Summary
- Profile Type
- Business Offer
- POD Reference
- BOIT20230417009
- Term of Validity
- 8 May 2023 - 7 May 2025
- Company's Country
- Italy
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Investment agreement
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
- This company, active in the healthcare sector, offers an electronic headset that integrates into the classic Littmann stethoscopes, which enables auscultation sounds to be amplified and filtered, emphasizing the sounds of interest. This improves the doctor's diagnosis especially in cases of lung pathologies. The company is looking for commercial and investement agreements.
- Full Description
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The Italian company operates in the healthcare sector, with specific focus on the early diagnosis sector. The know-how of the company is focused on the design of electronic and medical devices and the development of the related software. Thanks to a business exchange and student training program, the management experience is based on important training on business development issues in an American university, in close contact with the Silicon Valley ecosystem.
The company offers a traditional stethoscope device, an electronic headset that integrate into the classic Littmann stethoscopes, which enables auscultation sounds to be amplified and filtered, emphasizing the sounds of interest. This feature allows to improve the doctor's diagnosis especially in cases of lung pathologies.
The device provides in real-time 32X amplification and auscultation filtering. In particular, it has the following features:
- 2 filters (80 – 700Hz and 100 – 1000Hz) to emphasize high tones (for lung tones);
- 2 filters (20 – 200Hz and 30 – 500Hz) to emphasize low tones (for heart tones);
- battery (5 hours in continuous use and rechargeable;
- made in ergonomic rubber to guarantee hygiene;
- easy to use control panel;
- intuitive design;
- bluetooth audio profile;
- smartphone/ tablet/ laptop can be used as remote monitoring portals.
The manufacturing process of the devices is partially outsourced. In particular, the Italian company hires third companies to produce assembled electronic component and the external bodies of the
device. The Italian company deals with final assembly, firmware installation, testing and packaging.
The Italian company is looking for trade intermediares and licensees for the product. They are also looking for commercial partners that interested to buy Italian company's shares. - Advantages and Innovations
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Currently there are electronic stethoscopes on the market, but they are self-contained devices.
Instead, the device developed by the Italian company integrates into traditional stethoscopes, maintaining the quality of classic auscultation and making significant improvements. The quality of the auscultation has been tested in a clinical setting by doctors who visit patients every day and make the first diagnosis - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Not relevant
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The Italian company is looking for commercial intermediaries for its products. Specifically, the company is looking for distributors in the medical device and traditional stethoscope sectors who are interested to access the market with the device.
They are also looking for licensees that are willing to integrate the offered product into their own devices.
Investment agreements can be signed with business partners who want to buy shares of the Italian company. - Type and Size of Partner
- Big company
- SME <=10
- SME 11-49
- SME 50 - 249
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement
- Investment agreement
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 006001002 - Care and Health Services
- 06001005 - Diagnostics, Diagnosis
- Market keywords
- 05004005 - Diagnostic equipment
- 05007006 - Computer-aided diagnosis and therapy
- 05004004 - Medical instruments
- 05001001 - Diagnostic services
- 05001003 - Differential diagnosis
- Targeted countries
- All countries