MedTech Dive March 24, 2025
Thomas Payne, HCA Healthcare’s national medical director of robotics, explains how the largest U.S. health system is vetting a new crop of market entrants.
As the national medical director of robotics for HCA Healthcare, Thomas Payne is on the front lines of the revolution in robotically assisted surgery.
Payne works with HCA’s surgeons to choose which robots will be used in the health system’s facilities, determining the best technologies to acquire from a rapidly expanding field of candidates.
The country’s largest for-profit hospital operator now employs about 20 different robotic platforms across its centers, or a total of 933 robots as of February. The robots have helped perform more than 1 million surgical procedures at HCA facilities, a milestone reached...
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