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Wavital
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OR Black Box®
OR Black Box®

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Description

Product Description:

No new hardware. No retrofitting. Just an intelligent layer that unlocks proactive, precision care from systems hospitals already own.

About Wavital:

Predict risk. Prevent loss.

Product Description:

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.

About Surgical Safety Technologies:

None provided

Compatibility level

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Clients

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Use Cases

Description:

A hospital integrates Wavital’s real-time data platform to stream vital signs directly from bedside monitors. Using the Wavital Marketplace, they access AI algorithms that are initially trained on global datasets, then refined and personalized using the hospital’s own patient data. This continuous local tuning improves prediction accuracy for critical events like sepsis, cardiac arrest, and respiratory failure, delivering instant, tailored alerts to clinicians — all with minimal IT burden.

Pediatric use cases:

A children's hospital uses Wavital’s platform to continuously monitor young patients' vital signs in real time. AI algorithms, trained on pediatric-specific datasets and further refined using the hospital’s own patient data, predict early signs of conditions like sepsis, respiratory failure, or neurological decline. Clinicians receive real-time, patient-specific alerts, allowing them to intervene earlier, reduce ICU stays, and deliver safer, more personalized care to their most vulnerable patients.

Users:

Primary users are frontline clinicians — including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and intensivists — who act on real-time AI alerts to prevent patient deterioration. Secondary users include hospital administrators, clinical informatics teams, and IT staff who manage system deployment, data governance, and compliance. Additionally, researchers and AI developers use the platform to create, refine, and deploy new predictive algorithms based on real-world clinical data.

Description:

Quality Improvement:

-Identifying clinical and operational outliers

-Conducting root cause analysis

-Comparing surgical performance across teams or facilities

-Identifying and sharing best practices

Patient Safety Enhancement:

-Monitoring compliance with surgical safety checklists

-Detecting potential risks or safety issues in real-time

-Auditing protocol adherence

Surgical Training and Education:

-Providing a video library for learning and reference

-Facilitating peer-to-peer learning from top performers

-Supporting research initiatives and presentations

Operational Efficiency:

-Optimizing OR scheduling and utilization

-Reducing unplanned overtime

-Streamlining surgical suite workflows

Performance Evaluation and Coaching:

-Reviewing surgical procedures for skill assessment

-Facilitating targeted feedback and coaching

-Tracking individual and team performance improvements

Research and Innovation:

-Supporting clinical research with comprehensive data

-Enabling customizable projects and studies

-Facilitating the development of new surgical techniques or protocols

Compliance and Auditing:

-Ensuring adherence to safety protocols

-Providing documentation for regulatory requirements

-Benchmarking performance against industry standards

Continuous Process Improvement:

-Identifying areas for workflow optimization

-Driving data-driven decision making in surgical processes

-Supporting ongoing quality assurance efforts

Pediatric use cases:

Surgical quality improvement

Users:

Surgeons, Anesthesiologists, Surgical Nurses, Perioperative Coordinators, Directors of Periop, Surgery Schedulers, Chiefs of Operations/Finance/Nursing/Medicine/Surgery

EHR Integrations

Integrations:

None provided

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Recommended, but not required

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts, NextGen, athena, GE, eClinicalWorks, McKesson, Other, Allscripts/Eclipsys, Athenahealth, Azalea Health/Prognosis, CPSI, Evident, Healthland, MEDHOST, MedWorx, QuadraMed, Self-developed, Would prefer not to disclose, Point Click Care

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (web optimized), Mobile / Tablet (native app), Other

Integrations:

Acute care EMR

EMR Integration & Relevant Hardware:

Use case dependent

EMRs Supported:

Epic, Cerner

Hardware Compatibility:

Desktop, Mobile / Tablet (native app), Mobile / Tablet (web optimized)

Client Types

None provided

Differentiators

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

Unlike traditional EHR systems that primarily document patient information for retrospective review, Wavital delivers real-time, proactive insights. EHRs typically rely on manual charting, delayed vital updates, and rule-based alerts; Wavital continuously streams high-fidelity vitals directly from bedside monitors, uses predictive AI instead of static thresholds, and generates actionable alerts within seconds — not hours.

Wavital is patient-level, device-agnostic, and cloud-native, making it faster to deploy, easier to scale, and far more effective at detecting early signs of clinical deterioration — without needing massive customization or "bolt-on" EHR modules.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

Wavital uniquely combines real-time, high-fidelity streaming from any monitoring device (vendor-agnostic) with predictive AI that delivers patient-specific alerts in seconds — not retrospective dashboards or delayed reviews. Unlike competitors that often require complex IT setups, work only with curated device kits, or are locked into proprietary ecosystems, Wavital offers plug-and-play compatibility, cloud-native deployment, and continuous local model refinement using each hospital’s own patient data. It’s the only platform designed to turn any bed into an ICU-grade monitoring station — without ripping and replacing existing systems.

Differentiators vs EHR Functionality:

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.

Differentiators vs Competitors:

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. 

Health Equity

Wavital’s platform resolves traditional technology barriers by ensuring real-time data capture and AI-driven insights are accessible even in environments with limited internet bandwidth or unreliable data plans. Its lightweight, cloud-optimized infrastructure and edge-processing capabilities allow hospitals and clinics to benefit from continuous monitoring and predictive intelligence without needing premium connectivity — expanding access to high-quality care across all settings.

Wavital’s AI adapts to the unique cultural needs of each community by being trained and refined on local patient data, ensuring that predictions and clinical insights are culturally sensitive and relevant. In addition, the platform’s messaging, alerts, and interfaces are designed to reflect and respect the diverse backgrounds of the populations served, promoting more personalized and equitable care.

Wavital demonstrates a commitment to inclusivity by training and refining its AI algorithms on local patient data, ensuring predictions are tailored to the specific demographics, cultural backgrounds, and clinical needs of the populations each hospital serves. This approach enhances accuracy across diverse groups, while multilingual capabilities and representative design further ensure accessibility and respect for all users.

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