Surgalign Receives FDA Clearance for HOLO Portal™ System, the World’s First AI-driven AR Steering System for Backbone Surgical procedure and Reviews Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Full Yr 2021 Outcomes

Clearance is to be used within the lumbar portion of the $5 billion instrumented fusion market*

DEERFIELD, Unwell., Jan. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Surgalign Holdings, Inc., (NASDAQ: SRGA) a world medical know-how firm centered on elevating the usual of care by driving the evolution of digital well being, as we speak introduced that it has obtained U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 510(okay) clearance for its HOLO Portal surgical steering system to be used inside lumbar backbone procedures. The HOLO Portal system is the world’s first synthetic intelligence (AI)-driven augmented actuality (AR) steering system for backbone and the primary medical utility of Surgalign’s HOLO^TM AI digital well being platform.

“Receiving the preliminary clearance for the HOLO Portal system is a major milestone and represents a crucial step towards constructing the inspiration of the digital surgical procedure of the long run. This technique is designed to enhance affected person outcomes by delivering clever options to our clients, and we consider it’s really revolutionary,” mentioned Terry Wealthy, Surgalign’s president and chief government officer. “With clearance in hand for our steering utility, our near-term focus is getting the platform into the fingers of surgeons as we work in the direction of a market launch. Whereas the present capabilities of the HOLO Portal system have the potential to supply a quantum leap in the way in which surgical procedures are carried out, we now have a a lot bigger imaginative and prescient for our HOLO AI digital well being platform throughout a wide range of healthcare specialties and all through the care continuum.”

The HOLO Portal system combines machine learning-based picture steering know-how with AR, automated backbone segmentation (i.e., anatomy recognition), and automatic surgical planning using proprietary AI software program. Intraoperative pictures are autonomously processed by the AI system to create a patient-specific plan that’s introduced to the surgeon utilizing the AR show.

“HOLO Portal is the primary substantial innovation I’ve seen within the years of using digital know-how in my observe,” mentioned Dr. D. Greg Anderson, MD, PhD, and Professor within the Departments of Orthopaedic and Neurological Surgical procedure at Thomas Jefferson College and Medical Director of the Backbone Part of the Orthopaedic Analysis Laboratory on the Rothman Institute. “The system’s groundbreaking mixture of AR and AI will higher inform surgical selections for my sufferers and in the end ship extra correct and environment friendly care within the surgical atmosphere. It’s really transformative.”

HOLO Portal is the results of six years of growth and testing at Holo Surgical Inc., by digital and augmented actuality skilled Prof. Cristian Luciano, PhD; backbone surgeon Dr. Kris Siemionow, MD, PhD; and Prof. Paul Lewicki, PhD, a pioneer in AI and predictive analytics and founding father of one of many main and earliest corporations in predictive knowledge mining. Surgalign acquired Holo Surgical in October of 2020.

Professor Lewicki, “I acknowledge the ability related to HOLO know-how, particularly the machine studying and AI algorithms and their skill to revolutionize healthcare. We spent years creating machine studying primarily based neural networks to show the pc anatomy and handle particular surgical wants. The result’s displayed in 3D instantly within the surgeon’s sight view utilizing the AR show, permitting for a sublime circulation of data between the system and the doctor.”

“I consider our know-how has the potential for improved affected person outcomes and diminished operative time as a consequence of autonomous surgical planning and intraoperative steering. The system shows the anatomy in 3D, which permits for much less tissue injury in the course of the surgical process, as a consequence of improved visualization,” added Dr. Siemionow. “When physicians use HOLO, they may understand that the system gives them with info they could presently be lacking—surgeons will shortly see how they’ll leverage the know-how within the working room and past to ship higher care.”

Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Full Yr 2021 Outcomes

Preliminary international income for the quarter ended December 31, 2021, is anticipated to be inside a spread of $21.5 – $21.9 million.

Preliminary international income for the complete 12 months ended December 31, 2021, is anticipated to be inside a spread of $90.2 – $90.6 million.

As of December 31, 2021, preliminary money and money equivalents is anticipated to not be beneath $51.0 million after making an allowance for the money consideration paid for Inteneural Networks Inc. (“INN”).

About Surgalign Holdings, Inc.

Surgalign Holdings, Inc. is a world medical know-how firm dedicated to the promise of digital well being to drive transformation throughout the surgical panorama. Uniquely aligned and resourced to advance the usual of care, the corporate is constructing applied sciences physicians and different well being suppliers will look to for what is really potential for his or her sufferers. Surgalign is targeted on creating options that predictably ship superior medical and financial outcomes. Surgalign markets merchandise all through the USA and in additional than 50 nations worldwide by an increasing community of high impartial distributors. Surgalign is headquartered in Deerfield, IL, with business, innovation and design facilities in San Diego, CA, Warsaw and Poznan, Poland, and Wurmlingen, Germany. Study extra at www.surgalign.com and join on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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*Supply: SmartTRAK Enterprise Intelligence.