Medical imaging solutions are 2D black & white scans which are used by surgeons for patient education, surgical planning and operations. This workflow is inaccurate and non-intuitive, leading to many preventable medical errors (MEs) and poor stakeholder collaboration. Such MEs are the third leading cause of death in the US. Statistics show that reduction of MEs in the EU would lead to the prevention of more than 750k harm-inflicting MEs per year, leading in turn to over 3.2 million fewer days of hospitalization, 260k fewer incidents of permanent disability, and 95k fewer deaths per year. It is estimated that from these data, about 20% are caused by surgical errors.
Medical imaging has barely improved in the past decades. Most of the medical errors result from the fact that health professionals do not have access to proper visual tools during complicative interventions. In neurosurgery, for example, surgeons have to look away from the patient for extremely delicate navigation, which, clearly, complicates such intricate surgeries even further. This is true for many other surgical fields as well. New imaging hardware are extremely expensive and complex and not affordable for many clinical centres. This demonstrably hampers understanding of the disease, which interferes with shared decision making, an increasingly important aspect in treatment planning.
Augmedit develops the Lumi Elite AR SaaS platform for medical specialists, 3DLabs and patients. Our core goals are to enable users to see more, understand better and communicate easier with the most competitively priced product on the market. Lumi Elite for the first time enables intuitive intraoperative 3D guidance using AR which solves bottlenecks for surgeons during interventions, thereby reducing medical errors. Simulations of intervention strategies aid in preparation and planning. 2D scans are automatically converted into a 3D hologram and stored in our cloud. Relevant anatomical structures are automatically segmented using AI. All stakeholders are connected throughout the workflow with seamless AR collaboration. We enable shared decision making with intuitive and easy-to-use functionality. This holographic experience accelerates the insights of stakeholders, thereby improving the whole clinical workflow and outcome of patients: 1 hologram is worth a 1000 scans.
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