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About ALTA Platform

ALTA Platform is Able Innovations' powered system for transferring patients between beds, stretchers and care surfaces. It combines powered driving, adjustable geometry, safety sensing and a contactless transfer process intended to let one trained caregiver complete the move.

The platform is designed for hospitals and care facilities where manual transfers create injury and staffing risks. Clinical workflow, training, room layout and local approval determine how it is deployed.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

Workflows: Care workflow automation
Operating environments: Hospital environment
Target markets: Medical robotics domain
Patient transfer
Customer-site use - 2026-03-09 - ABLE Innovations documents implementation of the ALTA Platform at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center for lateral patient transfers; the evidence establishes a customer-site implementation rather than broad fleet deployment.
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Patient transfer
Customer-site use - 2026-03-04 - Lahey deploys Able Innovations ALTA patient-transfer platform
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Timeline

Lahey deploys Able Innovations ALTA patient-transfer platform
2026-03-04 - Deployment - The installation marked ALTA's first hospital implementation in the United States. The platform automates lateral transfers and powered transport while keeping a caregiver in supervisory control. Lahey adopted the system to support patient safety, care-team wellbeing and more consistent transfer workflows.
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Mission Memorial Hospital adopts Able Innovations ALTA platform
2026-01-28 - Deployment - The deployment introduced ALTA into a community-hospital workflow for transfers between beds and stretchers. Able designed the system for one-person, low-effort operation to reduce manual handling and related staff injury exposure. The British Columbia installation extended ALTA beyond larger academic and specialist healthcare environments.
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Able Innovations expands ALTA evaluation and deployment across five Canadian providers
2025-04-16 - Deployment - The participating providers were Bruyere Health, University Health Network, St. Joseph's Health Care London, Nova Scotia Health and Vancouver Coastal Health. The programme evaluated robotic transfers between beds and stretchers in operating care environments. The multi-provider rollout expanded ALTA beyond a single procurement and created a national evidence base for safety, dignity and workforce impact.
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Bruyere procures Able Innovations ALTA patient-transfer platform
2023-02-28 - Contract Award - The procurement placed ALTA with a named Canadian provider specialising in geriatric care and rehabilitation. AGE-WELL and the Ontario Bioscience Innovation Organization supported the path to procurement. The order represented a commercial step from clinical development toward hospital operation of the robotic transfer system.
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