A GROUND BREAKING ADVANCEMENT
SEE THROUGH SURGERY
WIRELESS SYSTEM
Allows free movement within the OR
POWERFUL HIGH SPEED PROCESSOR
For seamless visual tracking
PERSONALIZED HEADSET
For a custom fit for each user
INTEGRATED HEADLIGHT
Illuminates focus area
BUILT IN SURGICAL TRACKING SYSTEM
Accurately determines the position of surgical tool in real time
TRANSPARENT AR DISPLAY
Retinal projection of all the 3D anatomical and instrument detail in a heads-up display for the surgeon while not obstructing the operative field
XVISION
SYSTEM HIGHLIGHTS
ACCURACY
The xvision system has demonstrated a 99.1% overall percutaneous screw placement accuracy, eliminates the attention shift of referring to a separate screen and adds these features to potentially decreasing the radiation exposure demonstrated through traditional fluoroscopy-based procedures. An additional published study yielded non-inferiority results over published freehand studies**Molina CA, Phillips FM, Colman MW, Ray WZ, Khan M, Orru' E, Poelstra K, Khoo L. A cadaveric precision and accuracy analysis of augmented reality-mediated percutaneous pedicle implant insertion. J Neurosurg Spine. 2020 Oct 30:1-9. doi: 10.3171/2020.6.SPINE20370. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33126206.
SURGEON CONTROL
The intuitive design aligns the hands and eyes of the surgeon, eliminating the need to avert their eyes to an ancillary screen. The technology provides “tip of the spear” visualization, breaking down the wall between traditional navigation and the patient.
3D ANATOMY VISUALIZATION
Allows surgeons to accurately guide instruments and implants intraoperatively, in real time, while looking directly at the patient, as if they had “x-ray vision” and is cleared for use in open and percutaneous cases.
WEARABLE GUIDANCE TECH
Traditional line of sight issues between the IR camera and markers are eliminated. The xvision system provides a linear working environment within the surgeon’s field of sight with the AR headset.
MINIMAL OR FOOTPRINT
Liberate the surgical field with a system that only consists of a wearable surgeon headset and markers. Provides quick registration process of patient data and surgical tools.
ECONOMICAL INVESTMENT
Augmedics aims to increase accessibility of its cutting-edge technologies to surgeons, by providing the xvision system at a fraction of the cost of traditional navigation and robotics. The xvision system is agnostic to any spine pedicle screw implant and any intraoperative CT scanner used in surgery.
ABOUT
AUGMEDICS
Augmedics (Chicago, IL) is an augmented reality surgical navigation pioneer that aims to improve surgery outcomes with cutting edge AR technologies that solve unmet clinical needs and instill technological confidence in the surgical workflow. The medtech company’s FDA-cleared revolutionary xvision Spine System®, the first augmented reality surgical guidance system, allows surgeons to “see” the patient’s anatomy through skin and tissue as if they have “x-ray vision,” and to accurately navigate instruments and implants during spine procedures. Augmedics has received numerous honors, including being named a 2021 Index Awards Finalist, a Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards 2021 Finalist, and one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2020.
LEADERSHIP
KEVIN HYKES
President & Chief Executive Officer
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Kevin Hykes is an accomplished medical device industry executive with 30 years’ experience successfully commercializing novel therapies on a global basis. Kevin spent 17 years at Medtronic and has since led six medical device startups, with a significant track record of delivering investor value.
RAJ ASARPOTA
Chief Financial Officer
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Raj is a seasoned healthcare finance executive with 28 years of experience in Medical devices, Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals and MedTech in both public and private equity companies. With his leadership, many of these companies have experienced growth with exits resulting in huge shareholder value creation.
TAMI HAREL
EVP RA, CA & QA
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Dr. Harel has extensive leadership experience in medical device product management including: R&D, pre-clinical studies, clinical strategy and studies design, establishing regulatory strategies and submissions to regulatory authorities world wide.
REED KRIDER
Chief Marketing Officer
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Prior to joining Augmedics, Reed spent 17 years at Medtronic in a variety of marketing and sales leadership roles, including three years as Vice President of Strategic Marketing and six years as Regional Vice President of Sales in the Restorative Therapies Group, which includes Spine, Navigation, Imaging, Robotics, and Neurosurgery.
CHEN LANDOY-EINI
EVP Human Resources
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Chen is an experienced senior HR leader with over 20 years of experience. As a strong business development professional, Chen specializes in leading organizational change and driving leadership development to meet business goals. Chen is dedicated to building cohesive teams and strong company culture.
CHRISTIAN BABINI
EVP Sales
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Christian brings over 25 years of experience as medical device sales leader. Most recently, he served as VP of Capital Sales at Outset Medical (IPO 2020). His prior roles include leading sales organizations at Ekso Bionics, Medtech Surgical (Zimmer Biomet 2016), Intuitive Surgical, and US Surgical.
ANNA RAZ
Chief Operations Officer
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Anna has over 15 years of experience in the medical device industry. Her core expertise is building operations from scratch with a focus on technology and quality while scaling it from a small start-up to a global company. She holds her Finance and Economics Bachelor's, and Masters in Logistics and Supply Chain.
STUART WOLF
Chief Technology Officer
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Stuart specializes in new technology and medical devices. He has proven ability in software development, machine learning, image/signal processing and team leadership to successfully manage global development and create innovative products.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
RICK ANDERSON
Chairman of the Board
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Rick Anderson is the Chairman and Managing Director of Revival Healthcare Capital. He brings more than three decades of experience as an executive, investor, and board member for emerging growth and market-leading healthcare companies.
KEVIN HYKES
President & Chief Executive Officer
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Kevin Hykes is an accomplished medical device industry executive with 30 years’ experience successfully commercializing novel therapies on a global basis. Kevin spent 17 years at Medtronic and has since led six medical device startups, with a significant track record of delivering investor value.
BEAT MERZ
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Beat Merz, with 35 years experience, is a Managing Director at New Harbor Venture Partners, a placement agent focused on venture- and private-equity backed healthcare companies. Beat is also active as business angel and currently serves on the boards of Augmedics, XR-Invest and as Chairman of Mininavident.
TIMOTHY MURAWSKI
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Tim has over 20 years of management experience and a proven track record of introducing disruptive technology in the robotic surgery market and creating new markets globally. His most recent endeavor included commercializing the Mazor Robot.
BRADLEY PADDOCK
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Bradley Paddock serves as President & Chief Executive Officer for CeQur. Paddock brings a track record of commercial medtech successes, notably leading sales up to $600 million during his eight-year tenure at Kyphon, Inc. Paddock also managed successful commercial operations for multiple industry-leading companies, including Stryker, Bausch + Lomb, Inc. and Medtronic, Inc.
BRUCE ROBERTSON
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Bruce Robertson is a Managing Director at H.I.G. Capital, a $47 billion global private equity firm, where he is the co-head of H.I.G.’s dedicated healthcare fund, H.I.G. BioHealth Partners. Bruce has been active in the life sciences sector for more than 30 years and currently serves on the boards of CardioFocus, Exagen, Zerigo Health, Augmedics, and Iconic Therapeutics.
NADAV TOMER
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Nadav Tomer is an accomplished MedTech industry executive with more than 21 years experience in Cardiovascular, Electrophysiology, Diabetes, Orthopedics and Spine. Nadav has worked and lived in Israel, Europe and the USA and has most recently served as Global President, Spine, Depuy Synthes Companies at Johnson & Johnson.
LATEST NEWS
PRESS RELEASES
- Augmedics launches new features, new indications in expansion of xvision augmented reality platform
- Augmedics marks 3,000 patients & counting for xvision surgical navigation system
- Augmedics awarded Federal Supply Schedule Contract to bring ‘augmented reality spine surgery’ to VA
- Augmented reality pioneer Augmedics celebrates completion of 2,000th commercial xvision case
- Augmented Reality Pioneer Augmedics Adds Former DePuy Synthes President to Board of Directors
- Augmented Reality Pioneer Augmedics Announces New CEO in Support of Accelerating Growth
- Augmented Reality Pioneer Augmedics Announces Raj Asarpota as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
- Augmented Reality Pioneer Augmedics Announces New Board Leadership
- Augmedics, Augmented Reality Surgical Image Guidance Pioneer, Raises $36 Million in Series C Fundraising
- Dr. Frank Phillips is First in the World to Use Augmented Reality Surgical Guidance in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
- Augmedics Employees Lead $15 Million Series B Financing to Secure and Successfully Launch Company Amid COVID-19 Crisis
- First Augmented Reality Spine Surgery Using FDA-Cleared Augmedics xvision™ Spine System Completed in U.S.
- Augmedics Announces FDA 510K Clearance and U.S. Launch of xvision™, the First Augmented Reality Guidance System for Surgery
- Augmedics Begins First-in-Human Clinical Trial of xvision-spine (XVS) Augmented-Reality Surgical Navigation System
- Augmedics Secures $8.3 Million in Series A Funding for Augmented-Reality Surgical Visualization System
PUBLISHED STUDIES
- In Human Report of S2 Alar Iliac Screw Placement Using Augmented Reality Assistance Judy B, et al: In-Human Report of S2 Alar-Iliac Screw Placement Using Augmented Reality Assistance. Operative Neurosurgery. 2023 Jan; 24(1):p 68-73.
- Augmented Reality in Spine Surgery: Current State of the Art Rush AJ III, et al: Augmented reality in spine surgery: Current state of the art. Int J Spine Surg 2022 Oct 20; 16(5)1-6.
- Augmented reality in minimally invasive spine surgery: early efficiency and complications of percutaneous pedicle screw instrumentation Butler A, et al: The arrival of augmented reality in MIS: initial results of use for percutaneous pedicle screw instrumentation. The Spine Journal. 2022 Sep 28;S1529-9430
- Augmented Reality-Assisted Spine Surgery: An Early Experience Demonstrating Safety and Accuracy with 218 Screws Bhatt F, et al: Augmented Reality-Assisted Spine Surgery: An Early Experience Demonstrating Safety and Accuracy with 218 Screws. Glob. Spine J 2022;(0(0):1-6.
- The XVS System During Open and Spinal Fixation Procedures in Patients Requiring Pedicle Screw Placement in the Lumbosacral Spine Harel R, et al: The XVS System During Open and Spinal Fixation Procedures in Patients Requiring Pedicle Screw Placement in the Lumbosacral Spine. World Neurosurg. 2022 Aug;164:e1226-1232.
- First in-human report of the clinical accuracy of thoracolumbar percutaneous pedicle screw placement using augmented reality guidance Yahanda A, et al: First in-human report of the clinical accuracy of thoracolumbar percutaneous pedicle screw placement using augmented reality guidance. Neurosurg Focus 2021 Aug; 51(2): E10.
- A cadaveric precision and accuracy analysis of augmented reality-mediated percutaneous pedicle implant insertion Molina CA, et al: A cadaveric precision and accuracy analysis of augmented reality-mediated percutaneous pedicle implant insertion. J Neurosurg Spine 2020 Oct 30; 34(2):316-324.
- Augmented reality-assisted pedicle screw insertion: a cadaveric proof-of-concept study Molina CA, et al: Augmented reality-assisted pedicle screw insertion: a cadaveric proof-of-concept study. J. Neurosurg 2019 Ma 29; 31(1):139-146.
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