TECHNOLOGY
Medtronic started talking to surgeons about key aspects of support that could enable improved performance but where existing technology was a blocker . Over time , it became abundantly clear that better access to footage of operations performed by surgeons was key .
“ Surgeons operate by looking at a big screen . That screen is feeding footage from
There are over
49,000
patients in the Medtronic portfolio a camera that ’ s put inside the patient . This is vastly different than open procedures , where surgeons would operate looking directly at the anatomy inside the patient . Now , they put a camera inside you . Now , they put a camera inside you .” Yet after the operation , that footage just disappears . “ It isn ' t recorded , it doesn ' t exist ,” says
Murgatroyd . “ So we have this world where
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