EOS has partnered with Israel’s Rambam Medical Center and PTC to establish a Digital Implant Engineering Center in Haifa. A team of engineers and physicians will jointly design, develop, and produce customized patient implants and medical devices using metal 3D printing technology. EOS will provide metal additive manufacturing capabilities, while PTC’s Creo CAD solution will be used for medical product design. Physicians at Rambam Medical Center will be able to obtain patient-specific implants directly at the point of care, with the goal of reducing reliance on external suppliers, accelerating patient treatment, and improving care quality. The director of Rambam noted that personalized medicine is the future of healthcare; EOS’s Chief Strategy Officer emphasized that open software architecture is key to achieving a ‘scan-to-print’ workflow; and PTC’s Vice President of Technology highlighted that smart digital engineering is driving medical innovation. The center marks the evolution of metal additive manufacturing in healthcare from ‘external outsourcing’ to ‘in-hospital point-of-care manufacturing.’