Transforming Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery with Data: From Claims Analysis to AI-Driven Insights
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 329
Special Issue Editor
Interests: foot and ankle surgery; trauma surgery; muscle injury; muscle regeneration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The accelerating digital transformation in healthcare is offering unprecedented opportunities to improve clinical outcomes and health services in orthopedic surgery and traumatology. For this Special Issue, we welcome high-quality contributions that explore how data—ranging from national claims databases and electronic health records to machine learning models and big data pipelines—can provide novel insights into orthopedic care, surgical outcomes, patient safety, and system-wide efficiency.
We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary work spanning orthopedic and trauma surgery, medical informatics, epidemiology, and health services research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Analysis of large-scale administrative health datasets (e.g., claims, registries);
- Predictive modeling of surgical outcomes using AI/ML techniques;
- Quality measurement and benchmarking in orthopedic and trauma care;
- Postoperative complication tracking and risk stratification;
- Real-world data applications for surgical decision-making and patient pathways;
- The evaluation of health system performance in musculoskeletal interventions;
- Ethical, legal, and policy challenges in the use of big data in orthopedics.
Prof. Dr. Ioannis Stratos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- orthopedic surgery
- big data analytics
- artificial intelligence
- health services research
- claims databases
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