The OR Black Box is an innovative AI-driven platform designed to revolutionize surgical environments by addressing critical needs in patient safety, quality improvement, skills mastery, and operational efficiency. This comprehensive solution integrates ambient technologies, data analytics, video capabilities, and artificial intelligence to provide actionable insights across the surgery department.
Key features of the OR Black Box include:
-Room State: Offers real-time analytics and predictive insights to optimize scheduling and reduce unplanned overtime.

-Surgical Safety Checklist: An auditing and benchmarking tool ensuring compliance with safety procedures at critical points during surgery.

-Case Discovery: Leverages AI to automatically detect clinical and operational outliers, enabling root cause analysis and quality improvement through video review.
-OR Explorer: Provides a growing library of surgical videos for education, research, and performance enhancement.


The platform promotes transparency, continuous improvement, and care standardization by allowing organizations to compare surgical performance and identify best practices. It streamlines surgical suite workflows, maximizes efficiency, and enhances staff satisfaction.
Developed by Surgical Safety Technologies Inc. (SST), the OR Black Box is built on research excellence through partnerships with leading hospitals. It integrates with existing systems while future-proofing organizations through an open platform for emerging innovations.
With over 80 peer-reviewed publications supporting its efficacy, the OR Black Box empowers surgical teams to systematically analyze and refine their performance, driving continuous, data-driven optimization in surgical care delivery.

Azodha Platform accelerates innovation in care delivery through a modular, AI-infused, interoperable digital enablement platform. It enhances patient experience and streamlines provider efficiency. Below is a detailed exploration of each core solution:

1. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM):

Azodha's RPM provides real-time monitoring with AI-driven insights and seamless EHR integration. This device-agnostic platform supports remote patient monitoring devices and wearables, enabling continuous monitoring and proactive alerts for timely interventions.

2. Virtual Visit & Wait Room :

Azodha streamlines telehealth appointments with a user-friendly platform, integrated scheduling, tele and patient onboarding capabilities. The platform optimizes waitroom to drive patient centric and optimized provider experience. 

3. Patient and Provider facing Scheduling:

Comprehensive EHR integrated or stand alone scheduling for patients, provider operations and hospitals for home care, virtual and physical office scheduling

4. Digital Patient Engagement:

Azodha platform integrates and digitized patient care journey navigation across enrollment, onboarding, scheduling, health goals, surveys, chat, education and more via patient apps and portals.

5. Conversational AI:

Azodha uses Gen AI to enhance patient engagement through personalized care plans, AI assist for various patient interactions including scheduling, Q&A with voice interaction capabilities.

6. Dispatch and Logistics:

Azodha platform enables dispatch and logistic insights for home based scheduling and operations

Through seamless integration with existing systems and AI driven digital components, Azodha ensures that healthcare providers can deliver superior patient experience while optimizing operational workflows and administrative costs.

Azodha platform transforms the last mile of care delivery, elevating patient outcomes and experience in innovative care models such as hospital-at-home, virtual care, and diverse home-based care strategies. With a buy-to-build approach, our platform serves as a catalyst, facilitating inter-system and point-of-care interoperability, establishing a digital front door and operationalizing generative AI. Azodha empowers organizations to unlock the full potential value of their existing systems, while bridging any gaps to drive innovative, patient-centric care delivery.

AI-Driven Insights: Utilizes advanced AI and machine learning for autonomous risk detection and predictive insights, going beyond traditional EHR data tracking.

Real-Time Analytics: Provides real-time operating room analytics, allowing for immediate operational adjustments.

Customizable Annotation Framework: Offers tailored video analysis tools for center-specific needs and metrics, unlike the more rigid structures of most EHRs.

Continuous Improvement Engine: Facilitates ongoing performance optimization through comparative analytics and best practice identification.

Open Platform Architecture: Designed to integrate with existing systems and accommodate future innovations, offering more flexibility than closed EHR systems.

Surgical Safety Checklist Integration: Incorporates specialized tools for monitoring and improving surgical safety checklist compliance.

Advanced Operational Optimization: Offers predictive insights for scheduling and resource allocation, going beyond basic EHR scheduling capabilities.

Comprehensive Video Integration: Incorporates video capabilities for surgical procedures (open, lap, robotic), enabling visual review and analysis not typically available in competing systems.

Multifaceted Approach: Addresses patient safety, quality improvement, skills mastery, and operational efficiency in a single platform.

Surgical-Specific Focus: Designed specifically for high-acuity surgical environments, offering specialized features not found in other solutions.

Research-Backed: Supported by over 80 peer-reviewed publications, demonstrating proven value and efficacy.

Automated Outlier Detection: Automatically identifies clinical and operational outliers for focused improvement efforts.

Surgical Safety Checklist Integration: Incorporates specialized tools for monitoring and improving surgical safety checklist compliance.

Surgical Safety Network: Facilitates cross-organizational collaboration and benchmarking for safety and quality initiatives. 

Azodha Platform overlays and overcomes challenges of existing tools in healthcare ecosystem such as EHR, CRMs etc 

Key differentiators include:

• Modern patient facing capabilities like self scheduling, seamless and secure logins, interactive chat with care teams, voice and natural language based chat assistance, configurable patient app and portals, integrated SDOH support, digitzed patient surveys etc.

• Seamless Remote Patient Device Integrations: Azodha supports a wide range of devices for real-time data visualization and monitoring, ensuring comprehensive care coordination.

• Patient data summary and insights, with personalized patient care plans and recommendations

• Operational enablement beyond EHR based on provider business model

• True Interoperability: Integration across provider ecosystem with existing EMRs, CMS, RCM and other tools enhancing integrated patient care and operational efficiency.

• Dispatch & logistics to enable home based care delivery

Azodha Platform stands out in the competitive landscape with unique features and capabilities:

• API based backed whitelabelled platform enabling fully configurable user journeys and UI configuration

• AI driven personalization and operationalization of AI in patient interactions and provider operations 

• Rapid Implementation in 4-6 weeks

• Buy to build approach reducing TCO by 3X

• SaaS based licensing approach reducing technology spend by 70%

 • Azodha seamlessly integrates with existing EMRs, CRMs, HIEs, RPM, Wearables to streamline patient and provider experience.