James Mooney

I don't have the specific solution, but I think it's going to take a lot of, you know, lobbying from our organizations and participation from spine surgeons that are at the front line to really make this a reality.

You know, people talk about it a lot, but, you know, putting that into action is a lot more difficult and hopefully, you know, I can help be a part of that moving forward as well.

Yeah, you know, I think...

All aspects of care can be utilized.

Again, I think safety is key, particularly for evaluating and working up a patient for documentation.

You know, Epic has specific A.I.,

workflows that can be used to generate clinic notes, and that's been incredibly helpful with streamlining clinic appointments.

And then moving into the OR, we've just incorporated patient-specific rods and software into our surgical planning, and that software actually will take a patient's preoperative scan, plan your surgery out in conjunction with engineers, and allow you to generate a rod that

at least radiographically, would generate a good outcome for the patient.

The software, it also will track patient outcomes over time as well as did your actual surgical outcome radiographically match what was planned preoperatively.

And there's a massive amount of data that can be acquired over time using those paradigms.

So for intraoperative planning or preoperative planning, it's been very helpful.

I think the next forefront is really incorporating it into

The intraoperative, you know, are we achieving the correction that we planned preoperatively, as well as helping us to standardize decision making.

And again, those things are a little further off, but, you know, not too far off.

Yeah, that's a terrific question.

And so I think one of the reasons I did the fellowship was to really understand which patients to operate on in terms of who's right for a particular procedure.

And in my mind, starting out as a surgeon, my goal is to offer the patient the least invasive surgery that we can offer to achieve the goals of surgery.

And so a lot of times in these cases,

I'm being sent patients that have big scoliotic deformities or issues that radiographically you would want to, if you didn't hear about the patient's symptoms, you could offer a large surgery.