Shoulder Innovations Partners with Interventional Systems for Robotic Surgery Solutions
Shoulder Innovations announced a strategic partnership with Interventional Systems, a developer of robotic solutions for minimally invasive surgery, to introduce a transformative shoulder-specific micro-robotic solution designed to further enhance shoulder surgical precision, workflow efficiency, and enable new clinical approaches in the total shoulder arthroplasty and reverse shoulder arthroplasty markets. Once developed, this new robotic solution will integrate with the company's ProVoyance platform to deliver a comprehensive enabling technology solution, with the goal of improving surgical accuracy and workflow, while meeting the needs of patients and surgeons across all sites of care. With this system, Shoulder Innovations plans to address many of the challenges associated with robotic surgery, including high implementation costs, difficult mobility, costly perioperative inefficiencies, and steep technical learning curves. Innovations' ecosystem is also comprised of enabling technologies, efficient instrument systems, specialized support and surgeon-to-surgeon collaboration. Together, these elements seek to address the long-standing clinical and operational challenges in the shoulder surgical care market by delivering predictable outcomes, procedural simplicity, and efficiency across all sites of care.
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