Apella OR Intelligence Platform

Apella is a health technology company offering an operating room optimization platform that uses ambient AI, computer vision and EHR data. Headquarters and founding year are not stated on the pages reviewed.

Ceiling-mounted sensors detect up to 14 surgical case events automatically and write them back to the EHR. The platform provides live room boards, text alerts, predictive case durations and retrospective analytics, and its Horizon add-on predicts durations and utilization before the day starts. Houston Methodist deployed it in more than 200 operating rooms.

• Ambient event detection: identifies up to 14 case events from computer vision.
• Live OR board: shows room status in real time.
• Text alerts: notify surgeons, anesthesiologists and periop staff.
• Predictive durations: Horizon forecasts case length and utilization.
• EHR write-back: records events in the EHR automatically.
• Analytics: tracks turnover, performance and capacity.

A hospital with many operating rooms could track turnovers to cut idle time. A surgical center could use predicted case durations to schedule more cases per day. A hospital quality team could review delay causes.

Gives real-time visibility into every operating room without manual data entry. Predicts case durations to improve scheduling. Reports about a 5% average increase in surgical volume at hospitals using it. Helps prevent delays and improve turnovers between cases.

Hospitals use ambient AI and computer vision to digitize operating rooms and raise surgical throughput. Vietnamese private hospitals investing in surgical centers can apply the same approach to improve room utilization.

Series B of USD 80M (equity and venture debt) announced 2026-01 led by HighlandX; earlier Series A of USD 21M. 500,000 surgical cases supported to date per company.