Medtronic, Vizient Ink Deal for Touch Surgery Enterprise

Medtronic began a contract with Vizient to add its Touch Surgery Enterprise to Vizient’s offerings.
 
The AI-powered surgical video management and analytics platform for the OR simplifies recording, analyzing, and sharing surgical video. The fully integrated hardware and software system is connected to the cloud and works with many laparoscopic and robotic scopes.
 
That way, hospitals can take steps toward digitizing the OR while using existing equipment. Touch Surgery Enterprise is compatible with Medtronic’s Huge robotic-assisted surgery system as well.
 
“Touch Surgery Enterprise allows surgeons to use data to refine the way surgery is taught and executed, and we believe that will raise the standard of healthcare for all,” George Murgatroyd, VP and GM of Digital Surgery within Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics business told the press. “This agreement with Vizient allows us to build on the strong interest we’re seeing globally, to support hospitals in the U.S. who are looking to harness the power of surgical video data and analysis.”
 
Vizient serves over half the nation’s acute care providers.
 
“Vizient’s mission is to help our member providers deliver high value care to the patients they serve. Our ability to evolve relationships with our suppliers is a critical piece to the equation as we look to deliver on a more comprehensive value proposition in the market,” said Bryan Grossman, senior VP, Strategic Supplier Performance & Category Management, Vizient. “Touch Surgery Enterprise aligns with our mission, offering our members the ability to analyze surgical processes that can help advance patient care.”
 
Applications of the built-in AI include automatic blurring of faces and protected information, automatic surgical video segmentation into key procedural steps, and ability to benchmark a case against a bank of historical cases or compare across departments.
 
The Touch Surgery App is free to download and contains academically validated and accredited simulations for mobile training on over 200 procedures in over 17 specialties.
 
“By simplifying the process to capture and analyze surgical video, Touch Surgery Enterprise gives surgical teams a powerful new tool to advance patient care,” said Megan Rosengarten, president of the Surgical Robotics business at Medtronic. “We’re excited about the impact it can make for customers today, as a solution for laparoscopic and robotic-assisted cases within their existing infrastructure, and for the possibility this technology creates in the future.”