Brought to life by AI.
SAGES PulseAI™ transforms decades of SAGES surgical videos, articles, and educational content into a living, interactive AI knowledge base, expanding member learning further than ever before. With PulseAI™, SAGES members can ask questions directly to the video library and receive answers grounded in SAGES-approved content, giving every surgeon instant access to the collective wisdom of the SAGES community, making membership more valuable than ever.
SAGES PulseAI™ would make this possible in a way no surgical society has yet demonstrated at scale.
It is a purpose-built AI platform that brings every asset in the SAGES library to life as an interactive, conversational knowledge base that members can question and explore in real time. Ask a clinical question, get answers drawn directly from SAGES videos, with precise timestamps and full attribution.
This would position SAGES among the very first surgical societies in the world to offer AI-navigated access to its own educational content, and transform the video library into an active part of how the next generation of surgeons learns and develops... deepening the value of membership in a way that meaningfully improves patient outcomes.
The Opportunity
A surgeon searching for expert guidance on a laparoscopic complication, or a resident trying to understand variation in technique across SAGES experts, must today browse, scroll, and piece together answers from individual videos. The knowledge is there. It is simply not yet accessible in the way modern practitioners expect.
SAGES PulseAI closes that gap entirely. Technique, rationale, and expert variation across decades of SAGES content become instantly explorable, citable, and usable in daily practice, for residents, fellows, and experienced surgeons alike.
How It Works
SAGES PulseAI is built on epiqar's EDD (Epiqar Deep Dive) AI platform. It indexes SAGES's surgical videos, articles, presentations, and educational PDFs using semantic AI. When a SAGES member asks a question, PulseAI returns the most relevant video segments at precise timestamps alongside supporting commentary, articles, and educational context.
Every answer is grounded entirely in SAGES-approved materials. No outside sources, no AI speculation. Every response cites the exact SAGES video, timestamp, article, and author that supports it.
In response: PulseAI surfaces the most relevant SAGES videos at exact timestamps, alongside supporting articles and educational context, allowing surgeons to explore technique, rationale, and variation across the full SAGES community.
Content Scope
SAGES PulseAI is built on SAGES's surgical video library as its foundation and expands to incorporate additional SAGES-approved assets under full editorial oversight:
The core foundation. Procedural videos indexed by technique, anatomy, and decision point, with precise timestamp citations surfacing the exact moment relevant to each query.
Peer-reviewed SAGES-associated content, guidelines, and Surgical Endoscopy publications providing academic depth alongside video evidence.
CME presentations, Annual Meeting content, and postgraduate course materials transformed from passive slides into searchable, citable knowledge.
Curated, SAGES-approved procedural and device documentation providing context on instrumentation alongside expert technique, under full SAGES governance.
Strategic Impact for SAGES
Transforms SAGES.org from a content archive into an active learning tool members return to daily. Video content that once sat passively becomes a resource used in real clinical practice.
PulseAI becomes a tangible, differentiated benefit for residents and fellows who expect AI tools in their workflow. A clear, compelling answer to the question: why join SAGES?
Every video, article, and presentation becomes more discoverable and more valuable over time, without increasing editorial burden on the SAGES team.
SAGES PulseAI directly supports the 2026 meeting theme of "Connect to Purpose" by making the society's collective surgical knowledge more accessible and usable across every career stage.
Potential Institutional Value for SAGES
Continuous access to AI-navigated surgical knowledge gives members a daily-use reason to maintain SAGES membership beyond the annual meeting.
PulseAI is a differentiated benefit that resonates strongly with residents and fellows, a pipeline demographic that responds to AI-native tools.
Making CME content searchable and conversational increases the discoverability of existing modules and supports continued learning year-round.
Years of underutilized Annual Meeting video, posters, and presentations gain new life as indexed, queryable knowledge rather than static archives.
PulseAI opens a new, ACCME-compliant revenue channel for SAGES. Industry sponsors can appear contextually alongside relevant AI query results. For example, a device manufacturer's instrument surfacing when a surgeon queries a procedure it is used in, creating editorially governed visibility that benefits sponsors, informs members, and generates sustainable income for SAGES.
PulseAI could be offered as a member-only feature or tiered premium benefit, creating a new value layer within SAGES membership structures.
Proposed Phased Rollout
Index a curated selection of SAGES surgical video content. Validate the AI retrieval quality, editorial controls, and member experience before broader deployment.
Expand to peer-reviewed articles, Annual Meeting presentations, postgraduate course materials, and educational PDFs, deepening the knowledge base.
Society-wide rollout with member usage analytics, engagement reporting, and iteration based on real query patterns from the SAGES community.
Governance, Trust, and Editorial Control
SAGES PulseAI is designed to extend SAGES's authority.
The society retains complete ownership and control over all content surfaced within the platform.
| Principle | How SAGES PulseAI Upholds the Principle |
|---|---|
| Editorial independence | SAGES controls all content inclusion and curation. No content is surfaced without SAGES approval. |
| Attribution and authorship | Every answer cites its source: specific video, timestamp, article, and author, preserving scholarly integrity throughout. |
| No hallucination | PulseAI answers are grounded entirely in SAGES-approved materials. The AI does not generate outside information or speculation. |
| Data privacy | Single-tenant, private healthcare environment. No cross-organization data sharing. All activity isolated and fully auditable. |
| ACCME compliance | Operates in accordance with ACCME Standards for Integrity, with clear separation of educational content from any commercial context. |
SAGES is the steward of a living body of surgical knowledge that will always be growing in content and in value. Built across decades by the world's finest surgeons, it carries the potential to shape how the next generation learns to operate.
SAGES PulseAI is designed to honor that mission: by making the accumulated wisdom of the SAGES community instantly accessible, explorable, and alive, so that every surgeon it touches, at every stage of their career, can practice at their very best.
About epiqar
epiqar has more than 15 years of experience supporting surgical education through secure, regulatory-compliant media platforms. Working closely with professional education and clinical teams at leading medical device companies, including BD, Ethicon, Hologic, Intuitive, Teleflex, and others, along with renown KOL surgeons across Europe, the US and Central America and Canada, epiqar has developed a deep understanding of how surgeons learn and how complex technical systems can be made intuitive and reliable. That expertise is directly applicable to the SAGES surgical video library. epiqar has delivered surgical video streaming and cloud archiving to surgeons in 10 countries, meeting HIPAA, GDPR, and UK NHS requirements.
For over a decade, epiqar has built and maintained the online surgical video library for the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons (sgs.eng.us), a highly-leveraged online surgical video library curated from leading academic gynecologic surgeons’ videos. That long-standing relationship, built on trust, editorial rigor, and deep familiarity with how a surgical society's content ecosystem works, directly informs everything epiqar brings to SAGES PulseAI.
