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Why time savings for surgeons is important is planning complex patient-specific cases

28 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Surgeons only generate revenue during surgery or patient consultations, not while planning complex cases with engineers. Mayo Clinic and other large health systems are now investing in 3D printers, specialized software, and engineers to speed up this planning work and reduce the financial cost of non-revenue time.

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Remember, a surgeon is only making money where they're cutting or when they're sitting, when they're in consult. A surgeon is not making money when they're sitting with an engineer planning a case. And a health system is not making money when their surgeon is with an engineer planning a case. So we need to be very mindful of that and we need to make it as productive as possible for them. The hospitals— and now every— Mayo started this trend, but now a lot of larger health systems are They're buying 3D printers and they're buying software and they're hiring engineers.