New Orthopedics Stories!
- Your orthopedic device idea and advice on confidentiality agreements (free contract advice)
- FDA recall of Brainlab software used in spinal navigation
- THINK Surgical partners with UOC for robotic knee procedures
- The inside story of Tiger Woods lumbar fusion and recovery
- Tele-Rehab is as good as face-to-face rehab
- Here it comes! Surgery Residents Begin Training in VR
- The Top 10 Orthopedic Companies by Revenue
- Update on the PODS oversight in Orthopedics
- New grant money available for Orthopedics
- The Lapiplasty 3D bunion correction results in a faster recovery and earlier weight bearing
- Intellirod Spine Receives First-Ever Spine FDA De Novo Approval
- 3 studies question the TRITANIUM acetabular cup survival rate
- The ROSA Robot system is cleared in the US for spine
- Medicare confuses by dropping TKA from the “in-patient only” list of procedures
- “We should all be acting like Amazon getting into Orthopedics”
- Lost a giant in Orthopedics, Dr. David Hungerford
- Stryker acquires OrthoSpace for biodegradable balloon technology for $220M
- Smith & Nephew acquires Brainlab’s orthopaedic joint reconstruction business
- Smith & Nephew acquires skin substitute for $660M (~5X sales)
- Think Surgical raises $134M for robotic joint replacements prior to entering US market
- A Technical Review of Additive Manufacturing in Orthopedics
- Molecular Matrix brings ‘Next Generation’ Bone Regenerative Technology to orthopedics
- OMNI, a knee robotics startup, is acquired by Corin
- How much pent-up demand exists for Joint Arthroplasty?
- Why don’t Orthopedic Sales Reps spend time selling?
- Brilliant! OrthoGrid solves the C-arm distortion problem
- MIS spine surgery provider abruptly shuts its doors
- Orthopedic Surgeon loses $140M in malpractice award to 255 plaintiffs
- Are we done yet? Total is now $1.7B for the Pinnacle hip lawsuit.
- Lima installs the first 3D-printing facility inside a major US hospital campus
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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].
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].
Augmented Reality surgery
Amazon Healthcare
Diagnoses with AI algorithms
Implants with smart sensors
Mega Orthopedic Mergers
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