Health committee  Thank you for the opportunity. It's hard to cover everything we do in 10 minutes. We do have a very active collaboration between clinicians, surgeons, physical therapists, and our engineering colleagues as well. We've developed several areas of interest. One is an implant retri

Health committee  Absolutely. We're very involved and have discussions. Our offices are beside each other, so I can walk down the hallway and talk to our Ph.D.s about the case I just did and how I thought it failed, and we can analyze it. The other component, of course, is the testing of new impl

Health committee  It's a good question. Thank you. From my perception, what I see is pockets of this sort of philosophy developing across Canada. There are small pilot projects. I think you've heard about that already today. Hospital organizations are embracing this. I think we're seeing pockets

Health committee  And it's so simple.

Health committee  In developing implants, we stand behind the rest of the world. We're hoping to change that at Concordia. A lot of the product development happens in the U.S. and in Europe, but I think we have a unique opportunity in Canada because we have a very close community of orthopedic sur

Health committee  That's an interesting question. Thank you. In the ideal world we would get to the point where we wouldn't have to do hip and knee replacements, where we can prevent the progression of arthritis. That would mean the early detection and treatment of osteoarthritis, and early detec

Health committee  No. I haven't run those numbers. I think when you show these big changes in length of stay, in mortality, the value of it is obvious to people, and it's easier to obtain those resources for the data structure.

Health committee  I think the challenge we've already mentioned is that we almost have 13 health care systems in Canada, and we have many multiple pilot projects going on. I've been involved with a couple of groups. One is the Arthritis Alliance of Canada. It's made up of a lot of member organiza

Health committee  This is a very new area for us. I mentioned the Orthopaedic Device Innovation Centre, and we're just now going through the machinations of sorting out intellectual property rights to deal with this in our university. Obviously, if you have investors that come in and want to ass

Health committee  I gave a couple of examples of a broad application of Lean theory. Dr. Tétreault has more experience in this than I do and maybe can speak a bit more about it. We didn't find you needed a lot of new resources or money. This was really almost a management philosophy, applying ne

Health committee  I do, yes.

Health committee  Thank you very much. My apologies again for the English-only version. I'll leave it for translation. I'd like to take the next few minutes to speak to you about innovative orthopedic health care delivery and device development. I'm one of four surgeons who work at the Concordia