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Touch Surgery
Company typePrivate
IndustryHealth informatics and medical technology
FoundedLondon, United Kingdom
FoundersJean Nehme, Andre Chow,
HeadquartersLondon and New York City
Key peopleJean Nehme, M.D.
(CEO), Andre Chow, M.D.,(COO)
ProductsMedical education
Medical technology
WebsiteOfficial website

Touch Surgery is a London and New York City-based health technology app and trading name for the company Kinosis LTD. The company was co-founded by Advait Gandhe, Jean Nehme, Andre Chow, and Sanjay Purkayastha in 2011. The Touch Surgery mobile app is a mobile surgical training platform designed to simulate surgical procedures. As of August 2014, The Touch Surgery mobile app included surgical instructions for about 50 surgical procedures. As of 2014 the company claimed patients make about forty percent of the app's downloads. In August 2016 Touch partnered with Ethicon Inc. to provide training for General Surgery Procedures and Ethicon's surgical products.

References

  1. ^ "Touch Surgery: the iPad app that teaches surgeons how to operate," by Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian, February 27, 2013, retrieved March 18, 2015.
  2. "About Us," Touch Surgery official website, retrieved March 18, 2015.
  3. "Surgeons develop app to practise surgery," by Parul Agrawal, BBC News, June 15, 2013, retrieved March 19, 2015.
  4. ^ "Touch Surgery: learning surgery on the operating table," by Joao Mederios, Wired, July 28, 2014, retrieved March 18, 2014.
  5. "Operations," Touch Surgery website, retrieved March 19, 2015.
  6. Al Idrus, Amirah (August 24, 2016). "J&J's Ethicon teams up with Touch Surgery on virtual surgical training". FierceBiotech.

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