Johnson & Johnson report defines the rise of surgical intelligence

Johnson & Johnson has released a report titled ‘Surgery’s Next Inflection Point: The Rise of Surgical Intelligence’ to address the evolving landscape of digital surgery. The report argues that healthcare is entering an era where artificial intelligence, connected data, and intelligent systems will fundamentally reshape surgical procedures.

While modern operating rooms generate vast amounts of multimodal data, much of this information remains fragmented across different devices and institutions. The report introduces a framework to help the healthcare community define and scale ‘surgical intelligence’—the clinical knowledge generated from this data—while emphasizing the need for trusted governance, interoperability, and collaboration across the surgical ecosystem to combat workforce shortages and rising economic pressures.