What You Should Know: - Theator raises $15.5M in Series A funding to support the company’s mission of using AI and computer vision to eradicate disparity and variability in surgical care. - The startup plans to use this round to scale its commercial operations and partnerships with U.S. providers, grow its R&D team and cement its status as a world-leading provider of AI-powered Surgical Intelligence solutions. Theator, a Palto Alto,
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FundamentalVR Expands VR Surgical Capabilities to Ophthalmology
What You Should Know: - Today, FundamentalVR, global pioneers in immersive VR surgical skills training and skills data analytics, announced the expansion of its surgical specialty capabilities with the addition of ophthalmology. The new capabilities allow it to support medical device and life science companies in improving the way they bring new tools and procedures to market. - Powered by the company’s patented HapticVR™ technology that mimics the physical cues of surgical
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M&A: Provation Acquires Perioperative Care Coordination Platform ePreop
What You Should Know: - Provation announces the acquisition of ePreop, a comprehensive perioperative care coordination, and quality reporting solutions for an undisclosed sum. - Acquisition creates a comprehensive clinical productivity SaaS platform, streamlining workflows, and documentation from patient intake and pre-op through recovery and follow-up. Provation, a software provider of procedure documentation and clinical decision support solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital
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After COVID-19, Healthcare’s Next Big Challenge: Reforming Surgery
Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many hard-hit healthcare systems have begun resuming elective surgeries and redeploying surgeons, residents, and fellows back to their home departments after enlisting them in COVID wards and ICUs. These practitioners are returning physically exhausted and emotionally strained from the harrowing experience of serving on the front lines of the COVID response. Meanwhile, they have also seen their training
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Innovaccer Launches Perioperative Optimization Platform for Surgeons
What You Should Know: - Innovaccer launches a perioperative optimization solution for surgeons to realize clinical and financial goals with patient-risk analysis. - The solution redefines surgical planning and post-surgical recovery with machine learning-based patient stratification for optimized surgery experience and personalized patient care management. Innovaccer, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology company, recently launched its perioperative optimization
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Activ Surgical Raises $15M Advance Autonomous and Collaborative Surgery
What You Should Know: - Digital surgery pioneer Activ Surgical raises $15M in funding led by ARTIS Ventures to accelerate U.S. commercialization and European expansion efforts for its ActiveEdge platform, which enables existing surgical systems, from scopes to robots, to visualize, characterize and track tissue, in real-time beyond today’s human capability. - ActivSight, is an easy-to-adapt, connected imaging module that seamlessly attaches to today’s laparoscopic and arthroscopic
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Medtronic Acquires AI-Powered Surgical Simulation Platform Digital Surgery
- Medtronic acquires Digital Surgery, a London-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) driven surgical data and analytics company Digital Surgery for an undisclosed sum. - The acquisition will accelerate Medtronic’s strategy to provide AI and data within laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery. Medtronic, a global provider of medical technology solutions and services, announced the acquisition of Digital Surgery, a London-based privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial
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Fundamental Surgery Becomes First VR Surgical Training Simulation to Gain CPD Accreditation
FundamentalVR, developers of immersive training technology for the surgical community, has announced its platform Fundamental Surgery, which combines virtual reality with haptics (the sense of touch), has received Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accreditation by The Royal College of Surgeons. The accreditation marks Fundamental Surgery as the first surgical simulation that combines VR with haptics (the sense of touch) to receive CPD points. Impact of
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Schoen Klinik Taps PeerWell to Offer Tech Assisted Prehab Programs For Its Surgical Patients
PeerWell, whose PreHab mobile platform helps patients prepare both physically and mentally for surgery to recover faster, today has teamed up with European orthopedic leader Schoen Klinik, to offer technology assisted prehab programs for its surgical patients. As part of the partnership, PeerWell will be used to help optimize the health of hip and knee replacement patients at select Schoen Klinik sites. Patients who schedule surgery at select Schoen Klinik sites will have the opportunity to
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Peerwell Lands $2.1M for Surgery Prep App to Help Patients Recover Faster
PeerWell, a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup provider of a mobile platform that helps patients prepare both physically and mentally for surgery to recover faster has raised $2.1 million in seed funding led by XSeed Capital. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its PreHab platform by launching smartphone based tracking for key orthopedic outcomes including range-of-motion, sit/stand testing and six-minute walk tests. Additionally, it plans to accelerate the development
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