HealthTech March 22, 2021
Microsoft’s HoloLens offered a glimpse of how surgeons across the world could help each other and share information.
Mixed reality and image-guided technologies now offer surgeons new preoperative planning tools, and a means to collaborate and share expertise across the globe.
A recent 24-hour surgery event facilitated by Microsoft featured 12 holographic surgeries, along with roundtables and live interviews on the topic. A dozen doctors from around the world performed multiple surgeries, including a shoulder replacement in South Africa and a knee procedure in the United Arab Emirates.
The surgeons demonstrated how mixed reality solutions enable them to collaborate across borders, access data, and improve accuracy by layering information over the patient as a guide for procedures.
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