Medivis, the New York based firm which focuses on the research and development of integrating medical sciences with Augmented and Virtual Reality is all set to debut it’s first surgical tool in the international market.
The product which is named SurgicalAR will help the surgeons to access the data of the patients and visually represent them in a 3-D model. This advancement will surely help the doctors to plan the surgery way before the actual operating procedure. With the aid of this new advancement, the doctors will also be able to strategize on how to approach the surgery so that it can yield best results.
The company was started by two senior residents of NYU Medical Center, Osamah Choudhry and Christopher Morley.
MEDIVIS was initially started as a part time project by the two partners. The company in the beginning employed some engineers to aid them in the creation of their prototypes. After the showcase of the prototype at the NYU Summer Launchpad event, the two founders decided to launch the startup in to a full fledged company.
Currently, the company’s worth a huge $2.3 million and is in partnership with the leading Tech Biggie’s like Microsoft and Dell.
According to the Co-founder Christopher Morley, the introduction of HoloLens by Microsoft was a major booster for the company. He also said that“The Holy Grail is to be able to holographically render a patient,”
“The interface between medical imaging and surgical utility from it is really where we see a lot of innovation being possible,” says Morley.
The company has collaborated with the University of Pennsylvania and New York University to launch their prototypes in to the operating scenario. The company is integrating some machine learning capabilities to be able to identify the most relevant information from patients’ medical records and diagnostics as they begin to plan the surgical process. According to Choudhry, Medvivis is currently offering a touchscreen monitor, display and a headset that plugs into the hospital system and extracts the medical information to display on the screens in approximately 30 seconds.