AMA: Healthcare: 3D Printing Is Reshaping Custom Medical Devices

• 3D Printing for Healthcare is the topic of our next event, AMA: Healthcare on June 4th. For decades, orthotics and prosthetics relied on the same fundamental craft: plaster molds, thermoformed plastic, and hands-on adjustments at every fitting. The results were functional, but stagnant. Jan Rosicky, Co-Founder and Chief of Business Development at Invent Medical, watched…

3D Printing for Healthcare is the topic of our next event, AMA: Healthcare on June 4th. For decades, orthotics and prosthetics relied on the same fundamental craft: plaster molds, thermoformed plastic, and hands-on adjustments at every fitting. The results were functional, but stagnant. Jan Rosicky, Co-Founder and Chief of Business Development at Invent Medical, watched this plateau firsthand. His father founded Invent Medical in 1991. After moving through CAD-CAM, milling, and 3D scanning, the workflows improved but the end product didn’t. “The end product was still pretty much the same,” Rosicky said, which led them to start experimenting with 3D printing in 2010. After testing more than 25 technologies, they settled on HP’s Multi Jet Fusion in 2017, which Rosicky says accelerated the