EOS has entered into a collaboration with Rambam Health Care Campus and PTC to set up a Digital Implant Engineering Center in Haifa, Israel.
A team of engineers and physicians will work together to design, develop, and produce customised patient implants and medical devices with metal 3D printing.
EOS will provide the metal additive manufacturing technology, while PTC's advanced Creo computer-aided design (CAD) solution will be deployed for the design of medical products.
With this technology pairing, Rambam Health Care physicians hope to be able to leverage patient-specific implants at the point of care. They expect this to reduce the reliance on external suppliers, speed up patient treatment, and enhance the level of patient care.
“Personalised care represents the future of medicine, and Rambam is establishing a significant benchmark with its dedicated in-house centre,” said Dr. Michal Mekel, Director General (CEO), Rambam Health Care Campus. “This initiative supports Rambam in developing patient-specific care that emphasises innovation, clinical value, and operational excellence.”
“Point-of-care innovation in healthcare depends on integrating advanced industrial-grade additive manufacturing with validated hospital workflows. Our open software structure enables such scan-to-print workflows,” added Nikolai Zaepernick, CSO, EOS. “We view this as a vital step toward a repeatable, highly responsive and digitally connected model for patient-specific care.”
“Cutting-edge personalised implants require a connected digital foundation that ties together clinical need, design, manufacturability and workflow discipline,” offered Dr. Ronen Ben-Horin, Vice President Technology, PTC. “The Digital Engineering Center at Rambam demonstrates how intelligent digital engineering drives innovation. We see this development as a breakthrough for the health care industry and are proud our technology will play a central role.”
