Flashback - I wrote about the future smart implant space back in 2012 here. Lucky or good? You make the call.
Are smart knee implants the next big thing in ortho? (Medical Device & Outsourcing)
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Orthopedic device industry watchers think so, and Zimmer Biomet appears set to be the first out of the gate this year through a partnership with the startup Canary Medical.
What do drug-eluting stents and “smart” implantable medical devices have in common? It turns out it’s a lot, at least according to Dr. Bill Hunter.
The founder and CEO of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals from 1992 to 2011, Hunter saw that medical device companies had cardiovascular stents that could save lives but also caused inflammation problems, while pharmaceutical companies had drugs that could stop the inflammation. He helped bring the technologies together, playing a role in the invention and development of the Taxus drug-eluting coronary stent from Boston Scientific and the Zilver PTX peripheral drug-eluting stent from Cook Medical.
Hunter started Canary Medical (Vancouver, British Columbia) in 2014 because he thought that micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), sensors, batteries ...
