Summary: Karl Storz’s Pathway.AI, powered by Artisight’s Smart Hospital Platform, uses real-time AI analysis to improve operating room efficiency, reduce turnover times, and minimize manual tasks. Highly customizable and privacy-focused, this solution advances surgical workflows, allowing healthcare providers to focus on patient care and fostering enterprise-wide smart automation.

Key Takeaways:

  • Pathway.AI integrates advanced AI technologies into the OR, streamlining workflows, reducing manual tasks, and increasing overall operational efficiency.
  • The system’s customization, privacy safeguards, and data-driven insights empower clinicians to focus more on patient care, supporting a broader move toward comprehensive smart automation in healthcare.

Karl Storz United States announced the US launch of Pathway.AI, a new tool powered by the Artisight Smart Hospital Platform. By detecting and responding to status changes in the OR, Pathway.AI is designed to help reduce turnover times and eliminate many manual tasks, thereby enhancing OR efficiency and increasing data accuracy.

“Artisight’s expertise in healthcare AI is the perfect complement to Karl Storz’s proven abilities in transforming the surgical suite,” said Connie Padden, Director, OR1 Technology Integration at Karl Storz United States. “Bringing the Pathway.AI automation solution to market will allow us both to provide new value to clinicians in the mission-critical OR environment.”

Real-Time OR Workflow Analysis

Artisight’s technology uses ambient sensors, microphones, and machine-learning algorithms to monitor and analyze OR workflow activities in real-time. By providing automated capture of operational data, it enables healthcare professionals to streamline processes, prevent delays, and optimize resource utilization. This should result in faster OR turnover, allowing hospitals to potentially accommodate more surgeries and better allocate staff, according to the company.

“This partnership between Artisight and Karl Storz represents a pivotal moment in scaling artificial intelligence in healthcare,” said Andrew Gostine, MD, MBA, co-founder and chief executive officer of Artisight. “Too often, great artificial intelligence capabilities fail to achieve broad clinical adoption. By combining Artisight’s AI-driven Smart Hospital Platform with Karl Storz’s global prowess in operating room technologies, we’re reimagining the entire surgical ecosystem, starting with the delivery of operational efficiencies. Our collaboration will empower healthcare providers with real-time insights and automation, allowing them to focus more on patient care and less on clerical tasks.”

Customization and Privacy Protections

Pathway.AI is highly customizable and localized to each OR. Localization of the AI algorithm is essential because each institution serves a unique set of patients, and each OR is used for different types of procedures. It allows the system to maximize accuracy and combat model drift and bias. The HIPAA-compliant technology also respects OR sensitivity, applying numerous real-time privacy filters to ensure that all patient and clinician information stays protected.

“Pathway.AI serves as an important step toward a comprehensive, enterprise-wide smart automation solution through the combination of Artisight in patient rooms and clinics and Karl Storz in the OR,” said Martin. “It’s part of our ongoing effort at Karl Storz to automate and simplify workflow in the surgical suite as much as possible so that clinicians have more time to spend directly with patients, delivering effective and personalized care—and we’re excited to continue that journey with Artisight.”