Guest Article: Medical Device Outsourced R&D – A Disruptive Innovation
Medical Device Outsourced R&D – A Disruptive Innovation (for OrthoStreams, by David Skinlo, Marker Medical www.markermedical.com) Clayton Christensen coined the term […]
Growing trend in flat-fee bundled payment for Joint Surgeries
ONE-BILL JOINT SURGERY GROWING (Orthopedics This Week) Is the practice of charging one inclusive payment for surgical services, sometimes called “bundled
Preview for the upcoming 2014 STEM CELL SUMMIT in New York
NEW YORK STEM CELL SUMMIT: 2014 PREVIEW (Orthopedics This Week) Sales of stem cell products in 2013 skyrocketed, we estimate, 42%
Major and Sweeping Changes coming to the FDA
MAJOR AND SWEEPING CHANGES PLANNED FOR FDA (Orthopedics This Week) Like the British navy sailing to the Falkland Islands, the Food
New Stryker profile available for download from OrthoStreams
Click here to download PDF 4-PAGE OVERVIEW INCLUDES THESE SECTIONS: About Sales Globally Current Landscape Corporate Foibles Key
Is the IPO market soft or is Amedica’s story soft?
Amedica lowers IPO price range, boosts shares on offer (Mass Device) Amedica lowers the price range for its impending initial public
Court Chills Reliance POD Alert Challenge
COURT CHILLS RELIANCE POD ALERT CHALLENGE (Orthopedics This Week) Chill out, dude, and don’t bleed until you’re shot! That’s in essence
Federal Court dismisses POD lawsuit… no injured party
Court Dismisses POD Lawsuit Against OIG (press release) On February 5, 2014, a federal court dismissed a challenge to the U.S.
Biomet anticipates $50M total payout to Metal-on-Metal hip patients, at a cost of $200K per revision
Hip implant payout tops $50 million (Journal Gazette) 800 part of Biomet settlement Biomet Inc. has agreed to pay a base
Engineers at Wash U use $3M NIH grant to re-engineer rotator cuff repairs
Researchers blend orthopedics, engineering to better repair torn rotator cuffs (ECNMag) Rotator cuff tears are among the most common orthopedic injuries
Additional Analysis of the Smith & Nephew acquisition of ArthroCare
Smith & Nephew spend $1.7bn on well-timed ArthroCare buy (Evaluate Group) Smith & Nephew’s $1.7bn cash purchase of a sports medicine specialist, ArthroCare, means
Another first for Google Glass in Orthopedic surgery
ANOTHER GOOGLE GLASS ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY (Orthopedics This Week) Live streaming to the patient’s family? U.S.-based Indian orthopedic surgeon Selen G.
Biomet loses $56M Metal-on-Metal hip case, 900 more cases to go
JUDGE APPROVES $56 MILLION BIOMET METAL HIP SETTLEMENT (Orthopedics This Week) A Federal judge approved settlement of Biomet, Inc.’s metal-on-metal hip
Smith & Nephew acquires ArthroCare for $1.7B (4.5 X sales)
Smith & Nephew strengthens global sports medicine business through agreement to acquire ArthroCare for $1.7 billion (press release) Smith & Nephew
Early studies show microspheres may prevent bone infections after joint replacement
Early studies show microspheres may prevent bone infections after joint replacement (Eurekalert) Currently more than 1 million knee replacements and hip
Wright Medical acquires two extremities startups for $90M and $35M – Solana and OrthoPro
Wright Medical Group, Inc. Announces Acquisition of Solana Surgical, LLC and Entry into Definitive Agreement to Acquire OrthoPro, LLC (press release)
Amedica plans to raise $35M from its public offering
Amedica looks to $35M U.S. IPO (MassDevice) Read Amedica’s S-1 Form Amedica says it’s looking to raise between $32 million and
K2M, now the biggest private spine company, turns 10 years old and gets ready to go public
K2M TURNS 10 – BIGGEST PRIVATE SPINE COMPANY (Orthopedics This Week) Johhn Kostuik, M.D.’s baby is 10 years old and has
Replace the hip, improve the heart
CHANGE THE HIP, IMPROVE THE HEART (Orthopedics This Week) Does having a total hip or knee replacement benefit a patient’s heart?
Atlanta medical device company lands $11M to launch smart materials orthopedics technology
Atlanta medical device company lands $11M to launch smart materials orthopedics technology (MedCityNews) MedShape, Inc., an Atlanta, Ga.-based medical device company, announced it
Death Rate After Hip, Knee Replacements Has Dropped Sharply
Death Rate After Hip, Knee Replacements Has Dropped Sharply: Study (HealthDay) Experts credit advances in post-surgical care for lower risk
In healthcare today, there is little transparency of the implant pricing
IMPLANT COSTS – A HEALTH CARE SECRET (Orthopedics This Week) How much does a new hip cost? The doctors who implant
Irish fracture repair startup gets €1.8m in funding for Hip Fracture device
X-Bolt Orthopaedics Secures €1.8m for Hip Fracture Product (Irish Times) Dublin-based X-Bolt Orthopaedics, a hip fracture fixation company, has secured €1.8
Stem Cell Therapy Following Meniscus Knee Surgery May Reduce Pain, Restore Meniscus
Stem Cell Therapy Following Meniscus Knee Surgery May Reduce Pain, Restore Meniscus (press release) A single stem cell injection following meniscus
Kevin Stone throws his opinion into the recent Meniscus Debate
STONE ON THE GREAT MENISCUS DEBATE (Orthopedics This Week) Clinical Research proves that a partial meniscus trim for a degenerative meniscus
Arthrocare finally gets some relief from its sales fraud nightmare
ARTHROCARE GETS RELIEF FROM DISCOCARE NIGHTMARE (Orthopedics This Week) ArthroCare Corporation’s long DiscoCare nightmare under a previous management team appears
98 year old gets new Total Knee, begs the question – How old is too old for a Joint Replacement?
HOW OLD IS TOO OLD FOR JOINT REPLACEMENT? (Orthopedics This Week) 98-yr-old Yemen citizen gets knee replacement (Times of India) Is
Dutch are doing a one-step Autologous Chondrocyte knee repair with harvested stem cells
INSTANT AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE REPAIR (Orthopedics This Week) Instant Autologous Chondrocyte Repair! The orthopedics department at UMC Utrecht in the Netherlands has
OrthoSpace’s resorbable InSpace Balloon reduces rotator cuff pain for patients
New Implant Eases Rotator Cuff Pain (JewishVoiceNY) Company website Orthopedic balloon startup raises $2.6M to treat shoulder Already in use in
Globus Medical acquires robotics developer Excelsius Surgical
Globus Medical a leading musculoskeletal implant manufacturer, today announced that it has acquired Excelsius Surgical. Excelsius Surgical is developing a next
SI-Bone reaches 10,000 procedures to fuse the sacroiliac joint
SI-BONE REACHES 10,000 IFUSE PROCEDURES (Orthopedics This Week) SI-BONE, Inc. is announcing that it has reached the 10,000 procedure mark with
ArthoCare makes deal with DOJ – enters into 2 year deferred prosecution agreement
ArthroCare Announces Entry into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (press release) Read all DOJ Timelines… Timeline of DOJ versus Orthopedic Companies ArthroCare Corp.(NASDAQ:
Whistleblowers collect big in 2013 – Orthopedics is the “top” Stark judgement
WHISTLEBLOWERS COLLECT BIG IN 2013 – ORTHOPEDICS TOP “STARK” JUDGMENT (Orthopedics This Week) The year 2013 was another banner year for
New Hydrogel can temporarily seal wound, then reopen wound for the next stage surgery
HYDROGEL SEALS WOUNDS THEN RELEASES (Orthopedics This Week) Everyone of a certain age remembers the pain of a doctor’s stripping off
Clinical Research proves that a partial meniscus trim for a degenerative meniscus tear is unnecessary
Finnish research to revolutionise indications for knee surgery (New England Journal of Medicine on 25 December 2013) The Finnish Degenerative Meniscal Lesion
Sham surgery is just as effective as an arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in diminishing knee pain
SHAM SURGERY AS GOOD AS PARTIAL MENISCECTOMY (Orthopedics This Week) Sham surgery is just as effective as an arthroscopic partial meniscectomy
First unicompartmental knee surgery performed in France with the Navio system
Blue Belt Technologies announces first Navio™ Unicondylar Knee Replacement performed in France (press release) Blue Belt Technologies announces the first Navio™
Hospital for Special Surgery sets record for 5th straight year
ANOTHER FIRST FOR HSS! (Orthopedics This Week) For the fifth year in a row Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has an
Medical Device Design Controls Simplified (Special offer!)
We all know that Design Control documentation is an expensive, time consuming, and vital component to medical device product development.
Aurora Spine implants the first ZIP MIS interspinous Implant in a human
First Surgical Implant of ZIP MIS Interspinous Implant Performed in Germany (press release) Aurora Spine Corporation (TSX VENTURE:ASG) announced today the
FDA upgrades its Medical Device Recalls Database
FDA Announces Improvements To The Medical Device Recalls Database (FDA) Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Devices and
Stryker settles the first 4 hip-implant lawsuits, 600 more are in the queue
Stryker Corp. settles first batch of hip-implant lawsuits (NorthJersey.com) Four patients who claimed to have received defective hip implants from Stryker
Ohio Spine Surgeon who is under investigation for scamming Medicare disappears
SPINE SURGEON UNDER INVESTIGATION DISAPPEARS (Orthopedics This Week) “Where’s Dr. Durrani?” Atiq Durrani, M.D., a Pakistani-born spine surgeon who is under
Review article suggests that Orthopedists are too conservative with Load Bearing?
Orthopedists too Conservative With Load Bearing? (Orthopedics This Week) You put a lot of work into that surgery. Why not play
SI-BONE shares Clinical Results of Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion
SI-BONE Announces Publication of 2 Significant Clinical Evidence Papers on Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Joint Fusion (press release) SI-BONE, Inc. (San Jose,
DePuy Synthes launches side-loading Radial Head Prosthesis system
DePuy Synthes Trauma Launches Radial Head Prosthesis System in the U.S. (press release) DePuy Synthes Trauma* announces that it is launching
3-D Printing for patient specific medical devices will reach $1B by 2020
According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research, “3D Printing in Medical Applications Market (Medical Implants (Dental,
Duke Engineers match both the strength and suppleness of cartilage with artificial materials
Engineers Make Strides Toward Artificial Cartilage (Science Daily) A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage
US Total Joint Registry shows that the fat patients are younger, not older
YOUNGER TKA PATIENTS FATTER THAN OLDER (Orthopedics This Week) Stop blaming obesity among those 65 and older for the unprecedented increase
New Bone Graft material from the sea is the answer for the resorbtion problem – coralline hydroxyapatite
SPECIALLY TREATED SEA-CORAL SUCCEEDS AS BONE GRAFT (Orthopedics This Week) Sea coral is back and may be better than ever—as bone