The MEDICREA Group announced that it has extended the FDA 510(k) clearance of its proprietary surgical planning software, UNiD HUB™, to integrate a complete database of the Company’s implant portfolio to directly simulate and select implants during surgical planning provided for surgery, enabling significant improvements in surgical efficiency. Healthcare reform is built upon the premise that costs can be reduced while improving clinical outcomes. The cost of reprocessing and sterilization of a spine system increases as the number of trays which comprise that set increases. Similarly, the time and effort required to complete reprocessing and sterilization can impact the turnaround between cases. The minimization of a system footprint provides hospitals with an opportunity to reduce costs associated with inventory and sterilization. Adding implant selection to the growing number of services associated with MEDICREA®’s UNiD™ technology enables the Company to optimize the implants provided for each surgery, meeting the market needs. This recent FDA clearance makes MEDICREA® the only manufacturer able to streamline inventory required to operate as well as provide patient-specific devices, through intelligent pre-operative surgical planning. It also enables MEDICREA®’s UNiD LAB™ team of biomedical engineers to more efficiently generate comprehensive surgical plans, using outcome-centered predictive modeling algorithms to optimize surgical strategy. These documented UNID™ surgical plans also allow the operating room staff to clearly anticipate when each implant will be needed by the surgeon. This is a critical combination as it streamlines the OR workflow with precise pre-selected implants and alignment of staff to the patient specific surgical plan and as it makes the surgery safer for the patient by reducing the chances for errors. The integration of an implant database with MEDICREA®’s UNiD HUB™ enables the Company to perform a comprehensive patient-specific preoperative planning that will more completely link implant selection with post-operative analyses and increase the robustness and efficiency of MEDICREA®’s proprietary predictive model. By substantially increasing the clinical and logistical data integrated into UNiD ASI™ (Adaptive Spine Intelligence), MEDICREA® continues to disrupt spine industry norms and extends its leadership of the digital revolution in spine care.