Stryker and Max Smart hospital partner

Stryker and Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket said on May 13 that they have entered a strategic collaboration to expand surgeon training, clinical education and patient care in robotic-arm assisted joint replacement in India. The announcement was published through PR Newswire and carried by Business Standard and other outlets. Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, Saket will serve as a training and education center for orthopaedics under the arrangement, according to the companies’ statement. The work will focus on surgeon education, robotic-arm assisted joint replacement procedures and skills transfer at the hospital’s Saket campus in New Delhi. Abhay Soi, chairman and managing director of Max Healthcare Institute, said the collaboration is intended to strengthen orthopaedic care delivery in India through structured training frameworks and advanced clinical education. (prnewswire.com) Dr. Ramneek Mahajan, chairman of orthopaedics, joint replacement and chief robotic joint replacement at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital, said the center is meant to provide hands-on surgeon training and spread best practices in robotic-assisted joint replacement. (finance.yahoo.com) John Collings, Stryker’s president for Asia Pacific, said the company is working with healthcare institutions across the region to scale robotics-assisted surgical capability and support demand for joint replacement. Aman Rishi of Stryker India was also named among participants in the announcement alongside Max executives including Dr. Mradul Kaushik and Dr. Sandeep Budhiraja. (finance.yahoo.com) Stryker’s joint replacement business in India centers on its Mako robotic-arm assisted platform for hip and knee procedures. On its India website, Stryker says more than 2 million Mako procedures have been performed globally, the system is installed in more than 45 countries, and the platform is backed by more than 500 published, peer-reviewed studies. Max Healthcare already markets robotic surgery across its network and says it has 15 advanced surgical robotic systems and more than 150 trained robotic surgeons. (finance.yahoo.com) On its Saket hospital page, Max describes Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital as a 650-plus-bed tertiary care facility with 25 modular operating theatres, more than 170 critical care beds and orthopaedics among its core specialties. (stryker.com) The announcement did not disclose financial terms, a target number of surgeons to be trained, or a timeline for the first training cohort. It also did not say whether the program would be limited to Max doctors or opened to outside orthopaedic surgeons. Those details were not available in the materials reviewed. Max Smart’s Saket campus at Press Enclave Marg in New Delhi is the named site for the training effort, and the next public milestone will be the rollout of hands-on education programs there for orthopaedic surgeons, according to the companies’ statement. (maxhealthcare.in 1) (maxhealthcare.in 2) (finance.yahoo.com)