Oath Surgical partners with Nvidia AI to transform outpatient operating rooms with real-time intelligence

This Startup Is Bringing Nvidia's AI Tech Into the Operating Room

"This is an industry-first collaboration that brings AI into outpatient operating rooms to support surgeons in real time and improve efficiencies and outcomes across every step of the patient journey, from referral to recovery," Oath founder and CEO Dr. Oliver Keown wrote in a post on LinkedIn. Oath is a health tech startup that aims to cut down on the cost, inefficiency, and fragmentation of surgical care through its outpatient surgical centers and OathOS platform. It currently owns and operates three surgical centers in Portland, and is affiliated with about 20 other ambulatory surgery centers across the country. As for the OathOS platform, it supports both clinical and administrative tasks. Within the operating room, it collects data and supports intelligent automation with an aim towards freeing up doctors so they can actually focus on care. OathOS also tracks patient outcomes and supports tasks like billing and scheduling. "By capturing and analyzing what we're doing for our patients in real time, Oath creates a complete, longitudinal record of our work and automates the administrative tasks that usually pull us away from hands-on care," Dr. Sean Watters, a robotic general surgeon from The Oregon Clinic, said in a statement.

Oath Surgical Announces AI-Native Surgical Centers Powered by NVIDIA

Oath Surgical announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to support the OathOS platform, a multimodal, ambient clinical intelligence system designed to orchestrate the next generation of value-based surgery. The collaboration brings NVIDIA's advanced spatial AI infrastructure to Oath's AI-native surgical centers, powering OathOS with real-time surgical video and audio analysis and agentic workflows in the operating room, and delivering unique insights and efficiencies for surgeons across the full care journey from referral to recovery. Surgery is one of the highest-signal environments in healthcare, where every procedure has the potential to generate rich and actionable clinical, operational, and spatial insight. Yet much of that important data remains uncollected, underanalyzed, fragmented, or lost across disconnected systems and workflows. Today, even the basics are a challenge - outdated and inefficient technology wastes the equivalent of an entire working month of surgeons' time every year, according to a 2024 study of 1,000 U.S.-based surgeons. While AI haspromised transformation, in traditional hospital and outpatient settings progress has been limited by legacy digital and physical infrastructure, under investment, and the absence of a connected software operating system. Oath solves this problem from first principles. By co-owning and operating its surgical centers, Oath has carefully architected the physical and digital environment within which it deploys OathOS to power AI-driven and agentic workflows across the entire episode of care. Outside of the operating room, OathOS connects referral, scheduling, billing, outcomes measurement, and patient engagement into a unified system. This creates a continuous longitudinal record of surgical performance and enables decisions to be made on clinical, financial, and operational matters quickly and efficiently. Outside of the operating room., OathOS connects referral, scheduling and billing, outcomes measurement, and patients engagement into a unified system. this creates a continuous longitudinal record ofurgical performance and enables decisions to be make on clinical, financial, and operations quickly and efficiently. Outside of The operating room, OathOS connects referrals, scheduling, billing, outcomes measurements, and patient engagement into a Unified system. This creates a continuous prospective record of surgical performance and enables decision to be made on clinical, Financial, and operational matters quickly and efficient. Together, this collaboration creates opportunities for broader ecosystem partnerships with medical device manufacturers, robotic innovators, and third-party technology and value-aligned partners. Oath Surgical is backed by $35 million in total funding from FPV Ventures, McKesson Ventures, and other leading healthcare investors. The company owns and operates three AI-native outpatient surgical centers in Portland, Oregon, with additional Oath surgical centers in development across the United States, and partners with more than 175 surgeons and 20 affiliated ASCs through its nationwide network. This combination of real-world facilities, scale, and aligned incentives uniquely positions Oath to deploy surgical AI in practice where data ownership, workflows, and outcomes are connected by design.