Artisight Expands Collaborations with NVIDIA and KARL STORZ for Smart Operating Rooms

Smart Hospital Platform provider Artisight Inc. is bolstering its collaboration with KARL STORZ and NVIDIA to provide the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solutions to smart operating rooms (ORs).

This collaboration builds upon the existing work between Artisight and KARL STORZ to integrate NVIDIA’s advanced AI computing platform to drive real-time surgical insights, automation, and enhanced peri-operative efficiency.

“By leveraging the combined expertise of the three companies, we are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to make an immediate impact on OR workflow,” said Christy Gaudet, vice president of Sales & Marketing, Surgical and OR1 at KARL STORZ U.S. “Our collaboration will enable healthcare providers to focus more on the most critical aspect of care—the patient.”

Through this collaboration, KARL STORZ is introducing a new solution for the OR—Pathway.AI—that leverages the NVIDIA Jetson™ platform to bring real-time surgical insights to clinicians and hospital administrators. NVIDIA Jetson delivers high-performance AI compute and sensor processing capability for energy-efficient edge computing devices and autonomous machines. Pathway.AI, powered by NVIDIA Jetson, uses computer vision and ambient listening to automate OR and peri-operative tasks, such as sending automated alerts to staff upon a completed surgery or when an OR needs cleaning.

“Artisight is able to bring these new technologies to ORs and hospitals across the globe with NVIDIA and KARL STORZ,” Artisight Co-Founder/CEO Andrew Gostine, M.D., said. “Providers and patients are seeing improved outcomes and satisfaction scores that raise the standards of care across the peri-operative continuum.”

Leveraging the NVIDIA AI computing platform, Artisight builds on its collaboration with NVIDIA by combining Artisight’s expertise in deep learning and clinical operations to further optimize the functionality of KARL STORZ’s OR1 integrated operating room technology, making ORs more intuitive and adaptable to various scenarios. “We are not just improving operating room efficiency—we are reimagining the entire surgical ecosystem and expanding access to services to eliminate disparities in care,” Gostine added.

Powered by Artisight, Pathway.AI is highly customizable and localized to each operative suite. Localized fine-tuning of each algorithm is essential because each institution serves a distinct combination of patients, procedures, and clinicians with unique workflows. Artisight’s proprietary training process has been independently certified as HIPAA-compliant to protect both patient privacy and clinical autonomy. Artisight plans to continue increasing its pace of innovation by leveraging the latest technology from NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Riva for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and NVIDIA Cosmos Nemotron VLMs to query images and videos.

“AI is transforming every industry, and we are only starting to see its profound impact in healthcare,” said David Niewolny, director of business development for medtech at NVIDIA. “By collaborating with Artisight and KARL STORZ, we are shaping the future of healthcare and utilizing our combined capabilities to help medical professionals worldwide work more efficiently and enhance their ability to deliver exceptional care.”

Artisight redefines the possibilities of healthcare through its Smart Hospital Platform and solutions for virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination. Anchored in deep clinical knowledge and artificial intelligence, Artisight’s state-of-the-art computer vision and robust multi-sensor network adapts in real-time to specific environments and workflows, unlocking previously inaccessible data and ensuring seamless integration into your healthcare ecosystem.

KARL STORZ is an innovative leader in endoscopic technology and surgical imaging solutions across virtually all surgical specialties. Its integrated OR solutions, including advancements in digital surgery, enhance collaboration to improve clinical efficiency and outcomes inside the hospital and across other care sites. With subsidiaries worldwide, KARL STORZ is a family-owned company based in Germany that designs, engineers, manufactures, and markets all its products with an emphasis on visionary design, precision craftsmanship, and clinical effectiveness.