Johnson & Johnson has bought UW spinout C-Sats, which has created a platform to evaluate surgeons and helps them boost their skills.
C-Sats, a US-based healthcare technology spinout from University of Washington (UW), has been acquired by pharmaceutical group Johnson & Johnson for an undisclosed amount.
Founded in 2014, C-Sats operates a performance management platform that uses cameras in the operating theatre for surgeons to receive an assessment of their technical performance from off-site experts.
The technology helps avoid bias potentially present in internal peer reviews, where surgeons in the same hospital review their colleagues. It also enables surgeons to be assessed…
