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Inside the OEM
some inefficiencies within labor and
overheads. "
Boehnlein pointed out that Stryker
has learned a lot over the last few years
about how to be prudent in its operating
expenses, noting that a big portion of
those expenses are tied to how the company
controls head count. " We are being
appropriately how we expand our headcount,
and we're doing a lot more virtual
meetings than we used to. "
" One of the things that gives us confidence
is that we are seeing sequential
improvement in procedural volumes
across our orthopedic businesses. The
other piece of that is having visibility to
supply and critical supply for chips and
components that allow us to feel comfortable
about what kind of volumes we
were forecasting from med-surg in the
past half of the year. "
Innovation in Robotics and 3D
Printing
" A huge part of the future in medtech
is bound to be robotics - and the company
is a robotics leader, with its Mako
platform driving growth in implants
and expansion both in U.S. and in
non-U.S. geographies, " notes Seeking
Alpha.1 Stryker's Mako SmartRobotics
program includes a Hospital/ASC Reported
Outcomes (HRO) dashboard
and RecoveryCOACH, which is a patient
engagement and patient reported
outcomes collection portal and app. Insights
from the platforms are designed
to enhance patient engagement to help
System 9 introduces
a European-centric
designed aseptic system
for addressing a variety of
orthopedic procedures.
(Credit: Stryker)
improve satisfaction scores, benchmark
data to compare outcomes to look for
areas of opportunity for improvement
and provide a comprehensive view of
key performance indicators of the orthopedics.
" On
the Mako front, the key thing
for us is installation, and we continue
to command price for Mako purchases, "
said Boehnlein. " Customers are
considering a variety of financing alternatives.
Those include rentals, but they
also include leases or leases tied to joint
purchases. For certain customers - especially
customers that are buying their
second, third, or fourth Mako - we're
starting to see more outright cash purchases,
which we definitely like. We've
seen the utilization of Mako for hips
growing. It's certainly not where knees
are, but it's growing in a pretty significant
way, " he said.
In October, Stryker also launched
the Monterey AL Interbody System, a
stand-alone interbody fusion device
designed for anterior lumbar interbody
fusion (ALIF). Monterey AL is
made up of both solid and porous
structures within a single implant,
leveraging Stryker's proprietary Tritanium
In-Growth Technology, a material
designed to mimic cancellous
bone and provide an environment
favorable to bone regeneration and
fusion. New data demonstrates that
undifferentiated stem cells grown on
Tritanium exhibited osteogenic alkaline
phosphatase without requiring
growth factor supplements. Tritanium
is a 3D printed, novel, highly porous
titanium material designed for bone
in-growth and biological fixation,
built using AMagine, Stryker's proprietary
approach to implant creation using
additive manufacturing.
" No one understands 3D printing like
Stryker. The fact that they've been able
to dial in the right mix of small, medium,
and large pores in a reproducibly
randomized matrix is incredible. Their
growing body of preclinical data, specifically
the cellular findings published
most recently, makes my decision to go
with these products very
straightforThe
Monterey AL Interbody System, a stand-alone interbody fusion device designed for anterior lumbar
interbody fusion (ALIF). (Credit: Stryker)
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ward. Our goal with any implant is spinal
fusion, and Stryker has taken a very
intentional approach to designing the
Tritanium cages with this goal in mind, "
said Bala Giri, MD, president and
founder, Texas Neuro Spine Institute.
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