Patrick Garman

Surgery centers have a role in saving the healthcare system billions of dollars a year.

The efficiency model pretty much was invented by surgery centers.

If hospitals only would take the chance, the opportunity to look at how surgery centers run an efficient method, they would probably reduce their cost as well.

So

All surgery centers are for profit.

Very, very few are not for profit.

The majority of the acute care hospital settings in the United States are not for profit.

So it's a totally different mind frame, a totally different established setup.

I think the technology that I've seen for a long time, it was electronic medical records.

Everyone's up to speed.

It should be up to speed on that artificial intelligence for the surgeon.

It works one of two ways.

It's an attractive marketing tool.

It's if there's some glamor to it, it's terribly expensive.

Um, it is, um,

prohibitive in that it slows the surgeon down.

So if the surgeon values his or her time and they're efficient and they have great outcomes and they move with precision and speed, adding artificial intelligence or AI at that cost is actually going to slow them down.

That's a fact.

Some of the hospital settings or the large surgery centers that include AI, robotics, things like that,

especially robotics and orthopedics.