult to use. The primary complaint among paramedics was the lack of portability. Our grab and go form factor makes transportation in austere environments and situations effortless.
The Houston Fire Department was so impressed by the product we are developing, they offered to conduct department wide beta testing upon completion of the functional prototype. We have already conducted proof of concept testing that outpaced our expectations. Our path to revenue includes completion of the functional prototype that is already under construction. After conducting a thorough patent search with a patent attorney from the SBDC tech team, we have determined that we have a clear path to intellectual property. In addition to the hardware product, a web-based software as a service will be offered to customers that wish to track the real time temperature data, location, and chain of custody of the cold storage device and the contents inside.
EMI is determined to deliver innovative, lifesaving technologies to the EMS industry and the military.