Anne Osdoit, CEO of Moon Surgical, explains how the Maestro System may be expanding the surgical robotics pie by bringing the capability to newer markets and how surgical robotics do not have to break the bank.
Moon Surgical recently raised $55.5 million for its robotic surgical assistant, which has earned regulatory clearance in the U.S. and European Union. The startup also appointed Fred Moll, founder of Intuitive Surgical and Auris Health, as independent chair of its board.
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus joins three other hospitals in offering robotic kidney transplant surgery, making such transplants available to patients with a BMI over 40. Historically, those with BMI greater than 40 could not undergo kidney transplant surgery because of higher risks to them.
Health systems filed two separate class action lawsuits against surgical robot maker Intuitive Surgical. They allege that the company used its market power to force them to sign restrictive repair contracts and buy replacement parts at high prices.
Intuitive Surgical is forming a joint venture in China targeting diagnosis of lung cancer by creating new products
The word analytics is bandied about a lot in healthcare these days, and the CEO of Intuitive Surgical explains what it can mean in the context of surgical robotics.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Robots represent a vision of the future, a vision that inspires two parts amazement and one part fear of being replaced by superior machines. In manufacturing, robots have been deployed since the 1960’s to exceed human precision and productivity. This same potential exists in the provision of healthcare, but to date robots have barely made a dent.
For medtech-ers taking cues from the Internet startup world, consider The Lean Start-Up. The basic tenet of this methodology, coined by Eric Ries, is that a startup is just a conglomeration of hypotheses, and job one of any startup is verifying these hypotheses as quickly as possible with a disciplined approach. For web products, this entails rapidly […]
