OrthoSensor, an Intelligent Orthopedics Leader, Bags $15M Funding

            The Future of Orthopedics is Smart Implants (related article) OrthoSensor, Intelligent Orthopedics Leader, Secures an Additional $15 MM in Series B Financing (press release) OrthoSensor, Inc., the leader in intelligent orthopedics, announced that the company has closed on an additional $15 million in Series B Preferred Stock financing, bringing the total Series [...]

The Future of Orthopedics Is Smart Implants

On a dark cold morning in February 2021 the Orthopedic staff at Cleveland Clinic receives a worrisome email from one of their total hip patients, Samantha Ingram. However, this email was not written by Samantha but rather by Samantha’s hip replacement.  The email from her hip implant explains that a local Staph infection has just [...]

Implantable Sensor Keeps an Eye on Healing of Bones Post Surgery

Implantable Sensor Keeps an Eye on Healing of Bones Post Surgery (MedGadget) Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have devised an implantable orthopedic sensor that can provide basic data on the state of implants as tissue heals following a surgery. The device is simple and cheap to build, and is powered externally using the same device that [...]

Interview With OrthoSensor CEO, Jay Pierce, Regarding the Smart Trial Technology

Q&A With Jay Pierce, CEO of OrthoSensor (MedGadget) Orthopedic surgery can often seem like car repair as wrenches, hammers, and other metal tools are put to work on the human body. And just like car mechanics of decades past, surgeons with years of experience develop the necessary intuition when performing certain procedures. Hoping to bring modern [...]

Wireless Implantable Chip Delivers Osteoporosis Drug When It Is Needed

Wireless Implantable MicroCHIPS Deliver Drugs When Needed (MedGadget.com) MicroCHIPS, an MIT spin-out company out of Waltham, MA, has announced results of a clinical study evaluating its wirelessly controlled implantable drug releasing electronic microchip. The device features controllable reservoir arrays that can contain a drug or a microsensor.  The reservoirs can be opened and closed either based [...]

OrthoData, Spine Fusion Startup, Plans to Move From Louisville to Cleveland

      OrthoData raises $1.1 M round for spinal fusion monitor (July 2008) Spine fusion device startup eyes Cleveland move, more funding (Brandon Glenn @ MedCityNews) A Louisville company that’s developing a medical device to help surgeons monitor the progress of spinal fusion surgeries is a eyeing a relocation to the Cleveland area. OrthoData is hoping to attract some [...]

Stryker Orthopaedics Licenses Smart Total Knee Trials From OrthoSensor

     Stryker Orthopaedics Enters into Agreement with OrthoSensor for Intelligent Surgical Platform  (press release) MAHWAH, N.J. and SUNRISE, Fla., Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Stryker Corporation’s Orthopaedics Division and OrthoSensor, Inc., the leader in intelligent orthopaedics, today announced an agreement in which OrthoSensor will provide the OrthoSensor™ Knee Trial, designed for use with Stryker’s Triathlon Knee System. The OrthoSensor [...]

RFID System Will Monitor and Trace Orthopedic Implants

  RFID System Will Monitor and Trace Orthopedic Implants (RFID World Canada) (RFIDWorld.ca) At the University of Pittsburgh, a group of engineers have developed an RFID system that will monitor and trace orthopedic implants at a far higher level than they can be traced currently. The highlight of the system is that instead of radio [...]

OrthoSensor Wins ISO Certification for Its Smart Knee Trialing System

  OrthoSensor, Intelligent Orthopedic Device Innovator, Receives ISO 13485 Certification (press release) OrthoSensor sells a smart trialing system gives surgeon intra-operaive advice on balanced loading of the knee.  It’s smart knee disposable trialing system is already 510(k) cleared. The Future of Orthopedics is Smart Implants http://www.orthosensor.com      

An Ortho-Tag Sensor Will Tell Orthopedists the Condition of an Implanted Device With the Wave of a Wand

  Wireless tags give physicians details and condition of orthopedic implants with the wave of a wand (TechNews) Ortho-Tag would be affixed to an orthopedic implant and scanned via radio-frequency with a probe and RFID tag developed at Pitt. A card (foreground) would be available to patients with an existing implant. Credit: U of Pittsburgh [...]

OrthoSensor Ushers in a New Category – Smart Implants to Monitor Early Signs of Infection, Bone Ingrowth and Other Problems

OrthoSensor’s ‘RoboCop’ Tech Opens Up New Orthopedic Vistas (WSJ) OrthoSensor, Intelligent Orthopedic Device Innovator, Secures $21 MM Series B Financing (press release) The Future of Orthopedics is Smart Implants OrthoSensor’s products are disposable, sensor-enabled devices that  provide quantitative, intra-operative feedback to surgeons to help ensure the proper balance and alignment of orthopedic implants. These intelligent devices [...]

iWalk Raises $15M in Series C to Further Develop an Active Prosthetic Foot

iWalk Before You iRun: MIT Prosthetics Startup Ramps Up Operations With New VC Money (Xconomy) http://www.iwalkpro.com/

Scripps Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Smart Knee

Scripps Researchers Receive NIH Grant to Study Smart Knee (Scripps Health)

‘Smart Hip’ Monitors Real-Time Performance of Bone Implants, Stimulates Bone Growth

Clara Frias  has created this “intelligent” hip device in order to detect an implant’s eventual problems and to stimulate bone growth, thus improving the quality of life for patients and reducing the risk of further surgery.  The Smart Hip is a network of capsules, measuring sensors and actuators that are placed on the hip implant. [...]

Spine21 to Develop the Bionic Inter-Spinous Process Spacers That Will Use Radio Frequency to Control Spacing

Spine21, an Israel spine startup that is a portfolio company of TechnionSeed, a partnership between four leading international VC funds and the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.  Spine21 has received $222,000 loan for the venture.   http://ow.ly/uHn0

OrthoChip, a Wireless Chip Reader for Spine Disc Pressure, Will Be Developed by OrthoMEMS and Stellartech

 Strategic Alliance…  http://ow.ly/rOSl Get Ready for Smart Implants…  http://orthostreams.com/?p=9

A Glimpse Into the Future of Medicine – OrthoMEMS Expands Patent License for Wireless Biomedical Sensors Beyond Spine and Orthopedics

http://ow.ly/dcJj

Get Ready for Smart Implants

In earlier articles I have predicted the rise of Smart Implants in Orthopedic medicine. Now it’s 2012 and there is no stopping it…embedded sensors are coming to Orthopedics. This is driven by a convergence of three areas – new technology capabilities in embedded sensing, a growing understanding of embedded chip capabilities by Orthopedic manufacturers, and incentives for [...]

It’s 2009… Where Are the Smart Implants in Orthopedics?

 It’s 2009… Where are the Smart Implants in Orthopedics?  Over 650,000 total joints will be implanted this year in the US.  None will contain microchips.        At this period in medical history, I would have bet that orthopedic implants would be able to “tell” physicians and health care workers what is going on with [...]

May 18, 2012

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