Csats: This University of Washington spin-out just raised $2.5M to evaluate surgeons' skills

Performance reviews are commonplace in most industries as a way for employers to ensure that their employees are putting out high quality work. But in the medical world, and specifically for surgeons, this process rarely happens - and it's a problem that a new startup spun out of the University of Washington wants to tackle. Seattle-based C-SATS just raised $2.5 million to build out its cloud-based performance management system that evaluates surgeons, improves their skills, and ultimately helps hospitals save money. C-SATS - or Crowd-Sourced Assessment of Technical Skills - does this by paying experts to analyze video of surgeries and assess overall performance, like how... Read More