Apella, backed by HighlandX, Vensana Capital, and others, has raised $80 million in Series B equity and venture debt to advance ambient AI in U.S. hospitals.
The company has focused on operating room management, using computer vision and machine learning to automatically collect and identify surgical case events and autonomously write novel data back to the electronic health record (EHR).
Hospitals such as Houston Methodist, Tampa General Hospital, and Medical University of South Carolina have been partners, Apella noted, specifying interventional radiology, cardiology, and endoscopy as its top three hospital procedural areas.
Houston Methodist deployed the technology in more than 200 operating rooms as part of an initial 36-room pilot, but has scaled the technology enterprise-wide, according to Apella.
