Can artificial intelligence repair the operating room? This startup thinks so

There’s a lot of hype around AI and robotics in healthcare, but the problem that’s costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of operating room time is lost every day, not to the surgeries themselves, but to everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about room turnover.

Today on TechCrunch justice Podcast, we bring you a conversation by TechCrunch AI editor Russell Brandom with Conor McGinn, co-founder and CEO of Akara, a startup that recently carved out a place in the market The best time inventions of 2025 It is building what is essentially air traffic control for hospitals using thermal sensors and artificial intelligence.

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