The surgical experience of tomorrow, designed today with humans as the compass
At Mensana, innovation is never an end in itself. It exists for one reason: to give care teams tools that make them more precise, more attentive, more responsive and to give patients the serenity of a surgery prepared with the rigor of our time.
Artificial intelligence, pharmacogenomics, advanced anesthesia approaches: each of our advances is measured against one question, does this make the experience more humane?
Technology fades into the background. The human never does.Technology fades into the background. The human never does.
Medical innovation can take two directions: the kind that demands the clinician's attention for itself, and the kind that fades away so the caregiver can stay more present to the patient. Mensana has made a clear choice. Our tools are designed to work in the background, turning complex signals into clear guidance, and giving care teams back time with their patients. Good innovation is the kind you don't notice but whose effect you feel.
Artificial intelligence (AI) as an accelerator of innovation
For Mensana, artificial intelligence is not a gadget. It is a clinical decision support tool: continuously analyzing a patient's physiological data, detecting trends a human eye would miss, refining pre-procedure risk quantification, predicting reactions to different anesthesia approaches. AI is the extra set of eyes we bring to your teams always attentive, never tired, always in service of human decision-making.
For you, the patient: you don't see these algorithms at work, but they continuously watch over what concerns you, your parameters, your recovery trajectory. They allow your medical team to act early, sometimes before a problem even shows, always transparently and always under the caregiver's control.
For your clinic: validated, traceable decision support that integrates into your clinical teams' existing flows, without replacing them. Relevant alerts rather than abundant ones, objectified risk scores, a consolidated reading of pathway-level trends. AI gives you time; it doesn't take it away.
Constant monitoring
Constant vigilance, even into your recovery
High-quality clinical sensors combined with Mensana's artificial intelligence models: continuous vital sign monitoring during the procedure, and remote follow-up in the days that follow. Attentive vigilance that fades into the background when all is well and alerts at the earliest moment when a signal deserves attention.
For you, the patient: even when you're at home, your team keeps a caring eye on your recovery. Weak signals are detected before they become problems. You're home but never alone.
For your clinic: continuous monitoring that extends the clinical eye beyond the OR walls. Real-time alerts, dynamic risk scores, earlier intervention. Fewer readmissions, fewer avoidable ER visits and quality of care that documents itself, day after day.
Advanced Anesthesia
Medical hypnosis, opioid-free anesthesia, personalized sedation
General anesthesia has long been experienced as an obligatory passage with its side effects, its nausea, its difficult next days. Mensana dares another path, whenever the surgical gesture allows: ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia, opioid-free anesthesia (OFA), calibrated conscious sedation, and when indicated, medical hypnosis. Approaches that reduce side effects, limit opioid dependence, and allow gentler, faster recoveries.
For you, the patient: fewer side effects, less nausea, fewer opioids, more control over your experience. For procedures suited to it, you can stay lucid, breathe, stay present thanks to approaches that preserve your autonomy and let you live your surgery differently.
For your clinic: better-tolerated protocols that reduce post-op nausea, respiratory complications, and PACU length-of-stay. Less opioid consumption a growing regulatory and reputational concern. An OR that keeps moving, patients leaving serene, teams working in a calmer environment.
A pioneer in the use of pharmacogenomics in anesthesia
We don't all have the same metabolism: some people quickly transform medications, others accumulate them; some tolerate them well, others feel the side effects more strongly. Pharmacogenomics studies how your genes influence your response to medications. At Mensana, it allows us to analyze your genetic profile upstream and choose, with your anesthesiologist, the molecules most suited to you before you even receive them.
For you, the patient: fewer unexpected side effects, fewer anesthesia surprises, medications chosen with precise knowledge of your biology. It's medicine that adapts to you, not the other way around.
For your clinic: even more precise anesthesia protocols, a reduction in adverse reactions, genetic documentation that adds to the patient file and strengthens your clinical traceability. A cutting-edge position in a field still rarely used in Canadian perioperative practice.
What we do with your data in full transparency
We want to be honest with you about how your data feeds our ecosystem because medical innovation is only as strong as the trust it is built on.
Your identifiable data, the kind that can be traced back to you personally, remains yours and your care team's. It is never shared with a commercial third party in a form that would allow you to be identified.
To advance our clinical decision-support models, your data may be used in aggregated and anonymized form. This is the standard in healthcare data science and it is precisely what allows medicine to learn, improve, and better serve tomorrow's patients.
Our algorithms are auditable. Our practices align with applicable healthcare standards, including Quebec's Law 25. And you retain, at all times, the right to consult, correct, or withdraw your data.
Your questions about our technologies
What is artificial intelligence in healthcare?
AI is a set of techniques that make it possible to continuously analyze very large amounts of data, detecting trends or making predictions that help human clinicians decide. In healthcare, it can help more precisely quantify the risks of a procedure, predict how a body will react to different anesthesia techniques, or spot a weak signal in post-op monitoring. It never replaces a doctor, it supports them.
How is the data used by AI collected?
The data used is primarily what you voluntarily share as part of your Mensana journey: questionnaires, clinical assessments, biometric measurements recorded during your preparation or at the hospital. In some cases, connected devices may be used (for example a watch to record your heart rate or analyze your sleep), always with your explicit consent and with the possibility of withdrawal at any time.
Is my data shared or sold?
Your identifiable data is never sold, nor shared with a commercial third party in a form that would allow you to be identified. However, in aggregated and anonymized form, it may feed the improvement of our clinical decision-support models, this is the standard in healthcare data science, and it is what allows medicine to progress for tomorrow's patients. You retain, at all times, the right to consult, correct, or withdraw your data, within the limits provided by law (including Quebec's Law 25).
What is pharmacogenomics?
Pharmacogenomics studies how a person's genes influence their response to medications. Some people metabolize drugs quickly, others slowly. Some feel side effects strongly, others barely. With Mensana, a simple genetic test may be offered before your surgery to better choose, with your anesthesiologist, the molecules best suited to your biology.
How do partner clinics integrate these technologies?
Our innovations do not require a revolution in your clinical flows. AI and monitoring integrate with your EHR via interoperability standards (HL7/FHIR). Pharmacogenomics is offered upstream, without interfering with the day of surgery. Advanced anesthesia approaches are co-built with your surgeon. The whole stack enters your practices without disrupting them but elevating them.
Our areas of expertise
Orthopedics, esthetic surgery: two different worlds, one shared conviction. Every act of upstream preparation opens the way to a more human, more comfortable and more predictable experience.
