The new year is right around the corner. Before we jump in, let’s take some time to look back at some of the highlights that made 2022 one for the books!
Micromate™ gained planning and navigation capabilities
We strive to make our medical robotics platform the control panel of the entire medical workflow. Adding new features that fully support yet another imaging modality is another step toward that goal.
This year, we launched the planning and navigation station of Micromate™, making our robot the go-to solution for interventional radiologists and oncologists who want to improve their percutaneous procedures in the CT room.
The station was first used in a series of successful CT-guided biopsies and ablations, supporting the planning, navigation, and guidance of the instruments to accurately target the lesions.
We championed true access to medical robotics
Democratization can be more than a buzzword in the healthcare industry, and it is a crucial part of our value-based robotics approach.
That’s why we launched a subscription-based service for Micromate™, offering our full-fledged medical robot for an affordable, fixed fee – and making it easier for every physician to integrate this enabling technology into their practice.
Innovation never stops – neither did we
Our commitment to the continuous improvement of our medical robotics platform remained unwavering throughout 2022.
We formed a strategic collaboration with Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering to enhance the accuracy of robotic-assisted percutaneous procedures, as well as to find new ways for improving the Micromate™ system.
We also implemented the IraSME project “E-GantryMate: Compact MR-compatible device for MRI-guided percutaneous needle interventions”, which resulted in the development of a robotic assistance system that allows percutaneous procedures to be performed inside a closed MR scanner.
We were back to in-person events
After two years of virtual meetings and postponed IR/IO events, we finally returned to face-to-face conversations and hands-on demos of Micromate™. It felt good to be back!
We started the year’s congresses with Spectrum, in Miami, and SIO, in San Francisco, USA. Then, back in Austria, we launched our planning and navigation station at ECIO, taking it on the road in the following months, attending RÖKO (Germany), SIR (USA), IROS and ECR (Austria).
At the CIRSE annual meeting, we introduced the recently launched Micromate™ subscription, which was one of the main topics of our presence at the US events CIO and RSNA.
In December, we supported the last ESIR course of the year: “Reliability in Percutaneous Tumour Ablation”. Organized by the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) and hosted by Prof. Reto Bale in Innsbruck, Austria, the course included lectures on robotic and navigation systems that could help physicians in their ablative procedures – and Micromate™ had to be there!
2022 was indeed a memorable year for Interventional Systems, and we couldn’t be prouder of our team, customers, and partners.
Here’s to a 2023 filled with innovation, collaboration, and accomplishment toward a future of better patient outcomes through micro-invasive interventions!
