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We recently created a new breastmilk scanning system called Keriton Kare. We co-innovated it with Penn Medicine as the need for a new system came directly from our nurses - They refused to use Epic's breastmilk scanning system since it treats breastmilk as a medication. This is fundamentally incorrect as BM should be treated as a "substance". Epic/Cerner's system do not validate the feeds when you thaw/combine/split/discharge breastmilk In other systems like Timeless or Safebaby - they had to constantly re-label the bottles and the worse is when they had to enter all the data upon receiving 12-15 bottles from each mom every day! So we re-designed breastmilk management - Instead of a single solution, we launched 2 apps - an app for the moms and an app for the nurses. When bottles are received at the NICU, they already have the data inputted, nurses just have to scan them in *like at baggage check-in* Robust validations at every step - thaw/combine/split/discharge No bottle relabeling after every step - the system does smart expiration management Integrated Donor milk management as well And more, we built real-time lactation dashboards, so you can see how well your moms are pumping and proactively counsel them. We also built secured chat and photo sharing tools on the same platform. To date, we have reduced expiration of breastmilk by 50%, helped moms achieve better pumping outcomes and made the process much safer at the NICU. We had a simple aim - not just create the best breastmilk scanning system, but also help improve pumping outcomes for NICU moms. PS: I was a Masters in Robotics student at UPenn when couple of nurses from Penn Medicine came to our hackathon - PennApps - to share this problem statement. I have a background in solving process orchestration problems and I could relate to this problem as my sister had a NICU baby in 2011. We won that hackathon and thus Keriton was born.