Josse: We are looking at smart implants. We have today’s TRUMATCH, which allows for patient-specific instrumentation. We’re looking at technologies across all of the spaces in orthopedics where we’re focused including joint reconstruction, trauma and spine. Earlier this year, we launched VELYS Insights [which helps the health care team connect with patients before and after total knee or hip replacement].

It also allows for collecting data on patient expectations, on where they are in their current status of their pathology and their condition. And we help the health care team efficiently manage the care of their patients by supporting them with different resources on various points of their journey pre-operatively, but also post-operatively so they can see where they have improved.

We are linking that data [derived from VELYS Insights] to pre-operative planning, which is a critical piece surgeons can use to plan the case and really take into account the bony structures, the soft tissue, the alignment they need to make, the cuts they will need to do and plan ahead. It also helps them with what size implants need to be used so when they [surgeons] start the case, they have a clear idea of what to do. Now you can use robotics or even navigation to ensure that you can drive the execution through these technologies.

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