Case Study: Karolinska University Hospital achieves global, safer robotic surgery education with Microsoft Azure

Making history: Robotic surgery goes live worldwide on Azure

Karolinska University Hospital, a major Stockholm academic medical center affiliated with Karolinska Institutet, needed a safer, more standardized and more accessible way to deliver live robotic-surgery training. Traditional live-surgery events raised concerns about patient safety, unfamiliar teams, travel costs and limited audience access, so Karolinska sought a global solution that let surgeons teach from their own hospitals with their regular teams.

Partnering with LiveArena and using Microsoft Azure Media Services, Karolinska created a virtual Worldwide Robotic Surgery 24‑hour event with live and on‑demand streams, interactive Q&A, polls and social integration. The inaugural event linked 12 centers across five continents, attracted more than 3,200 registrants from 85 countries, delivered nearly 33 hours of live surgery plus 55 presentations, and has led to regular six‑monthly events, weekly training (WRSE9AM) and new international collaborations to improve surgical education and patient safety.

Karolinska University Hospital

Justin Collins

Urologist and Researcher