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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers, in cooperation with the Operating Room Quality Assurance program and the National Institutes of Health, have developed software --- named "LevelCheck" --- that promises to provide "safer ways of imaging in the operating room."
Approximately one in every 3,100 surgical procedures on the spine is performed at the wrong place. In an effort to reduce these errors, Johns Hopkins Medicine Biomedical researchers have devised software that, in clinical evaluations, accurately labeled different levels of the spine on X-rays taken during surgery [ INSIGHT, July/August 2015, Published by Johns Hopkins Medicine Marketing and Communications].
Johns Hopkins Medicine anticipates clearance from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to begin working with humans in mid-2016.
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