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MedCity Pivot Podcast: Affordable Surgical Robotics with Anne Osdoit

Arundhati Parmar — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:49:01 +0000

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.

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Moon Surgical Snags $55.5M for Its Robotic Laparoscopy Assistant

Katie Adams — Sun, 21 May 2023 13:55:30 +0000

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.

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BMI no longer limiting factor for kidney transplant thanks to robotic surgery

Emma Bardin — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:19:19 +0000

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.

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Hospitals sue surgical robot maker, saying it forced them into restrictive contracts

Elise Reuter - Medcity News — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 22:02:45 +0000

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.

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Intuitive Surgical forms $100M joint venture in China targeting lung cancer

Arundhati Parmar — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:21:28 +0000

Intuitive Surgical is forming a joint venture in China targeting diagnosis of lung cancer by creating new products

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What does analytics mean to Intuitive Surgical?

Arundhati Parmar — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 22:55:34 +0000

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.

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The Rise of Robotics in Med Tech

Amy Siegel — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:50:08 +0000

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.

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The Three Greatest Pivots in Medtech

Tim Kofol — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:38:28 +0000

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 […]

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