#35 - Making surgery smarter and safer - Björn Von Siemens - Caresyntax

Modernizing surgery by making it smarter, safer, and more predictive.

This is the mission of Björn Von Siemens and his team at Caresyntax.

By developing a platform that integrates into hospitals' infrastructures and leveraging their data flows throughout the planning, execution, and follow-up of surgeries, the company has established itself as a leader in connected surgery.

Their impact on health systems worldwide is massive and continues to grow at pace:

• +3000 equipped operating rooms
• +30,000 surgical teams served
• +3 million surgeries assisted each year

In a world where healthcare resources are growing scarce and where access to surgery is highly unequal, Caresyntax aims to be one of those enabling a profound change in medicine at scale, for the benefit of patients, healthcare professionals, and hospitals.

By helping them optimize the use of operating rooms, staffing, and costs.

By providing video oversight and intelligence for each operation performed, tracking every step of their execution.

By enabling continuous improvement of medical teams and surgeons through detailed case reviews.

In this fascinating episode of Impulse, we delve into the world of cutting-edge surgery in the era of robotics, AI, and automation.

Björn opens up about the inside story of this unique healthtech entrepreneurial adventure, revealing the challenges and successes that have made Caresyntax a pillar of modern surgery!

Timeline:

• 00:02:45 - Bjoern's story as an aspiring surgeon who shifted toward healthcare entrepreneurship
• 00:08:14 - The idea behind Caresyntax and solving major needs for surgery
• 00:14:16 - The functioning of Caresyntax's platform
• 00:18:07 - Helping surgeons get better at what they do
• 00:26:45 - Giving transparency to hospitals on their operations and opportunities for improvement
• 00:31:55 - The role of AI in Caresyntax's platform
• 00:34:44 - Helping hospitals fight the burn-out crisis
• 00:39:08 - Setting the right expectations from patients prior to surgery
• 00:42:39 - What excites Björn for the future of surgery

What we also talked about with Björn:

• Quantum Surgical
• Intuitive Surgical
• Radical prostatectomy
• Total knee arthroplasty
• Neuralink
• General Catalyst

We cited with Björn some of the past episodes of the series:

• #2 - Treating liver cancer with surgical robotics - Lucien Blondel - Quantum Surgical

This episode was made possible with the support of HLTH Europe!

As mentioned by Björn during the episode, we recommend reading The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande.

To dive further into the applications and use cases around Caresyntax's platform for surgery, take a look at the Resources section of their website.

You can follow Caresyntax's activities on LinkedIn and X, and get in touch with Björn via LinkedIn. This conversation underscores how science and technology are converging to make modern medicine, and surgery in particular, safer and more data-driven.

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