Touch Surgery

Touch Surgery
Private
Industry Health informatics and medical technology
Founded London, United Kingdom
Headquarters London and New York City and Auckland and Sydney
Products Medical education
Medical technology
Website Official website

Touch Surgery is a London, New York City, Sydney and Auckland-based health technology app and trading name for the company Digital Surgery LTD. The app was first discussed in 2010.[1] The Touch Surgery mobile app is a mobile surgical training platform designed to simulate surgical procedures.[1][2][3][3] As of August 2014, The Touch Surgery mobile app included surgical instructions for about 50 surgical procedures.[4] As of 2014 the company claimed patients make about forty percent of the app's downloads.[3] In August 2016 Touch partnered with Ethicon Inc. to provide training for General Surgery Procedures and Ethicon's surgical products.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Touch Surgery: the iPad app that teaches surgeons how to operate," by Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian, February 27, 2013, retrieved March 18, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Surgeons develop app to practise surgery," by Parul Agrawal, BBC News, June 15, 2013, retrieved March 19, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Touch Surgery: learning surgery on the operating table," by Joao Mederios, Wired, July 28, 2014, retrieved March 18, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Operations," Touch Surgery website, retrieved March 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ Al Idrus, Amirah (August 24, 2016). "J&J's Ethicon teams up with Touch Surgery on virtual surgical training". FierceBiotech.
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