Distalmotion Partners With Proximie on Robotic Surgery Platform

Distalmotion and Proximie are joining forces to extend the former firm’s Dexter robotic surgery platform globally.
 
The collaboration provides Distalmotion customers with access to Proximie’s healthcare platform, delivering telepresence, content management, and data driven insights. With Proximie, surgeon expertise and OR data can be easily shared from anywhere, generating new insights to help improve patient outcomes and productivity.

“Our collaboration with Proximie represents a stride forward in our mission to empower robotic surgery by providing more hospitals, surgeons, and patients access to robotic excellence. By integrating Proximie’s platform, we are creating an ecosystem that enables greater support and innovation, elevating the standard of care,” Distalmotion CEO Greg Roche said.
 
Proximie’s advanced platform acts as a powerful tool for Distalmotion, significantly extending the reach of surgeon expertise and experience, according to the companies. With the combination of Distalmotion’s  Dexter and Proximie systems, this partnership enables the seamless exchange of knowledge and learnings between surgeons, as well as being able to exchange information between surgeons and Distalmotion to foster greater collaboration to deliver high-quality surgical care.
 
“We are delighted to announce our partnership with Distalmotion, as we collaborate to train more surgeons to use the Dexter system, thus improving patient outcomes and surgical productivity,” Proximie Founder/CEO Nadine Hachach-Haram stated. “The partnership is another step in our journey of digitizing global ORs, enhancing patient care and providing the tools to improve the quality of surgery globally.  We are excited about the potential impact of this partnership and look forward to working with Distalmotion as we provide a valuable solution to increase accessibility to advanced robotic surgeries.” 
 
Founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, Distalmotion aims to establish a new standard of care through robotic innovation. The company has developed Dexter, which helps empowers surgeons by simplifying robotic surgery, delivering excellence, and enabling greater access to best-in-class minimally invasive surgery.
 
Founded by Hachach-Haram, Proximie is a global health technology platform focused on digitizing operating and diagnostic rooms with a mission to deliver a connected surgical platform to help provide quality surgical care worldwide. Every Proximie procedure can be recorded, analyzed, and leveraged for future use to help inform best practice.  By connecting operating rooms globally, Proximie is facilitating a rich, insightful data set which naturally feeds best practices into the entire healthcare ecosystem.  Proximie has been deployed in more than 800 hospitals across 50 countries in five continents, and has contracts with more than 40 major medical device companies—with access to 90% of operating rooms and diagnostic suites in the United Kingdom, United States, and European Union—and been published in over 20 medical journals.  Proximie is the lead author of a new report on “Patient safety in surgery – the urgent need for reform,” highlighting the challenges affecting patient safety in surgery in the NHS as well as potential solutions to improve patient safety.