Baton Rouge General’s Advanced Robotics Institute installed and is using Intuitive HUB, a digital platform that helps care teams collaborate over video in real-time for consultation and case observations. The platform allows physicians to share content with colleagues to improve patient outcomes and for training purposes.
The HUB platform integrates with the da Vinci robotic surgery system to capture and share imaging and can be used for any procedure performed using the da Vinci robot. In the future, the platform will have artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, with the ability to track hand motion and instrument usage during a procedure to make surgery safer and more efficient.
BRG has four da Vinci robots in all, and surgery cases using them have grown by 70% over the last year. The da Vinci robotic surgery system is used for many types of general surgery, and for a host of specialties including cardiothoracic, gastroenterology, oncology, urology, and gynecology. They allow the surgeon’s hand movements to be translated into smaller, precise movements of tiny instruments inside the patient’s body.