Onkos Launches Personalized Instrumentation Trays

Parsippany, New Jersey-based Onkos Surgical, Inc. has announced the launch of MyTray, a fully integrated personal surgical planning program that aims to save time and other resources. According to the company, MyTray leverages preoperative imaging and the precision of surgeon-specific procedural requirements, all delivered in the convenience of personalized instrumentation trays.

“We continue to invest heavily in our uDesign digital health platform with our focus on Precision Oncology,” said Patrick Treacy, Onkos CEO and co-founder. “Our approach is customer centric and we continue to expand our products and services based on surgeon need and feedback. With this platform, we can increase personalization, reduce complexity and bring meaningful innovation for our customers and their patients in a market that has been largely ignored for the last twenty years.”

Steven Gitelis, M.D., Onkos Surgical chief medical officer and associate chief medical officer at Rush University said, “Current work flow in orthopedic tumor and revision surgeries can be challenging based on the complexity of the procedures. Sick patients with high risks of infection, complex surgical procedures and inconsistency in surgical support staff can influence surgical outcomes. The MyTray solution may reduce unnecessary intraoperative complexity for the surgeon, create consistency for staff and improve surgical workflow.”

“The MyTray solution will streamline my surgeries,” said Jorge Casas-Ganem, M.D., Founder of Dallas Sarcoma Associates. “I expect that having a personalized, patient-specific surgical plan that is based on the unique needs of the case will simplify instrumentation, eliminate redundancy in surgical pans, and reduce waste, resulting in shorter operative times, decreased turnover times between cases, and reduced incidence of lost or misplaced instruments processed through the sterile processing department. Optimal efficiency in the OR is extremely important for these debilitated and immunosuppressed patients.”

“The MyTray solution can be the difference between a good outcome and a limb- or life-threatening complication. Access to the uDesign plan prior to surgery reduces uncertainty in surgical planning by allowing the population of surgical trays with the appropriate sequence and sizes of instruments, resulting in enhanced work flow during the procedure,” said Casas-Ganem.

Patrick Treacy told OTW, “The MyTray solution is the direct output of really understanding how to translate customer pain points and clinical challenges into a product.”

“Tumor and complex revision cases can be challenging. For that reason, we start every project by looking at the problem through the lens of our customers. This project was rewarding because the solution was created through a very iterative, immersion process with our customers. Based on those sessions, our goal was to identify a way to incorporate personalized surgical planning into a specific workflow that reduces the surgical tray footprint and streamlines the sequencing of instruments and implants based on that surgeons desired plan.”

“A key milestone for our team was interpreting those voices of customer inputs into our design control process to insure the end product met the specific needs of the customer. Like most projects of this nature, our team needed to deliver on very specific verification and validation activities that are required in our product development process. From interactions with our surgeons, we were able to identify several categories of innovation that drive a high level of personalization, reduce complexity and address clinical challenges.”