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Dr. Oren N. Gottfried practices at Duke Spine Center.

Oren N. Gottfried, M.D., professor of neurosurgery at Duke Medical School in the Dept. of Neurosurgery and director of the Neurosciences Clinical Specialties Unit at Duke University School of Medicine, told Fox News Digital in an email on Sunday, “When someone is struck by lightning, they require prompt medical assistance.

From risk-sharing payment models to increased scrutiny placed on hospital surgeons and expanded data collection and integration, six surgeons predict how the specialty will change as healthcare shifts from a fee-for-service model toward value-based care.

Standards of care for spine surgery will become increasingly aligned as surgeons become more reliant on patient outcome data to drive treatment, one spine surgeon predicts.

A new machine learning tool that assesses surgical risk—dubbed Pythia— helps amplify the expertise of Duke providers in predicting postoperative outcomes for different types of high-risk surgeries.

Oren Gottfried, MD, is a spinal neurosurgeon at Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hospital.

“From the rise of robots to the use of big data and a move away from hospital-owned practices, changes in the field of spine surgery will be very evident by 2030, six spine surgeons predict.”

“Generating clinical guidelines for treating CLBP, therefore, has become a nearly impossible task.”