Top Innovator Organizations - 2023

Children’s Hospital and Medical Center is a pediatric healthcare provider based in Omaha, Nebraska, offering more than 50 specialty services across a five-state region through one 225-bed hospital and 11 clinics.

Leaders have:

• Created an in-house 3D advanced visualization program to better prepare surgeons for complex surgeries and promote research and education. The program began with 3D printing in 2016 and has evolved from there.
• Added a virtual reality component to the organization’s 3D visualization program, which assisted in the planning and execution of an 18-hour surgery.
• Installed a robotic, voice-controlled 3D/4K surgical visualization exoscope. The system allows surgeons to keep their line of sight upward; aids dissection through high magnification and zoom; and boosts collaboration through detailed, realtime 3D imaging.