SEOUL, South Korea - UMED, an AI-driven urology-focused healthcare startup, announced that its automated bladder irrigation system, UroRinse Light, has been named as a CES Innovation Awards Honoree in the Digital Health category. UroRinse Light will be showcased at CES 2026 Eureka Park.
Hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), CES is the world's largest technology and innovation event, featuring more than 3,000 global companies annually. The CES Innovation Awards recognize products with outstanding engineering, design, and positive impact across fields such as digital health, AI, robotics, and mobility.
UroRinse Light is the world's first system to fully automate and standardize bladder irrigation for long-term urinary catheter users. The product has already demonstrated its safety through Korea's medical device regulatory approval.
The company aims to address long-standing challenges in catheter care, particularly those related to infection risk such as CAUTI (Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection).
Key Capabilities of UroRinse Light include:
- Sensor-based automated inflow/outflow control
- Safe, consistent, reproducible irrigation cycles
- Closed-system design minimizing contamination risk
- Usable in hospitals, care facilities, and at home
This innovation enables patients and caregivers to perform safe, repeatable bladder irrigation outside the hospital, bringing advanced urology care into daily life.
UMED is evolving beyond hardware into a connected digital health ecosystem.
UroRinse Light integrates with a mobile application and cloud database to record irrigation history and monitor patient status.
Future upgrades will include:
- EMR integration for improved clinical workflow
- Remote care platform connectivity for continuous monitoring
- AI-powered data insights enabling proactive infection prevention
Dr. Myungchan Park, CEO of UMED and Professor of Urology at Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital, said, "Winning the CES Innovation Award is a meaningful recognition of UMED's vision to expand urology care from the hospital to everyone. UMED will grow into a global urological healthcare company that simultaneously enhances medical accessibility and quality of life through people-centered innovation."
