Blog

3 Critical Considerations for Storing Surgical Video Data In the digital age, hospitals increasingly rely on data to enhance patient care and streamline operations. A critical decision for hospitals, especially when dealing with sensitive surgical data, is choosing between on-premise storage and cloud storage. Each option has its own set of advantages and disadvantages, particularly...

Simply capturing surgical video isn’t enough Surgical video capture is not new. It’s been around for quite some time, and as expected, many surgical camera vendors have their own capture solutions. They have varying levels of automation and widely varying technological capabilities, but they all serve a similar purpose – to help sell more cameras....

One operating room, dozens of surgical hardware vendors Operating rooms are filled with hardware from dozens of vendors – different camera vendors, device vendors, consumable vendors, the list goes on. Take camera systems, for example. You have robotic systems (with many more coming to market), straight-stick laparoscopic towers, and flexible endoscopic towers. Sometimes, all in...

De-Identification in Surgical Video​: What You Need to Know As recording surgical procedures quickly becomes the standard of care in the field, maintaining patient and staff privacy within recordings is an issue that all institutions should carefully consider to ensure regulatory compliance and ethical practices. For video footage, maintaining privacy means de-identifying those who …

The Key to Surgical Video Recording Success is Automation Recording intraoperative surgical video and using an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to analyze recorded content is quickly becoming standard practice in operating rooms across the country. If your hospital or healthcare organization is embarking on the quality improvement journey offered by such platforms, it’s critical to...

What Surgeons and Administrators Need to Know About Recording Surgical Recording intraoperative video is not a new concept, especially for those who perform laparoscopic or robotic procedures. However, as the practice of surgery continues to evolve by incorporating advanced technologies, such as AI, into everyday care, the role of intraoperative video recording will need to...