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Surgalign earns tech award from Orthopedics This Week

Posted October 10, 2022 11:00 pm

DEERFIELD - Surgalign Holdings Inc. said Tuesday its HOLO Portal surgical guidance system won the 2022 Best New Spine Technology Award presented by Orthopedics This Week, the most widely read publication in the orthopedics industry.

The annual Orthopedics This Week Spine Technology Awards recognize the next generation of innovative technologies designed to improve spine care and the engineering teams and inventors who create them.

The award will be presented at the North American Spine Society annual meeting in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 13.

HOLO Portal is the world's first surgical guidance system to incorporate artificial intelligence and augmented reality.

In order to win, HOLO Portal had to convince a panel of leading surgeons it solved a current clinical problem, improved patient standard of care and was cost effective.

"The treatment of debilitating back pain is undergoing a significant revolution in terms of technology and patient outcomes," Robin Young, founder and publisher of Orthopedics This Week, said in a news release.

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