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Surgical AI
Osso VR
by Osso VR
VR procedural-skills training for healthcare, including nurse and surgical training.
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35/100Competitive
- Regulatory & Compliance0/28
No FDA clearance listed
- Clinical Integration0/26
No EHR integrations listed
- Evidence Strength28.8/28.8
6 peer-reviewed papers
- Vendor & Market8.4/18
Mid-tier funding and adoption
- Sentiment & Transparency2.5/14
Pricing on request, no public amounts
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- FDA clearance0/18
No FDA clearance listed
- HIPAA / SOC2 / BAA0/10
No public HIPAA/SOC2/BAA attestation
- EHR integrations (count)0/14
No EHR integrations listed
- Top-3 EHR coverage (Epic / Oracle / Athena)0/8
None of the top-3 EHRs covered
- Bidirectional write-back0/4
No bidirectional write-back documented
- Peer-reviewed papers21/21
6 peer-reviewed papers
- RCT / meta-analysis / systematic review8/8
6 RCT/Meta-Analysis/Systematic Review
- Funding & adoption signal8/12
Mid-tier funding and adoption
- Years in market0/6
Founded year not recorded
- Clinician sentiment (Reddit)0/9
No clinician sentiment data available
- Pricing transparency3/5
Pricing on request, no public amounts
VR surgical training with AI performance scoring (230% accuracy claim).
Enterprise institutional license. Strongest VR surgical training brand.
Bottom line
Osso VR is a virtual-reality platform for training procedural skills. It began in orthopedic surgery and now leads with nurse training for health systems. Its research page lists six papers, three of them randomized trials, and four of the six involve Osso's own platform. Every outcome is measured on a simulated task. The official pages describe no AI scoring. It suits a surgical residency program or a health-system education team with a budget for headsets and a contract. A clinician hoping to practice alone, or any buyer who wants a public price, will not find one here.
What is Osso VR and who sells it?
Osso calls itself "the leading immersive procedural-skills training platform in healthcare," used by hospitals and "more than 100,000 healthcare professionals" (Osso VR About page, October 2026). Those are vendor claims.
The company was founded in 2016. Justin Barad, MD, is a co-founder, and Heather Gervais has been CEO since August 2024. The About page does not state a headquarters. Funding listed there is a $14M Series A in 2020 with Kaiser Permanente Ventures, a $27M Series B in 2021 with GSR Ventures and a $66M Series C in 2022 with Oak HC/FT. Partners named include the Johnson & Johnson Institute (2019), the American College of Cardiology (2022), America's Essential Hospitals (2025) and EBSCO Dynamic Health (2025).
The current home page leads with Osso Nurse Training, launched in 2025 for health systems, alongside Osso Enterprise and Osso Academy. The surgical origin is now the secondary line.
What does Osso VR do?
The Osso VR Nursing Series offers what the vendor calls "clinically accurate" VR procedural scenarios in individual and collaborative modes, with immediate performance feedback. Osso Loop is a web platform with prebriefs, debriefs and dashboards. Osso Health, launched in 2024, is a mixed-reality surgical app for Apple Vision Pro. The platform runs on off-the-shelf headsets (Osso VR website).
The vendor reports 92% procedural step accuracy, 67% fewer errors and 25% faster completion, linked to a 2022 trial by McKinney. The page does not tie each number to a study, so treat them as marketing claims.
What does the evidence say?
The vendor's research page lists six papers.
- McKinney B et al., Journal of Surgical Education 2022, a randomized trial in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (PMID 35863958).
- Orland MD et al., Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 2020, a randomized trial of intramedullary tibial nailing (PMID 32769533).
- Blumstein G et al., Journal of Surgical Education 2020, a randomized trial of tibial shaft nailing (PMID 32035854).
- Cevallos N et al., Journal of Surgical Education 2022, on the utility of VR in orthopedic training (PMID 35821110).
- Berthold DP et al., Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation 2022, a systematic review of head-mounted VR in orthopedic training (PMID 36312724). It covers the field and is not specific to Osso.
- Margalit A et al., JAAOS Global Research and Reviews 2022, on slipped capital femoral epiphysis simulation (PMID 35467580).
The first four involve Osso's own platform. Three are randomized trials, and one trial, at UCLA, was financed by Osso according to TechCrunch (August 2019). Every outcome is a skill checklist on a simulated or sawbones task, and none is a patient outcome. The UCLA trial reported 20 participants, and sample sizes for the others are not stated on the vendor page.
The 230% figure comes from that blinded UCLA trial on tibial nailing. Human graders scored performance on a 5-point global rating scale, and the VR group scored 230% higher than controls. The vendor page now phrases it as "performance scores 230 to 300% of those of standard guide cohort", which is a different quantity from 230% higher. Either way it is a ratio of human ratings in a small trial.
Where does Osso VR fall short?
The trials measure simulation endpoints only, funding is documented for one of them, and a sample size is stated for one. Osso also publishes no price.
HIPAA, SOC 2 and FDA status are not stated on Osso's pages. Training software like this is not generally a cleared device. EHR integration does not apply.
How much does Osso VR cost?
Osso publishes no price. "Request pricing" routes to a contact form, headsets are an extra cost, and the hospital pricing model is not public (October 2026).
How does it compare?
The sources list PrecisionOS, Level Ex, VirtaMed, Touch Surgery and Proximie as competitors. Osso's home page now leads with nurse training.
Who is Osso VR for?
A nurse educator at a health system that wants standardized procedural practice with debrief dashboards is the intended buyer for the nursing series. An orthopedic residency director who wants repeatable practice on a procedure before the first OR case can use the surgical modules. A medical student or resident buying for themselves cannot get a price without a sales contact.
The verdict
Osso VR is a fair purchase for a nursing education department or an orthopedic program that has decided on headset-based practice and has the budget. Skip it if you need evidence of patient-level benefit, because the trials end at simulated skill. Treat the 230% figure as a ratio of human ratings from one 20-person trial.
Editorial review last generated October 15, 2026. Synthesized from clinician sentiment, peer-reviewed coverage, and our editorial silo picks. Refined by hand where vendor facts change.
What it costs
All tiers are custom-quoted. The vendor does not publish per-provider list pricing.
| Tier | Monthly | Annual | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | — | — | No public price, pricing is requested through the website. Headsets cost extra. |
Source: vendor pricing page. Last checked October 15, 2026.
What the literature says
5 peer-reviewed studies indexed on PubMed evaluate Osso VR in clinical contexts. The most relevant are shown below, ranked by editorial relevance score combining title match, study design, recency, and journal tier.
- The Utility of Virtual Reality in Orthopedic Surgical Training.
- Cevallos N, Zukotynski B, Greig D, et al.· J Surg Educ· 2022
- To examine the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) to prepare surgical trainees for a pediatric orthopedic surgery procedure: pinning of a slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE). Participants were randomly assigned to a standard, study guide (SG) group or to a VR training group. All participants were provided a technique video and SG; the VR group additionally trained via an Osso VR surgical trainer (ossovr.com) with real-time feedback and coaching from an attending pediatric orthopedic surgeon. Following training, participants performed a SCFE guidewire placement on a SawBones model embedded…
- Randomized Trial of a Virtual Reality Tool to Teach Surgical Technique for Tibial Shaft Fracture Intramedullary Nailing.
- Blumstein G, Zukotynski B, Cevallos N, et al.· J Surg Educ· 2020
- Active learning methods have accumulated popularity due to improved results in knowledge acquisition as opposed to passive learning methods. For surgical resident physicians with limited training opportunities outside of the operating room due to time constraints, virtual reality (VR) is a relatively inexpensive and time-efficient active training method for procurement of surgical skills. We conducted a simulated intramedullary nailing (IMN) of a tibia to demonstrate VR training programs as a more effective modality of learning orthopedic surgical techniques compared to passive learning tools…
- Does Virtual Reality Improve Procedural Completion and Accuracy in an Intramedullary Tibial Nail Procedure? A Randomized Control Trial.
- Orland MD, Patetta MJ, Wieser M, et al.· Clin Orthop Relat Res· 2020
- Artificial reality technologies are currently being explored as potential options to improve surgical education. Previous studies have primarily examined the efficacy of artificial reality in laparoscopic procedures, but to our knowledge, none have been performed in orthopaedically relevant procedures such as intramedullary tibial nailing, which calls for more versatile large-scale movements. Does a virtual reality simulator with or without a standard technique guide result in (1) a higher proportion of participants who completed the insertion of an intramedullary tibial nail in a synthetic b…
- Virtual Reality Training in Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized, Blinded Trial.
- McKinney B, Dbeis A, Lamb A, et al.· J Surg Educ· 2022
- The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of immersive virtual reality training in orthopedic surgery education in comparison to the standard technique guide for fixed-bearing medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty DESIGN: Participants included 22 orthopedic surgery residents who were randomized to undergo fixed-bearing medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) surgical training with either an immersive virtual reality technology or by studying the traditional technique guide. Participants were randomized within their training year via block randomization. Partici…
- Evaluation of a Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation for the Orthopaedic Trainee.
- Margalit A, Suresh KV, Marrache M, et al.· J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev· 2022
- The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes between orthopaedic trainees using various preoperative training platforms (physical simulation [PS], virtual reality [VR], and reading/videos) in a slipped capital femoral epiphysis model. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three groups: (1) reading/video control group (n = 7), (2) VR group (n = 7), or (3) PS group (n = 7). Participants in the VR group completed a VR slipped capital femoral epiphysis module while participants in the PS group practiced the placement of a screw in the physical module before evaluation of percutan…
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