A year after Proximie and Olympus announced their landmark partnership, the collaboration has become a powerful proof point for how Proximie’s software can accelerate the adoption of medical innovation, widen access to surgical knowledge, and help healthcare systems build resilience and scale.
Today, Proximie is installed in nearly 100 procedure rooms across Europe in partnership with Olympus. Hospitals such as Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena in Seville and Klinička bolnica Merkur in Zagreb are already using the combined capabilities of Proximie and Olympus to transform how clinicians connect, collaborate, and train, in real-time, from anywhere.
Scaling access to surgical knowledge
At the heart of the partnership is Proximie’s ability to digitise the operating room and make specialist knowledge accessible at scale. For Olympus customers, this means faster and more effective training on new devices and techniques, regardless of geography.
Using Proximie’s Surgical Suite, healthcare teams are being onboarded at speed to Olympus innovations, such as the ORBEYE 4K 3D Orbital Camera System.
At the NEURORAQUIS conference in Almería, the system was demonstrated live and streamed globally via Proximie, giving surgeons and trainees direct access to expert knowledge, without needing to be physically present.
Building resilience in challenging times
Healthcare systems everywhere are under pressure: staff shortages, increasing surgical demand, and the need to adopt new technologies quickly. Proximie helps hospitals and medtech partners like Olympus overcome these challenges by:
A connected, global surgical community
In Barcelona earlier this year, Olympus hosted a global expert training programme in obstetrics, gynaecology, and reproductive surgery. Using Proximie’s telesurgery and content management capabilities, surgeons shared insights and demonstrated procedures in an immersive, interactive way, placing every participant, wherever they were in the world, at the heart of the operating room.
The first installation of an Olympus-Proximie telepresence platform in Greece at Evangelismos Hospital is another milestone. To mark the event, a renowned surgeon from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (London, UK) remotely connected directly to the OR in Athens to demonstrate real-time collaboration; a vivid example of how Proximie is removing borders to surgical knowledge.
Looking Ahead
For Olympus, this partnership is accelerating the adoption of their technologies. For Proximie, it’s proof of the platform’s wider role: providing the digital backbone for medtechs, hospitals, and healthcare systems to connect, share, and scale surgical knowledge and drive innovation globally.
Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, Proximie’s Founder and CEO, said: “Proximie’s partnership with Olympus has clearly demonstrated the value of digitising operating rooms and procedure spaces. In just one year, we’ve shown how our platform can be deployed at speed and at scale, delivering real benefits for healthcare systems, surgeons, and patients. Olympus is an important partner, but they are also a powerful example of what’s possible when Proximie works with the wider medtech community: to widen access, accelerate adoption, and ultimately, improve outcomes.”
Proximie’s CEO and Founder, Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, says: “Proximie’s partnership with Olympus Corporation has clearly demonstrated the value of digitising ORs and procedure rooms for healthcare systems, surgeons, and patients. The impact of our success in year-one of the partnership; installing the Proximie platform in procedure rooms across Europe; is considerable – reiterating our commitment to widening access to surgical and procedural knowledge, as an agnostic solution for the entire sector.”
