Becker’s Spine Review recently published an article answering, “Where does spine need a disruptor most?“. The spine surgery industry has seen major shifts through the years. But some areas may be due for a serious shakeup.
Here are the areas where six spine surgeons told Becker’s that change needs to happen.
Ernest Braxton, MD. Vail-Summit Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery (Vail, Colo.): I think the area that is in most need of disruption is not necessarily with an implant or a device. It is a method to keep up with the Herculean task of keeping up with preauthorization. So having more tools and equipment to access the available literature quickly, accessing insurance indications more quickly, and getting an ability to do an automated response. So it’s more along the preauthorization, getting people through the system, through the operator to the operating room. I think that the preauthorization process is in line for disruption because we’re using antiquated equipment, we’re sending faxes and trying to find old patient records. It should be a much more automated, unified system to get across our indications of reasons for doing surgeries that we do.
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