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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
May. 25, 2006
Sherrod A. Woods, Warsaw, IN (US);
Mark R. Disilvestro, Columbia City, IN (US);
Sherrod A. Woods, Warsaw, IN (US);
Mark R. DiSilvestro, Columbia City, IN (US);
DePuy Synthes Products, LLC, Raynham, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing inventories of orthopaedic implants includes receiving a medical image of a bone of a patient from a healthcare provider, performing a digital templating procedure on the medical image to determine an orthopaedic implant for use with the bone of the patient; transmitting the digital templated medical image to the healthcare provider, and shipping the orthopaedic implant to the healthcare provider in response to an electronic approval of the digital templated medical image received from the healthcare provider. Implant constraint data may also be received from the healthcare provider and used in determining the orthopaedic implant. In addition, a number of orthopaedic implants having a range of different sizes based on the size of the determined orthopaedic implant may be shipped to the healthcare provider. In some embodiments, the healthcare provider may perform the digital templating procedure on the medical image.