AseptiScope

02/27/2026

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of New England's top medical centers, patient safety is paramount.

Heather Murphy, RN, Critical Care Nurse at Brigham and Women's, is a strong champion for stethoscope hygiene, and is bringing the conversation around stethoscope hygiene directly to the bedside with Disky's national patient safety initiative.

Disky is traveling across healthcare organizations nationwide as part of a clinician-led effort to spotlight infection prevention practices, workflow innovation, and everyday actions that protect patients.

Where will Disky go next?

Healthcare professionals who want to participate:

✅ Take Disky to your unit, hospital, or conference
✅ Snap a photo with Disky to feature patient safety through safe stethoscope hygiene
✅ Send the picture to Disky@aseptiscope.com to be featured

Interested in joining the initiative or having Disky visit your organization?

Go to https://diskcover.com/disky or Comment below to learn how your team can participate.

02/26/2026

📸 Take a picture with Disky and join the National Patient Safety Initiative!

Every day, contaminated stethoscope diaphragms come into direct contact with patients, yet no national hygiene standard exists.

Disky serves as a reminder for clean and effective stethoscope hygiene, traveling with clinicians to healthcare facilities nationwide to raise awareness and champion safer, more consistent stethoscope hygiene practices.

Here’s how you can participate:
✅ Request your free Disky figure
✅ Take a photo with your team or department
✅ Send it in and be featured as a champion for patient safety

Let’s work together to make visible stethoscope hygiene part of everyday patient safety culture.

Request your Disky today and join clinicians nationwide making a difference.

Clinicians, join the National Patient Safety Initiative with Disky: https://diskcover.com/disky

02/04/2026

On World Cancer Day, we stand with patients, families, and care teams fighting cancer every day.

The New Normal For Keeping Cancer Care Safe:
• During Cancer Treatment, Stethoscope Assessment is a Standard of Care
• Stethoscope diaphragms carry contamination and resistant pathogens, just like dirty hands
• Effectively shielding immune compromised cancer patients from resistant pathogens is easy

Introducing The DiskCover® System - PROTECT YOUR PATIENT

Today, and every day, we support safer care for those who need it most.

01/29/2026

AseptiScope is proud to announce a new National Patient Safety Initiative with the goal to increase awareness the longstanding problem of stethoscope contamination.

The medical technology company pioneering touch-free stethoscope hygiene, announces the launch of a new National Patient Safety Initiative.

01/20/2026

INFECTION PREVENTION EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON A HIDDEN VECTOR!

Stethoscopes are often called the “third hand” of clinicians.

Used instinctively, repeatedly, and across patients.

Yet Control Today’s latest expert panel highlights a hard truth:
👉 This everyday tool has quietly escaped the same scrutiny as hand hygiene.

Infection preventionists agree that stethoscopes are frequently contaminated, even when policies exist. The experts emphasize that the issue isn’t awareness; it’s that current approaches don’t reliably fit real clinical workflows.

When a device is used dozens of times per shift, systems must work with human behavior, not against it!

📖 Source: Infection Control Today, Nov/Dec 2025 – “The Dirty Truth About Stethoscopes”

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.