SurgTech 2024: Technology Showcase Sessions

Our theme this year is "Innovating Across the Surgical Pathway" and this reflects the ambitions of the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) in Accelerated Surgical Care which starts on the 1st April 2024. As the NIHR Surgical MedTech Co-operative (Surgical MIC) comes to an end on the 31st March 2024 and is replaced by the HRC, this event reflect on the successes of the Surgical MIC, what we've learnt and how we want to build on these lessons in the HRC.

Technology Showcase

One of our objectives is to showcase the latest HealthTech innovations that we are either supporting or have supported to demonstrate the value of the HRC to the UK healthcare system.

As a delegate/attendee you will have the opportunity to see and touch the technologies, understand the support and guidance we provided, and if relevant, you can additional discussions on potential collaborations with the the innovators.

Please note that the networking dinner is a paid event, and you will need to arrange payment via [email protected] to attend.

Atlas Endoscopy - Changing the game with the most advanced robotic colonoscopy system

The Surgical MIC has provided clinical expertise in the form of colorectal surgeons and endoscopists, first-in-man trial support and patient and public involvement. This also involved collaborating with NIHR Leeds Clinical Research Facility .

EarSwitch - Transforming how we monitor and diagnose health through in-ear innovation

The Surgical MIC has facilitated clinical discussions to identify potential applications and evaluation protocols, in addition to patient and public involvement. In order to take this forward for the areas we identified, we successfully supported their application to the Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) pilot designed to accelerate the development of innovative medical devices that meet an unmet clinical need in the NHS and support their integration into the UK market.

Eventum Orthopaedics - Quadsense, is a sensor technology designed to be used during Total Knee Arthroplasty procedures, to give surgeons intra-operative data on the joint reaction force through the patellofemoral joint. This real-time, patient specific data can be used to aid surgeon decision making on patella resection.

The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care will be exploring how they can support the company with health economics and clinical evaluation methodology, to support NHS adoption.

HistoSonics Inc - a non-invasive, sonic beam therapy platform that uses histotripsy, which is capable of destroying targeted liver tumours at a sub-cellular level.

The Surgical MIC facilitated clinical evaluation in the UK, which supported the FDA application. We are now looking forward to generating evidence to support adoption into the UK and EU market. This technology has also been selected for the Innovative Devices Access Pathway (IDAP) pilot designed to accelerate the development of innovative medical devices that meet an unmet clinical need in the NHS and support their integration into the UK market.

This is what one of the patients' had to stay about this ground-breaking technology.

Holocare - transforming how clinicians see and engage with medical images with intuitive, easily generated holograms for pre-operative planning

The Surgical MIC is the UK partner on a EU Horizon project investigating the multimodal 3D holographic tool and real-time guidance system with point-of-care diagnostics for surgical planning and interventions on liver and pancreatic cancers.

This ambitious program thus joins 13 partners from 10 European countries in an exceptional collaborative venture to further develop, clinically validate, and accelerate the translation into clinical practice of an advanced point-of-care medical technology for augmented reality (3D) visualization of patient’s anatomy, capable of processing and analysing vast amounts of real-time tissue- and cell-level data, to support better-informed decision-making across surgical workflows.

Ostomycure AS - TIES - Transcutaneous Implant Evacuation System - for patients with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases & cancer, requiring a total removal of the large intestine, resulting in a permanent ileostomy

The Surgical MIC facilitated and is taking part in a pivotal clinical trial of the implant technology to fully assess safety and performance of the technology.

The milestone is important as the analysis of the clinical data from these patients will be included in the regulatory submissions for a CE Mark under the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR). Patients will continue to be recruited during the regulatory process to further build clinical evidence for the device.

MyOpNotes - a digital platform that streamlines writing operation notes for surgeons, automatically captures 'big data' in surgery, and improves hospitals reimbursement via OPCS?coding.

If this sounds interesting, please register here - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/surgicalmic/t-xmjajrm