Altrix Medical LLC is a rther different type of SBIR involved frm, structured around the goal of leveraging innovative technologies and imaginative ideas to prevent and cure disease. The firm develops online applications and medical equipment with the goal of improving the quality of people's lives. Projects on which the principals have so far worked include a pocket-sized defibrillator that integrates with a cell phone and - in 2018 - release of a free app (NaloxoFind) for both iPhone and Android platforms to assist communities in battling the opioid epidemic. Naloxone is a medication that, if given in time, reverses an opioid overdose. NaloxoFind helps people witnessing an overdose to locate and contact naloxone carriers in emergency overdose situations.
