Case Study: OptiCounts improves surgical safety with Orangesoft’s digital surgical counting platform

OptiCounts launches a surgical counting MVP in 3 months with Orangesoft

The healthcare technology company OptiCounts faced the challenge of preventing retained surgical items, a serious and costly problem occurring in approximately 1 in 7,500 U.S. surgeries. The root cause was manual counting processes in chaotic operating rooms, which led to errors, communication gaps, and a lack of a reliable audit trail. OptiCounts needed a deployment-ready digital platform from vendor Orangesoft to replace these manual workflows while ensuring patient privacy and supporting a pay-per-surgery business model.

Orangesoft delivered a digital surgical counting platform built around a Flutter-based tablet application for the operating room. The solution mirrored existing clinical workflows, providing a shared digital count and eliminating manual transcription. A key feature was a privacy-first design that anonymized patient data immediately. The result was a stable MVP completed in just three months, ready for hospital pilots. This platform improved team coordination and provided a clear audit trail, directly addressing the risk of retained surgical items as developed by Orangesoft.

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