Patent ID: 8265949

Claim:
A method of a vendor to create a surgical plan for a patient of a healthcare facility that is external to the vendor, comprising receiving, with a surgical plan system, a surgical plan request transmitted from the healthcare facility, the surgical plan request including (i) data relevant to the patient, (ii) data relevant to a surgical procedure to be performed upon the patient, and (iii) preference data that identifies surgical preferences related to the surgical procedure of an orthopaedic surgeon, generating, with the surgical plan system and based on the surgical plan request, an order of surgical procedure instructional images that define surgical steps of the surgical procedure, creating, in response to receiving the surgical plan request, a surgical plan on the surgical plan system, the surgical plan having been customized for the patient per data of the surgical plan request, the surgical plan including a plurality of instructions that configure a computer assisted orthopedic surgery system to assist in the surgical procedure upon the patient by displaying the surgical procedure instructional images in the generated order, and sending, from the surgical plan system, the surgical plan to the healthcare facility for execution on the computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system.