Our Beginning

In his 30 years as Sterile Processing Department Manager, Tony Montano knew that significant pain points were negatively affecting the efficacy of his department and, more importantly, patient outcomes. These pain points were rooted in the accuracy and efficiency of the technicians packing the surgical trays and, more specifically, the amount of time and resources it took to bring someone up to the industry standard. To this end, Tony and the rest of the Traypacer team built TrayPakk to make it possible for someone with no experience to efficiently build a tray while providing tools to measure their growth in competency over time.

TrayPakk™

TrayPakk was Traypacer’s first foray into the world of medical instrument education.

Despite some initial success, we encountered issues that would eventually stunt the program’s growth. Medical institutions’ felt that learning a new program would be burdensome, intrusive, and disruptive to an otherwise “functional” workplace. This issue was further aggravated by department heads battling with the administration to approve the meaningful change. Thus despite promising numbers, Traypakk wasn’t working without the proper training.

We needed more to our solution. So we came up with TrayLearn, a companion learning program.

TrayLearn™

It was clear that there was a need for instrument education, but the way TrayPakk had tried to solve the issue was the wrong solution. So the team decided to make a new academic-focused program that homed in on meeting the needs of schools and clinics. It would still offer an HD library of instruments, but now it would provide information more relevant to an individual trying to learn how/why
to use a specific tool.

Instructor and classroom management support was added to aid in the teaching process without being intrusive to current practices. Students can also quiz/test themselves on most devices to allow for flexibility in/out of the institution. Lastly, TrayLearn made tracking students’ progress and problem areas easy for the teaching institution to monitor.