Proximie as a solution to the health system’s challenges: The costs and benefits of doing things differently  Implementing innovation and challenging the status quo within a healthcare system is commonly perceived as risky. To advocate for innovation and change, decision makers must understand exactly how implementing something new will positively impact the most important aspects of their hospital and what the return on their investment will be.    One lens through which we can measure benefits is the quadruple aim for healthcare, which seeks to optimise healthcare system ..read more

Proximie’s mission is to enable safe surgery across the world, but there are significant challenges facing healthcare, especially in the UK’s NHS. We have a golden opportunity to improve patient safety in surgery, but action is required to make that ambition a reality. Since 2015, there has been a 30% increase in the proportion of procedures with a safety incident and in 2021/2022 there were 407 Never Events – more than one a day., with the cost of poor patient safety in surgery to the UK economy is estimated to be around £5.6bn a year. Technology has the potential to change the way things ar ..read more

“Live sharing of surgical techniques is the future of surgical education, replacing the slow, firewalled and siloed repository of information…” Proximie has partnered with Chris O’Brien Lifehouse in Australia, with the goal of enabling surgeons in the region to share their skills remotely and in real-time, and highlight new surgical techniques that would otherwise be siloed due to geography or time.  Chris O’Brien Lifehouse is a not-for-profit, comprehensive cancer hospital in Camperdown, Sydney. From screening to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and wellness, it treats all cancer types ..read more

Proximie’s mission is to reduce health inequalities and save and improve lives, by improving knowledge sharing and access to expertise. As a simple software solution that connects surgeons wherever they may be on any device, Proximie is both accessible and affordable – a solution founded by a surgeon, for surgeons. It is a software platform that allows physicians to virtually scrub-in to any operating room, from anywhere in the world, as well as store all procedures in a secure video library. NVIDIA is powering our virtual scrub-in solution, allowing us to use a secure, low-latency platform t ..read more

Funding round led by Advent Life Sciences. New investors include Emerson Collective, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, British Patient Capital, Mubadala and the Minderoo Foundation. Proceeds to accelerate development and scale of Proximie’s Operating System for the Operating Room – a centralized platform delivering connected surgical care London – 14 June 2022 – Proximie, the global health technology platform digitally connecting operating rooms (OR) announces it has successfully raised $80 million in a Series C equity financing. The investment follows a year in which Proximie saw a significant increase ..read more

Rachel Piszczek is the director of Perioperative Services at the Surgery Center of Fairbanks, Alaska – a remote location that was already difficult for medical device reps to visit before the Covid pandemic. They have now been using Proximie for more than a year, dramatically increasing the ability of reps to provide remote guidance during surgery.  The COVID pandemic made things very hard for us out in Fairbanks, Alaska. We had to cancel a large number of elective surgeries, and reduce our caseload to a very low volume of urgent cases – so that meant we were only doing one or two c ..read more

Under the Johnson & Johnson funded Obstetric Safe Surgery (OSS) Program in Kenya, Jhpiego has been working to improve access to safe, quality, respectful obstetrical and anesthesia care through team-based workforce capacity development, as well as community engagement and strengthened referral systems in five high-volume health facilities in Makueni County, Kenya.  In 2020, Proximie formed a dynamic public-private partnership with Jhpiego, with the support of the Ministry of Health in Kenya, to implement, adapt and scale-up the OSS Program by layering in the Proximie technology to st ..read more

Mr Andrea Bille is a consultant thoracic surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College University. He specialises in the treatment of thoracic conditions and treats benign and malignant thoracic disease performing minimally invasive surgery and robotic surgery for lung and mediastinal conditions. I’ve been recording my cases with my own devices for some time now, and I was looking for a more reliable, safe and technologically advanced platform for making these recordings. I saw a urologist using Proximie and spoke to him about it ..read more

Harvard Business School’s Transforming Health Care Delivery course focuses on the global transformation taking place in the health care industry, with the aim of addressing the fundamental challenge of providing optimal clinical outcomes while keeping costs as low as possible. Course leader Professor Ariel Stern explains the central role technologies like Proximie will play in this transformation. “The Transforming Health Care Delivery course teaches students about the most compelling business models that we see in health care today, along with how to deploy those in practice to improve the q ..read more

Rachel Sterling is Proximie’s Chief Marketing Officer, with a background in Global Marketing roles for Instagram, Twitter, Google, and YouTube.  It is very rare to come across somebody who is as inspiring and filled with purpose to help those in need as Nadine [Hachach-Haram, founder of Proximie]. I was very happy working at Instagram, but when you meet somebody who has a vision as clear as Nadine’s – and the drive to connect that vision with purpose – you’ve got to jump on that train. You can’t let that train leave the station without you.  I’ve had seven surgeries in the last 15 y ..read more