Fixing the little things Healthcare World’s Sarah Cartledge speaks to Moises Barbera Ramos, CEO and Co-Founder of DrillSurgeries, about his revolutionary solution enabling better patient care in orthopaedics
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ometimes you don’t need to set out trying to fix all the wrongs in the world. An unachievable vision is all too often a pitfall for startups and big businesses alike. Occasionally it is the simplest of problems that requires a solution and achieving it can be tremendously beneficial not only for the company but also for the customers (in this case, patients). Moises Barbera Ramos, a 23-year-old scientist and entrepreneur from Spain, identified an orthopaedic surgery solution that nobody else had recognised. Although he wasn’t the first to recognise the problem, he was the first to see how it could be solved by AI. His company Drill Surgeries
is a young and vibrant startup in the medical device sector, driven to improve how Intramedullary Nailing surgeries are performed worldwide. His innovative tool facilitates how surgeons achieve distal enclosure/locking during the surgery, reducing time and X-ray impact on patients and medical staff. His success is no doubt due to his incredibly impressive portfolio at such a young age – an MSc in Physics at the University of Liverpool was followed by an internship CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, developing algorithms for big data analysis. Then came JP Morgan Chase where he worked on programs to
enable quicker execution of trades, and XJTLU in China, working on hand-tracking mechanisms for driverless cars. Identifying the problem However, Moises is no stranger to healthcare. His father was a salesman for medical devices, and he fondly recalls joining his Dad at work, venturing from hospital to hospital back home in Valencia, unconsciously absorbing the issues and challenges within the sector. So healthcare is in his blood. Within orthopaedics, a process called ‘intramedullary nailing’ has been used for a very long time. Invented by Gerhard Küntscher during World War II for treating femur fractures, this procedure enabled patients to resume their activities quickly, sometimes in only a few weeks, as opposed to the months of inactivity that a plaster cast would necessitate.
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