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1. A method for managing inventories of orthopaedic implants, the method comprising:
receiving, by a computing system and over a network, (i) an authorization to retrieve medical images and metadata associated with the medical images from a healthcare provider network and (ii) a location within the healthcare provider network from which the medical images and the metadata can be retrieved; retrieving, from the location within the healthcare provider network, (i) a medical image of a patient's bone and (ii) surgeon preference data, selected by a healthcare provider that identifies a desired characteristic of an orthopaedic implant, over the network by the computing system; selecting, by the computing system, a number of orthopaedic implants from an inventory of orthopaedic implants, the inventory of orthopaedic implants comprises a plurality of orthopaedic implants available for selection, the orthopaedic implants being selected based on the medical image and the surgeon preference data; retrieving, by the computing system, a stored digital template for each of the selected orthopaedic implants from a data repository comprising a plurality of digital templates; determining, by the computing system, an axis of the patient's bone from the medical image; performing, by the computing system, a number of digital templating procedures on the medical image to automatically superimpose each digital template of each selected orthopaedic implant onto the medical image in a location and orientation that is automatically selected as a function of the determined axis of the patient's bone and an amount of bone to be resected from the patient's bone during an orthopaedic surgical procedure to generate a number of digital templated images; and transmitting, by a communication circuit of the computing system, the number of digital templated images generated from the number of digital templating procedures to the healthcare provider over the network using a communication protocol. |