DePuy Synthes recently unveiled how it is further advancing its VELYS Digital Surgery Platform using digital technology, robotics and data insights to improve patient care. During the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting, the company is featuring its vision for the future of digital surgery with new technologies and enhancements designed to connect an ecosystem that starts pre-operatively and continues intra- and post-operatively.
Through its VELYS Digital Surgery Platform, DePuy Synthes is focused on delivering technology that can better inform clinical decisions across the full care continuum, starting with pre-operative patient selection through planning, surgical execution and post-operative follow-up.
Among the recent advancements of the VELYS Digital Surgery Platform to be featured at AAOS is the VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution for total knee arthroplasty, designed for use with the ATTUNE Total Knee System. Now commercially available in the U.S., the VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution represents the next chapter in robotics designed around how surgeons plan, execute and perform total knee replacement surgery. Installations in hospitals and ASCs are underway, and more than 100 surgeries globally have been successfully performed to date with the system. The VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution has recently additionally been cleared for use in Australia, New Zealand and Israel.
At AAOS, DePuy Synthes will showcase other innovation highlights as part of its VELYS Digital Surgery Platform, including:
- Introduction of VELYS Insights, an integrated clinical support solution that connects care teams to real-time, patient-specific data to help inform decisions pre-op and post-op. VELYS Insights includes two key capabilities: Care Coordination to help improve case management, surgery readiness and workflow efficiencies, and Patient Path Management designed to help care teams educate, support, communicate with, and remotely monitor patients using the VELYS Patient Path mobile app during their knee, hip or shoulder replacement journey.
- New Image Guidance capability for VELYS Hip Navigation, that is designed to offer precise analysis of implant selection and positioning through user friendly non-invasive navigation, pre-operative digital templating and case planning. It aims to help increase surgical reproducibility, drive OR efficiencies, and improve patient outcomes. DePuy Synthes is excited to introduce new image guidance for the ONETRIAL Analysis feature that will now enable intraoperative data driven decision making for patients positioned laterally, in addition to existing capabilities for the anterior approach technique.
- With VELYS Digital Surgery, DePuy Synthes is building a platform of connected technologies powered by data insights before, during, and after surgery, and designed to elevate the orthopaedic experience for patients, surgeons, and care teams. We are taking steps to connect our technologies intraoperatively for real-time video data capture, transfer and display in customizable formats to meet our customer needs and provide a platform to support future development of data utilization capabilities.
DePuy Synthes plans to expand the VELYS Digital Surgery Platform beyond Joint Reconstruction across other surgical areas.
For more information on VELYS Digital Surgery, visit www.VELYSDigitalSurgery.com.
For more information about the ATTUNE Knee, visit www.ATTUNEevidence.com.
