Frankfort, Ky.-- The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority (KEDFA) approved Xhale Inc. and Connected Patients LLC for state funding of up to $175,000 and $100,000 respectively to assist in the expansion of the companies. The two projects are anticipated to create a combined 21 new high-tech jobs.
Xhale Inc., Bowling Green—Up to $175,000 in the form of a forgivable loan to help purchase equipment and outfit the company’s laboratory. In addition to its HyGreen hand hygiene monitoring system, Xhale is continuing to develop and commercialize other breath-based technologies. Self-Monitoring And Reporting Therapeutics, or SMART drugs, is a technology that produces breath-detectable versions of therapeutic drugs that can enhance both safety and efficacy in clinical trials, as well as in therapeutics. Other technologies under development include a breath-based monitoring system for propofol (the most commonly used IV-based anesthetic agent) as well as a new breath-ethanol monitoring technology. http://www.xhale.com/.
Xhale is developing technologies that analyze a person’s breath and other types of vapors for use in pharmaceutical, health monitoring and diagnostic applications. Xhale’s pipeline products include breath-based therapeutic drug monitoring and devices to replace current blood and urine tests. This technology has additional applications in the medical, home, law enforcement and industrial diagnostic markets. The company’s HyGreen wireless sensor system for hospitals, which monitors staffers who are washing their hands properly and alerts those who aren't, was named one of 2009’s Top New Technology Products by Popular Science Magazine.
A client of the South Central Innovation and Commercialization Center, Xhale anticipates it will create a minimum of 13 full-time, high-tech and technical support jobs for Kentucky residents by Dec. 31, 2011, paying an average salary of over $55,000, exclusive of benefits.
Connected Patients LLC, Lexington—Up to $100,000 in the form of a forgivable loan to help purchase laboratory equipment. Connected Patients is a technology company focused on providing hospitals and their patients with low-cost, easy to use, bed-mounted computer terminals. Connected Patients leases, installs and maintains its ConnectMe terminals, which can enhance a patient’s hospital experience while giving healthcare providers and hospital administrators new tools to educate patients and monitor patient satisfaction. The system can be customized to accommodate individual hospital needs and is able to track the origin of survey and meal data to enable hospital staff to respond appropriately. http://www.connectedpatients.com
Connected Patients is developing user-friendly, bed-mounted computer terminals for use in hospitals. The ConnectME touch screen enables patients to access the Internet and email; information about their medical condition; entertainment content such as games, music, and movies; and a built-in camera permits online video communication. Hospitals will be able to capture electronic data, such as patient satisfaction surveys, patient meal orders and use the terminals to access electronic medical records and order medications and treatments.
A client of the Lexington Innovation and Commercialization Center, Connected Patients projects creating a minimum of eight full-time, high-tech and technical support jobs for Kentucky residents by Dec. 31, 2011, paying an average salary of $61,000, exclusive of benefits.
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