Nanodropper, a patient-centered, volume-reducing adaptor for eyedrop bottles, announces its new listing in Veterans Affairs’ (VA) GSA Advantage! purchasing catalog, through its partnership with Lovell Government Services. The Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated health system in the United States, providing care to more than nine million veterans.
Lovell Government Services and Nanodropper announce today they have partnered to provide the Nanodropper adaptor to federal healthcare systems. The Nanodropper is the only FDA-listed, volume-reducing adaptor for eyedrop bottles. By simply twisting the Nanodropper onto any bottle, patients and clinicians can reduce the drop-size to just what the eye can absorb. Smaller drops are shown to reduce waste, cost, and side effects, ultimately increasing access to expensive prescription eye medications.
Like broken records, Dr. James Murphy’s patients had been bringing him the same repertoire of complaints regarding their eye drops: the bottlenecks are too big. In an industry in which hygiene and sterilization takes precedence, waste has become a major issue – and the inefficient design of eye drop bottles is not helping.
Now available in eye clinics across 49 states and Puerto Rico, each new partnership increases access to Nanodropper’s value-based care solution for reducing the size of prescription eye drops while also extending the life of the medication.
The pilot program offers patients in the Lumata Health network access to the Nanodropper Adaptor, eliminating prescription medication waste and resulting in meaningful cost savings.
The Rochester-based company is helping people save thousands of dollars every year on their eye drop medications.
To mark World Sight Day, Nanodropper Inc. has developed a pay-it-forward Nanodropper Adaptor program, allowing anyone to donate devices to a pool for distribution to patients in need.
Three Rochester start-ups took first place in their divisions to become semi-finalists in Minnesota’s most popular business competition, the MN Cup. Canomiks won in the Food/Ag/Bev division, Shrpa took the High-Tech division, and Nanodropper was number one in the Student division.
In 2017, while working as a researcher and lab manager at her alma mater, the University of Washington in Seattle, Allisa Song came across an article that stated drug companies were purposefully making eye drops too big, forcing consumers to constantly restock and buy more of their products.
Nanodropper, a medical device startup founded by University of Washington and Seattle University grads, announced a $1.4 million seed round this week. The company makes an FDA-approved adapter for eye drop bottles that reduces the size of eye drops to save money and medication.