Augmedics

Arlington Heights, IL, USA

11-50 employees

Arlington Heights, IL, USA

11-50 employees

xvision, augmedics, surgical navigation system, spine surgery, augmented reality, image guidance, ar surgery, x ray vision hmd

About Company

With Augmedics, the future of surgery is in sight. The Chicago-based company aims to improve healthcare by augmenting surgery with cutting edge technologies that solve unmet clinical needs and instill technological confidence in the surgical workflow. Its pioneering xvision system, the first augmented reality navigation technology to be used in surgery, allows surgeons to see the patient’s anatomy through skin and tissue as if they have “x-ray vision,” allowing them to more accurately navigate instruments and implants during procedures. For more information, visit www.augmedics.com.

Media Headline

Having closed a $21 million Series B round 11 months ago, augmented reality-based imaging company Augmedics raised $36 million in an oversubscribed Series C financing round during Covid-19 pandemic.

Products & Services

It's time to summarize 2020. Obviously, it wasn't the year we all hoped it would be. Instead of celebrating the launch of #xvision system, we had to face unprecedented challenges caused by the Coronavirus. But even with a global pandemic and when the world came to a halt, Augmedics people heroically executed most of the plans we had for this year. True winners! We sold 18 full xvision Systems, 62 Headsets, to 17 Hospitals, 239 Surgeries performed, and more than 1,200 pedicle screws implanted with the xvision. Invincible. Unstoppable. We are now ready to continue this momentum into 2021, bringing our game changing “see through surgery" technology to more facilities, empowering more surgeons, and truly revolutionizing spine surgery landscape forever.

Augmedics’ groundbreaking xvision Spine system (XVS) is the first augmented reality (AR) navigation system to be used in surgery. xvision Spine allows surgeons to visualize their patients’ 3D spinal anatomy during surgery as if they had “x-ray vision,” helping them to accurately navigate instruments and implants while looking directly at the patient, rather than a remote screen.

A deeper look on how Augmedics has changed surgeon technology. “Traditional systems require you to look away from the patient, towards a remote screen, which is not a natural or intuitive way to do things. The stakes are high with a procedure around the central nervous system, and any error can be catastrophic,” says Timothy Witham MD.

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The xvision system has demonstrated a 98.9% overall percutaneous implant placement accuracy, eliminates the attention shift of referring to a separate screen and adds these features to potentially decreasing the radiation exposure demonstrated through traditional fluoroscopy-based procedures. An additional published study yielded non-inferiority results over published freehand studies*

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*Molina, C. A., Theodore, N., Ahmed, A., Westbroek, E. M., Mirovsky, Y., Harel, R., Orru’, E., Khan, M., Witham, T., & Sciubba, D. M.

(2019). Augmented reality–assisted pedicle screw insertion: a cadaveric proof-of-concept study, Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine SPI, 31(1), 139-146

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Augmedics’ mission is to give surgeons more control by creating technological advances that cater to their needs and fit within their workflow. When we set out to create a better navigation system, we knew it had to be intuitively designed to work within the surgical workflow and align the hands and eyes of the surgeon, eliminating the need to avert his or her eyes to an ancillary screen. Our innovative visualization technology breaks down the wall between traditional navigation and the patient.

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Nissan Elimelech

Founder and CEO, Augmedics

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The ability that Augmedics’ xvision provides to visualize the patient’s spinal anatomy in 3D, coupled with live CT images as a retina display, is game changing. The efficiency and accuracy this augmented reality technology enables in placing spinal implants without looking away from the surgical field - as well as the ability to "see the spine" through the skin in minimally invasive procedures - differentiates the xvision from conventional spinal navigation platforms. The economics of the xvision system are also compelling in both the hospital and the surgicenter environment.

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Frank Phillips

M.D., Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center