Fresh Orthopedics Stories!
- Everything you need to know about the Stryker-Wright acquisition
- Insurers and Hospitals may have to show real prices to Patients
- STAR total ankle replacements at 8 years have a 14% poly fracture rate. Safety notice issued.
- FDA panel drills down on metal implants reactions
- Integrating Digital Content inside the orthopedic surgical field can help to improve Patient Care
- 3D printing is coming to bone and cartilage
- 6 Questions with Brian McLaughlin, President and Founder at Amplify, an entrepreneurial leader in additive manufacturing for orthopedics
- Is an ortho company going to acquire Freedom Innovations’ smart foot, ankle and knee prosthetics?
- OsteoRemedies launches the 1st pre-formed Knee Spacer with Modular Stems.
- Sacred Cows in Orthopedics
- To propel your orthopedics career, run away from comfort.
- “I need an Engineer.”
- Augmented reality startup, MediView XR, raises $4.5M in funding
- My company sold for $100M and I got Zilch. How can that be?
- Life Spine fined $6M by DOJ without criminal charges at this point.
- It’s just a matter of time before Amazon will permeate Orthopedics.
- Changes are coming to Smith+Nephew
- Sensors can be shaped to capture motion for all joints
- Robot accuracy for UKA without the Robot
- Ortho Startup bringing artificial intelligence to Orthopedics
- CurvaFix wins FDA clearance for steerable fixation in the pelvis
- 30 lessons learned in 30 years of Orthopedics
- The answer to your execution question is a Who
- New guidance from FDA on software in orthopedics.
- Orthopedics companies need to partner with consumer-tech firms to prepare for the prevention/wellness wave in the 2020’s.
- Can Stryker’s massive distribution muscle save Conformis?
- Really? Brainlab’s new intraoperative imaging robot
- Work in a startup three times in your life.
- Analyst: Latest Stryker deal is more than “just another tuck-in acquisition”
- New Podcast – Q&A with Mark Foster on “Inside Orthopedics”
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Trends in Orthopedics
Software is taking over Ortho [more].
Robotics is the new space race [more].
VR surgical training will replace traditional training [more].
3D printed implants are coming to every procedure [more].
Same day procedures have no end [more].
Combination materials in implants will be big in plating [more].
Single-use disposable surgery kits provide many solutions [more].
Wearables for real-time outcomes analysis are emerging [more].
Virtual Physical Therapy [more]
Class III startups will become rare [more]
New materials in orthopedics [more].
Incremental Design Changes
Frivolous Press Releases [more].
Generic Implants [more].
Volume to Value [more]
IDE / PMAs [more].
Amazon Healthcare-[more]
Diagnoses with AI algorithms-wrist FX
Implants with smart sensors-Canary
Augmented Reality surgery-[more]
Mega Orthopedic Mergers
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