On average, 51 Million surgical inpatient procedures are performed in the United States each year. With the increased focus on wellness, preventative, and team-based medicine, an introduction of new ...

The operating room is getting smarter, more effective—and a lot less risky for patients. Hospitals are investing in new devices, designs and digital technologies that promise a new era of innovation ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - A new hybrid operating room in Michigan Medicine's Frankel Cardiovascular Center will allow patients to undergo complex heart procedures while employing innovative imaging technology.

Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., opened a new $3 million hybrid operating room in May, combining the capabilities of a cardiac catheterization lab and the disinfected environment of ...

The concept of a hybrid operating room is new to health care and is an advanced procedural space that takes a traditional operating room and combines it with an image-guided interventional suite. This ...

About 20 years ago, a medical device startup called Intuitive Surgical debuted the da Vinci robot and changed surgical practices in operating rooms across the United States. The da Vinci ushered in ...

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Crozer Health in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, is closing all operating room procedures at Taylor Hospital by September 1, according to WHYY. Crozer Health is a four-hospital system owned by the ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Artisight is the first Smart Hospital platform capable of autonomously documenting operating room activity into a patient's electronic health record (EHR) using ...

Robert Caplan, M.D., chair of the ASA Task Force on Operating Room Fires, said the lack of a national reporting system for operating room fires makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly how many occur ...