AseptiScope

12/16/2025

AseptiScope President & CEO Scott Mader featured in CIO TechWorld’s Top 10 Inspiring CEOs of 2025!

🩺 Ending the silent threat of stethoscope contamination:

Despite major investments in hand hygiene and infection prevention, stethoscope hygiene has long lacked consistent, effective protocols, leaving a persistent patient safety gap.

Scott has built a career identifying unmet clinical needs and bringing evidence-based innovations to market.

Drawing on that experience, and a personal connection to the stethoscope through his physician father, he founded AseptiScope in 2016.

AseptiScope’s flagship technology, The DiskCover® System, is a touch-free, automated solution that applies a single-use aseptic barrier to the stethoscope diaphragm in about one second, without compromising acoustics or workflow.

Backed by peer-reviewed evidence and data, The DiskCover System has demonstrated strong clinician preference, interruption of pathogen transmission, and demonstrated sustained rates of ZERO CLABSIs in a VA medical center following implementation.

🔗 Read the full feature: https://ciotechworld.com/scott-maders-aseptiscope-vision-ending-the-silent-threat-of-stethoscope-contamination/

12/08/2025

In the latest issue of Infection Control Today, leading infection prevention experts reaffirm what decades of research have shown: stethoscope hygiene remains a significant, under-addressed infection risk across all care settings.

The experts highlight several realities that every hospital grapples with:
• Low real-world compliance with between-patient stethoscope cleaning
• Inconsistent efficacy of manual wipe practices due to dwell-time and workflow pressures
• Ongoing challenges with disposables and UV devices that fail to ensure reliable asepsis
• Cultural habits and muscle memory that make traditional cleaning nearly impossible to standardize

The takeaway from the ICT experts' discussion is clear: the historical approach to stethoscope hygiene has limitations that cannot be overcome by awareness or education alone.

This is where innovation matters.

The DiskCover® System is the only evidence-based, touch-free, single-use stethoscope barrier designed to close these persistent gaps by providing aseptic contact for patients in less than 2 seconds and making it easy for clinicians to practice effective stethoscope hygiene.

As healthcare continues to acknowledge the scale of this issue, solutions that actually work in real clinical workflow are essential. The DiskCover System delivers exactly that: reliable, standardized, and proven stethoscope hygiene.

12/06/2025

The DiskCover System handles it fast, easy, effectively AND...VISIBLY! Thanks Cindy!

12/05/2025

What do your patients see when you care for them?

They see you wash your hands. They see you put on gloves. But are they seeing you clean your stethoscope?

A study conducted at the Cleveland Clinic found that while patients overwhelmingly believe stethoscope hygiene is important, only 5% reported actually seeing it happen.

The DiskCover® System offers a highly visible stethoscope diaphragm barrier, easy to apply and impossible to miss.

Show your patients you care with a disk cover barrier!

11/27/2025

This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the clinicians, infection prevention teams, and all healthcare professionals who work tirelessly to keep patients safe through effective stethoscope hygiene.

Happy Thanksgiving from Disky! 🦃💙

Learn more about Disky: https://diskcover.com/disky/

11/11/2025

Today we recognize our nation's Veterans.

Earlier this year, we were honored with the "Dr. Robert L. Jesse Award" by The Jesse Family Foundation, a recognition rooted in advancing care within the VA Health Care system through innovation. Proceeds from the award have been dedicated to place The DiskCover System dispensers in VA Health Care centers across the nation at no cost, supporting safer care for the Veterans who depend on them.

It is our honor to give back to our Veterans by supporting their patient safety.

To all who have served, thank you.

11/03/2025

AseptiScope President & CEO Scott Mader will deliver a keynote address at the PACT Summit 2025: https://pactsummit.com/

"Entrepreneurship, Health Tech, and the Start-up Experience"

Over his 35-year career, Scott Mader has launched transformative clinical innovation in Pharmaceutical, In Vitro Diagnostics, and Medical Device categories.

In the 90’s, Mader spearheaded the launch of Glucophage (Metformin), a transformative and foundational treatment for type 2 diabetes. In the early 2000’s, Mader drove the meteoric growth of Point of Care BNP biomarker testing into acute care guidelines, resulting in a $1.6B acquisition of San Diego’s Biosite Diagnostics in 2007.

His consulting firm, CLINDEVOR 360, successfully commercialized prototypic innovation into explosive nascent markets including lateral flow immunoassays, GLP-1 agonists, TZD’s, and the emergence of high sensitivity Troponin POC testing. Today, Mader is setting new infection control standards by automating aseptic technique as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AseptiScope, a Medical Technology Start-Up in San Diego, California.

09/30/2025

Big News: Our story has been featured by Business Insider!

The Dr. Robert L. Jesse Award holds special meaning at the Orlando VA Medical Center, where the National SimVET Center (NSC) resides. Within this facility, the Innovation Room dedicated to Dr. Jesse stands as a lasting reminder of his vision for advancing healthcare through innovation.

Years later, the same Orlando VA Innovation Center evaluated The DiskCover® System, with clinicians showing an overwhelming preference for its adoption.

We’re honored that The DiskCover System is now recognized with the 2025 Dr. Robert L. Jesse Award by The Jesse Family Foundation, underscoring its role in protecting patients and carrying forward Dr. Jesse’s legacy of innovation for Veterans’ health.

🔗Read Full Article on Business Insider: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/aseptiscope-inc.-honored-with-2025-dr.-robert-l.-jesse-award-for-innovation-demonstrated-to-protect-veterans-health-1035230606

09/26/2025

Reuters Feature: AseptiScope has been recognized with a special innovation award in the name of Dr. Robert Jesse: https://www.reuters.com/press-releases/aseptiscope-2025-dr-robert-jesse-award-innovation-veterans-health-2025-09-26/

This award honors the legacy of Dr. Robert L. Jesse, former Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health and Acting Under Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and a 30-year advocate for veterans’ health and innovation.

Each year, The Jesse Family Foundation presents this recognition to organizations that demonstrate impactful contributions to healthcare innovation that improve the lives of veterans and beyond.

This year, AseptiScope has been bestowed this honor for The DiskCover System, an innovation that is changing the landscape of infection control in institutions across the country for stethoscope hygiene.

VA Medical Centers that have integrated this unique technology have validated its ability to improve clinical workflow while contributing substantially to protecting veterans from exposure to a full range of resistant pathogens during care.

Earlier this summer, results from its integration into a central line infection reduction program at the Memphis VA Medical Center were presented with exceptional outcomes.

AseptiScope has pledged to utilize the proceeds from this award to provide the unique, touch-free barrier dispensing units to interested VA’s across the country.

09/04/2025

🌟 Happy Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Week 2025! 🌟

We're thankful for the expertise, leadership, and dedication of Clinical Nurse Specialists who drive innovation, champion evidence-based practice, and elevate patient safety across healthcare with innovation like The DiskCover System.

08/20/2025

08/19/2025

A Cancer Treatment Center Calls for The DiskCover System!