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Comparative outcomes can be measured using smart implants to compare surgeons and hospitals.

25 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief dialogue, the speakers explore the concept of leveraging data from smart orthopedic implants as a straightforward, flat-out quality metric. They discuss how insurers, ambulatory surgery centers, and orthopedic groups could use such objective measurements to demonstrate superior performance and justify higher standards of care.

Is anybody talking to you about using this as a flat-out quality measure?
Yeah, for sure.
Like, just, I mean, like, for insurance or an ambulatory surgery center that, or, I mean, or the orthopedic groups to say, we do it better. And saying, this is a way we can prove it.
Well, without question. There's two things I can tell you for sure. One is that different docs have different recovery curves, but we're starting to compare those because it's like, hey, your patients do well re— at the beginning, really, really well. So what are you doing that I'm not doing? And by the way, your patients seem to do really well on week 3 to week 8. What I can tell you is that a lot of TKA happens between week 3 and week 9.