Surgery Care
About
The app your practice hands to every surgical patient.
Surgery Care is software used by surgical practices. Your patients experience your practice; we carry the line between visits.
Surgery is one of the most stressful things a person goes through, and most of that stress happens outside the operating room. In the weeks before, patients don’t know how to prepare and call the office for reassurance. On the day, families sit in a waiting room with no information. Afterward, recovery is where outcomes are won or lost — and exactly where practices lose contact.
Surgery Care was built inside a working surgical practice to hold that whole line together. We started with a web portal alongside a mobile app, and patients told us the answer plainly: they used the app, and they did not use the portal. So we stopped hedging. The app is the product now, and the portal is being retired.
How we think about it
A bounded course of care, not an inbox
A surgery is a bounded event, so we modelled it as one. A patient's care opens when the office enrols them, runs a cadence of check-ins through the ninety days around the operation, and then closes with a satisfaction survey. Nobody inherits an open-ended message thread that never ends.
The clinician leads, and the software enforces it
Atlas — our AI assistant — drafts. A person on the care team approves. There is no configuration in which an AI-written message reaches a patient without a human releasing it, because that would be a different product than the one we wanted to build.
Context over configuration
The app should know where a patient is without anyone maintaining it. Pre-op prep is available only while the patient is pre-op and closes the moment surgery starts. Post-op instructions appear only once surgery actually happened. A cancelled surgery closes both. Patients never read instructions meant for a different week of their life.
Nothing auto-sends
AI drafts and organises; people decide. Every message a patient receives cleared a member of the care team first.
Isolation first
Your patients are walled off from every other practice’s, underneath the application rather than by a rule the code has to remember. Security is the shape of the system, not a feature bolted on.
Honest signals
A confirmed prep tick is a statement of fact. An unreachable patient is flagged as unreachable. We would rather be uncomfortable than falsely reassuring.
Who built it
Sravisht Iyer, MD
Orthopedic spine surgeon · Research Director, Spine Service, and Co-Director of the Athletes Spine Program at the Hospital for Special Surgery · Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
Dr. Iyer is a spine surgeon specialising in minimally invasive treatment of cervical, thoracic and lumbar conditions. He trained in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, took his MD magna cum laude at Harvard Medical School through the Health Sciences and Technology programme, completed his orthopedic residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery and a spine fellowship at Rush University Medical Center, and is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. His research covers spine biomechanics, spinal fusion, and post-operative pain control.
Surgery Care exists because of what he saw around his own operations rather than inside them. The surgery is a few hours; the care around it is three months. Patients arrive anxious and under-prepared, families sit through the day with no information, and recovery — the part that decides the outcome — is where a practice loses contact. He set the clinical rules this product is built on: that no AI-written message reaches a patient without a clinician releasing it, that a prep tick is a statement of fact, and that a machine never delivers hard news.
Affiliations are listed as professional background. Surgery Care is a platform, operated by Neurantra LLC — an independent company. Neither is affiliated with, endorsed by, or a product of any hospital, health system or university named here.
Where we are
Surgery Care is early and we would rather say so. It was built to hold many practices side by side from the very first day, each sealed off from the others — but it is running in production with one surgical practice today. Bringing on the next one is a setup task, not a rebuild, and we are looking for the practices that want to shape what comes next.
What we don’t claim. We are not certified — there is no such thing as HIPAA certification. We are not integrated with Epic or any other EHR, and we don’t plan to pretend otherwise during a demo. We are not yet used by practices nationwide.
What we are, precisely
Surgery Care is a health-technology company. We build the software, run the infrastructure under signed business-associate agreements, and stand each practice up on it. Your practice provides the care. We are never a party in the room between a surgeon and their patient, and the app never speaks for you without your approval.