Medtronic acquires Digital Surgery

Medtronic has acquired Digital Surgery, with the purpose to strengthen its robotic-assisted surgery platform and portfolio. Despite this, Digital Surgery will continue to expand its workforce and additional investment, while remaining headquartered in the UK’s capital.

Surgical Robotics Business’s General Manager and Vice President, Megan Rosengarten, stated: “Capabilities and solutions in the data and analytics space play a critical role in our continued focus on advancing minimally invasive surgery, from education and training to clinical decision support, to reducing cost and unwarranted variability. We are thrilled to bring the Digital Surgery team and their expertise into Medtronic, not only due to the strategic fit from a technology perspective but due to the shared belief that patients around the world deserve access to quality surgical care. By pairing digital solutions with robotic platforms and instrumentation, we can have a big impact on expanding patient access.”

Digital Surgery’s Co-founder and CEO, Dr Jean Nehme, stated: “Joining Medtronic creates an incredible opportunity to realise the promise of reducing unwarranted variability in surgery. We have always believed in computational power and data as 2 central drivers of consistency and quality in surgery. Computational power has impacted our lives in so many ways and within surgery it is almost absent. By joining forces with Medtronic, we will finally apply computing and AI to surgery on a meaningful scale with a goal of helping more patients in more places benefit from consistently high-quality surgical care.”