Case Study: Seattle Children’s expands custom 3D printing for surgical care with Smartsheet

Seattle Children’s expands 3D printing with Smartsheet to support 10 surgical models and faster care planning

Seattle Children’s, a pediatric hospital, faced the challenge of managing its complex 3D printing service for custom surgical care and its radiology research data. The existing systems were inflexible and chaotic, leading to lost files and an inability to track long-term projects. They needed a solution that was easy for busy clinicians to use without extensive training. The vendor, Smartsheet, provided its work management platform to address this.

Using Smartsheet, the hospital created a centralized system to manage 3D printing requests, track project details, and serve as a document repository for research data. This solution provided the necessary flexibility and ease of use, allowing clinicians to focus on patient care instead of software. Smartsheet enabled the program to scale efficiently, laying the foundation for a standardized "factory" approach to 3D printing and providing a single source of truth for research protocols.

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