Surgical Procedural Data Dashboards

Smith+Nephew needed a way of transforming complex, procedural data generated from a surgical robot into intuitive dashboards, easily visualised by their customers via web and mobile dashboards.

At a glance

Government grant

S+N secures a Government grant of nearly £700,000 for prototype dashboard software

Intuitive dashboards

One Beyond transforms complex data from a surgical robot into intuitive dashboards

Handling complexity

Team’s ability to handle the complexity is described by S+N as “astonishing”

New insights

New insights benefit surgeons, with access available via the web and mobile devices

Ahead of time

One Beyond finishes beta software project ahead of time

"Having access to skills like One Beyond’s is critical to our future strategy to improve efficiency and outcomes in the OR. Their work is highly professional – plus they are great communicators, and very easy to work with. They have made light work of a complex requirement, and we’re excited to see where this could take us."

Darren W, Project Manager and Senior Scientist, Smith+Nephew

About Smith+Nephew

Smith+Nephew plc (S+N) is a multinational medical equipment manufacturer – providing products for wound management, arthroscopy, trauma and clinical therapy, and orthopaedic reconstruction.

The Challenge

Each time S+N’s surgical robot is used in a procedure, it generates rich data. This could offer valuable insights to surgeons into operating performance and outcomes. But only specialist engineers could interpret the data because of its complexity. S+N wanted intuitive dashboards to drive targeted insights and help surgeons. S+N secured a Government grant of nearly £700,000 via Innovate UK into the feasibility of prototype dashboard software for future commercial use.

Our Solution

One Beyond created a beta version of the Digital Dashboard web application that collates case log files during surgical procedures. It extracts information used for analytics – and displays the key findings clearly. We also created a beta version of a mobile app which can act as a companion for end-users, so they can access their own data and performance trends. Our team’s ability to handle the complex structure of case files for logging procedural data was described by S+N as “astonishing".

A closer look at features and benefits

Government-backed project had to meet specific deliverables – and money could only be spent with financially-sound British SME technology companies

Our experience as a Microsoft Azure Cloud service provider, with a direct relationship with Microsoft, was important to S+N

Agile/sprint-based product development approach was S+N’s favoured way of collaborative working

Machine learning solutions also explored – to solve other bottlenecks in the workflow

"The information they have to compile and process in the cloud to create the database schema behind the dashboards is incredibly complex, but One Beyond’s developers grasped this extremely quickly."