Security, objective data and insights, hardware agnostic software, and the ability to record every single surgery - these are just some of the benefits of Proximie that C-Suite level healthcare professionals from the UK and US identified as being integral facets that could improve the performance of their operating rooms. At Proximie it is those benefits we bring together in one plug-and-play platform.
Proximie harnesses data for smarter, more effective surgical decision-making, opening doors to innovations that are challenging and changing how we collectively think about training and delivering surgical care.
“Proximie harnesses data for smarter, more effective surgical decision-making...”
The cloud is the technology underpinning all of this functionality, ensuring the collected data is optimally secure, analysable and shareable. Proximie has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring remote surgical guidance, proctoring and training seamlessly and safely into operating rooms all over the world.
Here’s how Proximie’s cloud-based software can benefit your OR:
Security
Storing sensitive data solely in the operating room is not the safest option; access to data storage in the OR is often not controlled, making it vulnerable to breaches. Proximie, by contrast, is secure by design; it’s impossible to gain access to the system without an entitlement. The risk of data exposure and the need for secure platforms make cloud management of OR data safer than local management, while also making it possible to collaborate with other permitted individuals for training and technique sharing purposes.
In fact, the OR is generally the worst possible place to host data. While access to the facility is somewhat controlled, access to the data storage is often not controlled. All it takes is an intruder with a USB stick and the data is gone. The nightmare scenario for hospitals and device manufacturers is a malicious exposure of intimate video originating from the OR. This is more likely with insecure in-OR devices (either inherently insecure or through lax security) than it is with a secure cloud solution.
Data and insights
By recording every single action and interaction in an operating room to the cloud, Proximie can help to raise healthcare standards through enabling easy, simple, blame-free and objective review and peer mentoring of surgical performance, from anywhere in the world.
“By recording every single action and interaction in an operating room to the cloud, Proximie can help to raise healthcare standards through enabling easy, simple, blame-free and objective review and peer mentoring of surgical performance, from anywhere in the world.”
Cloud data storage is also helping to reduce very necessary but tedious administrative tasks, whilst ensuring that any new or existing AI technology is working for the customer rather than the customer working to fit AI into their existing workflows. Cloud-native health platforms like Proximie have the advantage of ingesting data from various sources, enabling AI models to provide summarised information and reduce administrative burdens.
By doing this Proximie can create capacity for clinical staff by freeing up time to focus on clinical activities, while at the same time broadening access to optimised surgical techniques that are archived on our platform. This ecosystem is creating a natural resilience in surgery, as happens when any given operating room increasingly becomes the subject of a continuous process of improvement, rather than a set of historical events.
"This ecosystem is creating a natural resilience in surgery, as happens when any given operating room increasingly becomes the subject of a continuous process of improvement, rather than a set of historical events."
A shareable library
Through recording and digitising the analogue environment of the operating room, Proximie is creating a wealth of resources for future learning and technique development. In partnership with AWS, Proximie is enabling video streams to be rapidly routed to any participant anywhere in the world, which is difficult if not impossible to do without a cloud presence. Where currently every surgical touch and patient interaction is siloed to one moment in time and then lost forever, Proximie is leveraging the power of cloud computing and artificial intelligence to turn those interactions into archived, analysed records of performance, and channelling that insight back into improving and developing the healthcare system.
"Where currently every surgical touch and patient interaction is siloed to one moment in time and then lost forever, Proximie is leveraging the power of cloud computing and artificial intelligence to turn those interactions into archived, analysed records of performance..."
This is how we truly democratise healthcare - from high-end hospitals to one-bed hospitals in the Global South. Through recording, tagging and archiving every single interaction in surgery, we’re ultimately helping to create a blueprint of surgical performance that can be fed back, via the cloud, into healthcare settings around the world.
Cloud-based software layer on any devices or hardware
Proximie was designed to drive collaboration - the lynchpin of meaningful change in the healthcare sector. Proximie’s platform was built to serve the broadest user base possible and the seamless layering on of new technologies or devices. The key is accessibility; Proximie needs to function in a wide variety of geographical areas, social contexts and environments, but also be malleable to innovative ideas, technologies, medical devices, people, or different pieces of hardware that you might find in an operating room.
The cloud is integral to realising this aim, and - along with software-first design - means that Proximie can plug in to any existing hardware within any operating room and instantly enable streaming to or collaboration with users anywhere else in the world. The cloud enables an agility of interaction with software or hardware that transcends geographical boundaries, and has made possible real economies of scale.
Proximie enables the seamless gathering of data from any new or existing device in the OR to create a centrailsed single source of truth. Changing the once analogue environment of the OR into a digitally-connected and data-driven ecosystem that can consolidate previously fragmented data-sets into a digitised continuum of insights that can facilitate continuous learning.
“Proximie enables the seamless gathering of data from any new or existing device in the OR to create a centrailsed single source of truth.”
Agility to all healthcare settings
Building and refining a technology like Proximie means working tirelessly towards utilising the cloud for optimal connectivity; when it comes to surgery the level of connectivity can be the difference between life and death. The quality matters, the milliseconds matter, and so the experience needs to be consistently reliable, wherever the user might be in the world.
The cloud makes it possible to minimise the footprint of hardware in the OR, meaning that Proximie can run through a browser on any available internet-connected device - so Proximie can be deployed at a moment’s notice, as can PxLens (Proximie’s wearable smart glasses for surgeons).
Access to surgical care is a problem everywhere and it's a problem that we need a solution for. A siloed approach doesn't solve the system's challenge.
By digitising surgery, Proximie is creating a global network of operating rooms interconnected by the world’s best clinicians, where every incision is already informed by machine learning and AI, and a place where every clinician is empowered with real-time diagnostics, data and analysis to help them perform at their best, the first time every time.
“Access to surgical care is a problem everywhere and it's a problem that we need a solution for. A siloed approach doesn't solve the system's challenge.”
