Digital Surgery, a health tech company which claims it’s “shaping the future of surgery through the convergence of surgical expertise and technology”, has announced it has developed a real-time, dynamic AI system designed for the operating room.
The company says it’s building the data to power the future of surgery through its proprietary surgical roadmaps, which aim to aid surgeons, reduce risk and make surgery safer.
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The company says, “More than 5 billion people don’t have access to safe surgical care, with surgical knowledge being one of the critical factors that hasn’t been able to scale globally. Addressing this problem will require emerging technologies, including AI, particularly given that other technological alternatives, like robotics and telemedicine platforms, require expensive equipment or resources that limit their scalability”.
Digital Surgery’s AI platform acts as a navigational system, addressing the countless variables that surgical teams face, from staff turnover, language, culture, tools and resources, to the training and skill level of the surgical team.
The AI technology recognises what’s happening during surgery through a camera view and cross-checks and correlates the anatomy and actions against a library of surgical roadmaps. Surgeons can then see the platform analysing and predicting their next steps in real time.
Digital Surgery was also behind mobile surgical training app, Touch Surgery, which the company says is embedded in more than 160 residency programmes and used by more than 2 million surgeons, healthcare professionals and others globally.
