3D Systems is teaming up with Enhatch Inc. to improve accessibility of personalized orthopedic devices.

The partnership aims to streamline and scale patient-specific medical device design and delivery by automating the process. Incorporating these capabilities into 3D Systems’ workflow for patient-specific solutions—which includes advanced software, expert treatment planning services, custom implants and instrumentation design, and production processes—will help more efficiently meet the growing demand for personalized medical devices.

“Our partnership with Enhatch will enable us to deliver the healthcare industry’s most comprehensive approach to additive manufacturing,” said Menno Ellis, executive vice president, healthcare solutions, 3D Systems. “Integrating these technologies and capabilities into 3D Systems’ surgical planning solutions will make processes more efficient, trackable, and cost-effective. This is another step in our ongoing commitment to innovation that helps our customers remain at the forefront of medical device development and healthcare delivery.”
 
3D Systems partners with medical device manufacturers to offer its VSP surgical planning solutions to support craniomaxillofacial and orthopedic medical specialties to help reduce procedure time and improve surgical outcomes. Likewise, Enhatch develops software applications powered by artificial intelligence to streamline every element of the patient-specific digital workflow. Enhatch is the first company to market an ecosystem of surgical technologies driven by artificial intelligence, which helps evaluate and mitigate potential risks in the surgical planning process. Combining the application and technology expertise of both companies creates an optimized, automated, and scalable medical device workflow.
  
“Enhatch is proud to welcome 3D Systems to the Intelligent Surgery Ecosystem,” said Peter Verrillo, co-founder and CEO of Enhatch. “Healthcare ecosystems have tremendous potential to disrupt and reshape the entire industry, leading to improved patient outcomes, faster, more accurate, and safer procedures. Enhatch and 3D Systems have a shared goal of bringing surgeons and industry together with the best leading-edge technologies available.”
 
As a pioneer in personalized healthcare solutions, 3D Systems has worked with surgeons over the last decade to plan more than 140,000 patient-specific cases, and manufacture more than 2 million implants and instruments for more than 100 CE-marked and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared devices from its FDA registered, ISO 13485-certified facilities in Littleton, Colo., and Leuven, Belgium. 
  
More than 30 years ago, 3D Systems brought the innovation of 3D printing to the manufacturing industry. The company’s solutions address a variety of advanced applications in healthcare and industrial markets such as medical and dental, aerospace and defense, automotive, and durable goods. 

Enhatch is a medical technology company that created the industry’s first Intelligent Surgery Ecosystem, connecting companies, technologies, and surgeons to provide insights from every surgery, patient, and device to elevate patient care. The Intelligent Surgery Ecosystem harnesses the power of AI to streamline each phase of orthopedic surgery, achieving better patient outcomes, unprecedented efficiency and accuracy in patient-specific procedures, and a new level of precision to surgical devices and techniques.