In the high-stakes environment of the operating theatre, the surgeon’s steady hand (or the robotic scalpel) is literally the sharp end of the process. But in their train lies the invisible grind of hospital logistics, where incredibly valuable surgery resources are often deployed less than optimally as humans try to apply subjective estimation to theatre scheduling and planning.
For years, the promise of digital health has been synonymous with telepresence, often in the form of a “Zoom for surgeons” that allowed remote observation during procedures in the operating room (OR).
