Houston Methodist researchers have published what they describe as the first peer-reviewed evidence that ambient AI in the operating room is associated with a measurable increase in surgical case volume: a 7% rise, or roughly 25 additional cases per month, in a high-acuity cardiothoracic suite after the system deployed Apella’s computer-vision platform. The study, published June 27, 2026 in the Journal of Imaging, covers 5,417 surgical cases monitored over 16 months at the system’s flagship…