New Orthopedics Stories!
- 6 Questions with Rich Walsh, who is delivering digital health for Ortho, PT and Sports Medicine care delivery settings
- Who might end up owning most of the spine outcomes data in the US next decade? The American Spine Registry.
- DePuy Synthes acquires JointPoint for better total hip surgical navigation
- Stryker doubles down on robotics with $500M spine imaging acquisition
- Future use of orthopedic robots: remote surgery
- Why Navigation for TKA didn’t work back in 2009, and why Robot assistance for TKA works today.
- Why the Big Orthos don’t need internal startups.
- Improve outcomes after total joint surgery with automated texts
- Arthrex wins a $375M deal with Dept of Defense
- Getting the price right: Hospitals target variation in joint replacement
- Omar is retiring. A quick look back at how he transformed Medtronic into the world’s largest medtech company.
- 20% of total hip patients may have a spinal deformity
- The digital future in orthopedics may be “less Rep”, instead of Rep-Less.
- Device Mfg – Surgeon relationships are ripe for fraud litigation
- How to prevent yourself from ever joining a Startup in 10 easy steps.
- 10 Robots in Orthopedic Surgery today – InfoGraphic
- Intellirod Spine launches wearable sensor to solve the compliance issue
- Vertebral Body Tethering to become a mainstream Scoliosis Treatment
- Surgeons are poor predictors of the benefits from meniscus and cartilage procedures
- What to do when the Cartiva Implant Fails
- The short history of Titan Spine from 2006 to 2018
- Have government scientists solved the artificial hips corrosion problem?
- The high cost of total joint procedures in the US is driving patients to Medical Tourism
- Globus Medical acquires Stelkast for $28M to advance robotics platform in total joints
- 5 Historical Game Changers in Orthopedics
- ConforMIS is our TiVo in the orthopedics industry
- 67 patients sue hospital for dirty orthopedic instruments that caused infections
- New spine robotics startup surfaces with a serious leadership team and funding
- DOJ sues LIFE SPINE for paying kickbacks to surgeons for product use
- 3 spine surgeons share their early robotic surgery experiences
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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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