I work with surgeons on a product for skill development and lately I’ve had the opportunity to go to a few conferences that specialized in endoscopic surgery.

I work with surgeons on a product for skill development and lately I’ve had the opportunity to go to a few conferences that specialized in endoscopic surgery. There is a lot work being done on augmenting the surgeon - solving the problem of access to information at the right time in the right place would dramatically improve work in that field. Currently, if you’re making a decision in the OR, all you have is your knowledge/experience, and maybe when/if you’re lucky, of the other surgeon/s who happens to be physically available to consult the situation. This is something I witnessed personally when visiting an OR - a surgeon ran in from another OR to get a quick consult on an unfamiliar situation. There are a few products and ideas I’ve seen for headsets which allow others outside of the room to have tele-presence. It’s not hard to imagine how much having an instantly searchable and accessible global knowledge base for an operator would be. The newest methodologies, know-how, research, reference media etc.