The Top Ten Best New Spine Technologies for 2011 (Robin Young @ OTW)
The winners of the 2011 Orthopedics This Week Best New Technology award for Spine are: Advanced Biologics, LLC, Aesculap, Inc., AlloSource, CoAlign Innovations, Inc., Ellipse Technologies, Inc., NeuroLogica Corporation, NLT SPINE, Nocimed, LLC, The Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Thompson MIS.
This annual award rewards inventors, engineering teams, surgeons and their companies who’ve created the most innovative, enduring and practical products in 2011 to treat back pain. To win the Orthopedics This Week Best New Technology for spine care, a new technology must meet the following criteria:
Be creative and innovative.
Have long-term significance to the problem of treating the diseases of the spine. Does this technology have staying power?
Solve a clinical problem. To what extent does this technology solve a current clinical problem or problem that is inadequately solved today?
Does it have the potential to improve standard of care?
Is it cost effective?
I would use it.
Our panel of surgeons scores every submission on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the highest score) for each of the a...
