Mymobility’s Role in Zimmer Biomet’s Digital Transformation (MedTech Strategist)
On its march to becoming a digital leader in orthopedics, Zimmer Biomet and its partner Apple are bringing enhancements and data to mymobility, their remote monitoring platform. In the current COVID-19 era, that partnership looks prescient.
Zimmer Biomet and Apple Inc.’s decision, announced in October 2018, to create the mymobility digital platform had nothing to do with COVID-19, of course. As the largest player in total joint surgery (TJA), ZBH has been on a determined march toward a future as an orthopedics informatics powerhouse. Given its significant exposure to elective surgery uncertainties, however, any steps the company takes to become more digital-centric reflects responses both to COVID-19 challenges and beyond that, long-term trends in orthopedics.
Mymobility works by connecting potential TJA patients to their healthcare team using an Apple Watch and iPhone. It provides clinicians with important physiological metrics pre-operatively and post-operatively about patients, including heart rate, step count, pain scores, and other functions. Pa...
