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Apella is a private healthcare technology company developing an ambient AI and computer-vision platform for operating-room intelligence and optimization. Its ceiling-mounted cameras and software passively detect and timestamp perioperative events—such as patient entry, anesthesia induction, procedure start and end, room setup, cleaning, and turnover—then combine those signals with EHR data to provide real-time operational visibility, improve scheduling and coordination, forecast delays and case durations, reduce downtime, and potentially write structured events back to systems including Epic. Publicly identified health-system customers or partners include Houston Methodist, Tampa General Hospital, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Hackensack Meridian Health, and NorthBay Health. The company’s market position is that of a private, venture-backed specialist in ambient AI for hospital operating-room and procedural-area optimization; its reported deployment across more than 200 Houston Methodist operating rooms and reported association with increased surgical capacity indicate enterprise traction, although independent market-share data and valuation information were not identified.