The code cart that checks itself.
smartSTAT is the code cart that reads every medication and supply in every drawer in real time, so expired or missing items are caught before a code, not during one.
- experienced clinicians missed an expired or missing item checking by hand. smartSTAT missed none.
- less time on cart checks, measured across nurses, pharmacists and technicians
- of staff time per cart per year spent on manual checks today
- Joint Commission survey finding since 2022: crash cart readiness
Independent randomized crossover study, MIT Center for Clinical and Translational Research, 25 participants. Manuscript under peer review.
Voices from the floor
Frontline staff are asking for a better way
Registered nurse, tertiary ICU
Thanks for finally asking us about this. Restocking crash carts pulls us away from patients and it's one of the most frustrating parts of the job.
Where we are
Deployed in clinical settings
Including tertiary-care medical ICUs
Patent pending
Three US applications covering the cart and its tracking system
Built in Ohio
Carts assembled by our contract manufacturer in Ohio
The problem
One of the most tedious jobs in the hospital, done by people working below their license
Pharmacists, materials management staff and nurses spend hours every week checking code carts item by item.
- Labor-intensive manual checks
- Missing or expired items
- Inspecting every cart during recalls
- Fragmented staff workflows
- Inventory waste and limited usage data
Why we built this
One night in the cardiac ICU, a patient's heart rate dropped and I asked the nurse to grab atropine from the code cart. His rate recovered before we gave it, which was the good news. The bad news was that the cart had been opened. Pharmacy had to pull it and recheck every medication with a cumbersome pharmacy system, while distribution checked every supply by hand. The next day I counted how many times a week that happens in one hospital, and how many of those hours belong to the most experienced people in the building. smartSTAT is the cart I wanted that night: one that already knows what is inside it.
Rohan P. Bajaj, MD, MBA, Founder and CEO
This is the first technological innovation at work I have been excited about.
Our solution
Every item in every drawer, tracked where the cart sits
The cart reads its own drawers, so staff restock by exception instead of inspecting every cart.
How it worksKnow before the code
Per-drawer status lights, the cart display and a central dashboard show what is present, what is missing and what expires next, across every cart in the hospital.
Our team
Built by clinicians and engineers
Physicians and engineers with backgrounds at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Moderna, Apple and Amazon.