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“The IV device had been on the market for
several years, and I thought there would be
one for oral pain tabs,” Conley said. “But
when I discovered there wasn’t one, I decided
patients really needed this. This was the gen-
esis of the development of our current device
on the market.”
Using her research background as a biochem-
ist to gain the funding to get started, Conley
and her team gathered data from patients and
the current procedures within medicine to
change paradigms in health care by demon-
strating that her breakthrough is better than
the current method.
“The existing approach in this case is the man-
ual delivery of pain medicine by the nursing
staff when the patient asks for it versus having
a medical device at the bedside that the pa-
tient can access when they need it,” she said.
“We have demonstrated through our research
that patients who use this device compared to
the manual delivery of medication simply do
better.”