3DPrint.com November 25, 2025
“At Mayo Clinic, 3D printing isn’t a side project, it’s a patient-specific service that runs on hospital time, helping surgeons plan and act with confidence,” says Dr. Jonathan Morris, a neuroradiologist and Medical Director and Co-founder of Anatomic Modeling Unit (AMU) in the Department of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
The 161-year-old institution has built a 24/7 manufacturing service inside the hospital, and it succeeds where industry won’t. The point-of-care system takes surgeon orders straight from the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and turns them into patient-specific tools, models, and sterilizable devices for the operating room (OR).
“It’s a manufacturing system that serves a hospital. It is a service embedded in the EMR-to-OR workflow, supporting surgeons across...







