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The Evolution of Intelligent Surgery™ (enhatch website)
The introduction of artificial intelligence is effecting a change in musculoskeletal medicine – an evolution from traditional orthopedic surgery into Intelligent Surgery™.
Intelligent Surgery™ is the use of artificial intelligence to enhance implant design, expedite surgical technique, optimize inventory logistics, and simplify clinical workflows, by connecting and learning from patient data during each step of the surgical care continuum.
Intelligent Surgery™ is a vision evolved out of a system struggling to meet the demand for orthopedic care. The projected demands for joint reconstruction continue to increase with the aging population. Increased life expectancy also creates a bubble of older people who are trying to remain just as active longer, specifically weighing on the orthopedics sector of healthcare for long-lasting joint reconstruction. With the Baby Boomers funneling into retirement, patients are already seeing a bottleneck effect in access to treatment, with waitlists for surgery spanning six months to a year.
The generation bubble is encapsulating and suffocating the workforce of orthopedi...
