Let's fix orthopedics.
Deep down, I'm an optimist, fervently believing that we can elevate orthopedics to new heights. However, our beloved field is at a crossroads. For surgeons, hospitals, patients, and industry workers, the current trajectory isn't promising.
This isn't a moment for despair but for action. As we journey through the late-2020s, the old paradigms are fading, opening doors to innovation, efficiency, and a more impactful future in orthopedic care.
Below as a playbook of what I believe that we can do better together. Starting with what has changed, and then what you should do differently to help.
Here are 13 thoughts for improvement.
1/ The new customer pain point.
The manufacturers MUST realize this. Labor has become the bottleneck for customers. Not technology, not outcomes, not price, and not VACs.
Over the last few years, your hospital customers have been burdened with more steps, more procedures, more quality control, more reporting, more surgical instruments, more inventory, more HIPPA, more patient followup, and just more of everything. This complexity is killing the over-worked healthcare workers and the over-worked surgeons. One of our BoneChat mem...
