“The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) grew its national integrated virtual 3D printing network from three hospitals in early 2017 to 20 at the close of 2018.”
“The expanding network, which started at VA’s Puget Sound Health Care System, allows VA health care staff to share ideas, solve problems and pool resources on best practice uses of 3D printing to improve the health care of the nation’s over 20 million veterans.”
“According to the VA, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) “innovators across the 20 sites are using 3D printing to solve a wide range of issues, from presurgical planning to manufacturing hand and foot orthotics…” Read the full article here.
Source: Expanding 3-D-Printing Network Aims To Improve U.S. Veterans’ Healthcare – By Robin Seaton Jefferson, January 31, 2019. Forbes.
