The Future of Sports Medicine and Orthopedics With Dr. Frank A. Cordasco
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This is Carly Beam with the Becker Spine and Orthopedics Podcast. And I'm thrilled to be joined today by Dr. Frank Cordasco with Hospital for Special Surgery out in New York. Dr. Cordasco, thank you so much for being here today.
It's my pleasure, Carly. I'll give you a little brief background on my history. So again, Frank Cordasco, I received my orthopedic surgery residency training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York Orthopedic Hospital. and my shoulder and elbow surgery fellowship training thereafter with Dr. Charles Neer, also at Columbia and NYOH. I've spent the majority of my career in New York City, initially as a faculty member at Columbia, and then I was recruited to the Hospital for Special Surgery by Dr. Russell Warren, where I've been for nearly three decades now. I'm an attending orthopedic surgeon at the Sports Medicine Institute at HSS, as well as a senior research scientist at HSS. and a professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine, which is part of Cornell University.
And I've served as the 35th president of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons from 2018 to 2019. And I'm currently an ex officio member of the ASCS executive committee, as well as the ninth chair of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery family of journals.
Thank you. And Dr. Cordesco, I want to start with you. What are the top three trends that you're following in healthcare today, whether it's specific to orthopedics or just kind of looking overall at the healthcare system as a whole?
Yeah, I think that's an important question, Carly, and I think it's pretty clear to anybody who follows healthcare and innovation. It's really threefold, and I'll start by just being specific to healthcare overall, and then perhaps we could delve into sports medicine and orthopedics. But first off, AI and automation in care, I think, has had a huge impact already on a number of facets of human endeavor, specifically medicine. And so AI and automation and care is rapidly moving into diagnostics, risk prediction, clinical documentation, and administrative workflow automation. A lot of this has been present now for a few years. It's certainly an evolution and we would expect fairly rapid change soon, meaning in the next one, two to five years.
It's being used to read images, flag high-risk patients, support triage, and reduce paperwork so clinicians can spend more time with patients. On the virtual care and remote monitoring and wearables, this is again amazing technology. Obviously, telemedicine is now a mainstream access point since the pandemic. It's especially useful for primary care and behavioral health, and it reduces the need for many in-person visits for these individuals. Remote patient monitoring, consumer wearables can feed continuous data to clinicians, and it enables early detection of deterioration or more proactive chronic disease management at home. On the healthcare delivery system, it's really personalized and value-based care is becoming a transition.
I think many health systems around the country Perhaps New York is an outlier or shifting from fee-for-service toward value-based models that reward outcomes with coordinated whole-person care. So I think that's specific to healthcare overall, using genomics, biomarkers, and individual care plans is becoming more and more common, particularly in areas like oncology and condition-specific care. pathologies and programs. As it relates to what I do, my wheelhouse is I practice as an orthopedic and sports medicine surgeon. The three big trends that I just mentioned translate into very practical shifts in how I diagnose, operate upon, and follow athletes back to return to sport at their prior level of performance.
It's an exciting time. Again, a lot of this is not new. We tend to focus on what we've been hearing from the media and from our financial colleagues you know over the last year to two but ai and imaging pathology and even instrumentation in the oar has been present already in orthopedics for the last several years even predating covid i'll start with the imaging side you know ai and imaging planning and outcomes as it relates to imaging
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–11:22
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What are the top three trends in healthcare impacting orthopedics?
11:22–14:15
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How is AI transforming diagnostics and patient care in orthopedics?
14:15–19:39
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What role do virtual care and remote monitoring play in sports medicine?
19:39–19:44
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