THE TEN BEST NEW SPINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2013 (Orthopedics This Week)
The winners of the 2013 Orthopedics This Week Best New Technology award for spine are:
Benvenue Medical, Inc.
Globus Medical, Inc.
Johns Hopkins University/Siemens Healthcare
AFcell Medical, Inc.
Orthozon Technologies, LLC
OsteoMed
Paciera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
PhDx Systems, Inc.
Trakya University in Turkey.
This annual award rewards inventors, engineering teams, surgeons and their companies who’ve created the most innovative, enduring and practical products in 2013 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 above criteria.
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