Lausanne, Switzerland — Neo Medical SA, a Swiss technology company specializing in spine surgery, announced the U.S. commercial launch of the Neo Instant MIS Access platform for posterior thoracic, lumbar and sacral minimally invasive surgery procedures.
The platform is designed to address operational barriers that have limited wider adoption of minimally invasive spine surgery.
Neo Medical said the launch expands its spine platform and supports its vision of an integrated, sterile-ready procedural ecosystem spanning access, instrumentation, advanced materials, force-control technologies and intraoperative data.
Minimally invasive surgery techniques are associated with reduced tissue disruption, shorter recovery pathways in selected patients and potential operating room efficiencies. However, Neo Medical said operational infrastructure remains a constraint to broader adoption of minimally invasive spine surgery.
Traditional MIS access often depends on capital equipment, reusable instrument inventories, reprocessing cycles, table-mounted systems, vendor logistics and workflow coordination, which can limit scalability across hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
Neo said Instant MIS Access was designed to remove those barriers.
“The future of minimally invasive spine surgery is no longer defined by surgical technique alone,” said Vincent Lefauconnier, Co-Founder and CEO of Neo Medical. “It is defined by how efficiently healthcare systems can deliver those procedures at scale. We believe the next frontier in MIS adoption is operational simplicity, and Instant MIS Access was designed specifically to address that challenge.”
Neo Medical said internal value models indicate that the Instant MIS Access platform requires no capital investment, can be prepared in less than two minutes and may reduce per-case operational burden by up to $2,500 compared with conventional MIS access infrastructure. The company said the system may also support increased operating room throughput and procedural capacity in turnover-constrained facilities.
“The Neo system integrates seamlessly into our workflow for both the surgical team and me,” said Dr. Robert Eastlack, Head of the Division of Spine Surgery at Scripps Clinic. “It provides stable access and clear visualization through a small incision without adding complexity in the operating room or during turnover. The setup is straightforward, the workflow is intuitive, and it addresses many of the practical barriers that have traditionally limited broader adoption of MIS.”
The launch extends Neo Medical’s strategy of reducing procedural complexity in spine surgery through sterile-ready technologies, modular instrumentation, advanced materials, proprietary Force Control Technology and intraoperative augmented reality capabilities.
“We are grateful to the surgeon partners who helped bring this system to market, including Dr. Juan Valdivia-Valdivia, Dr. Ali Mesiwala, Dr. Robert Eastlack, and Dr. Tyler Carson,” Lefauconnier said. “Their clinical insight and collaboration were essential to developing a system designed around the realities of spine care, not only what happens in surgery, but what it takes for teams and institutions to deliver MIS efficiently, consistently, and at scale.”
The system is commercially available in the United States. Launches in Europe and other international markets are expected to follow, subject to applicable regulatory processes.
