Pricing Pressures and Robotics Are at the Center of AAOS 2018 (MDDI Online) Robotics, pricing concerns, and the prevalence of more procedures being performed at ambulatory centers are some of the hot topics in the orthopedics...
Read MoreI love startups. I write about how startups can take big risks that the big companies cannot. Enter Okani Medical, a Chinese startup. Okani’s is taking a big chance with their new all polymer knee, ORGKnee. Many of you...
Read MoreSuspect Stem Cell Treatments Touted for Knee Arthritis (Medscape) Hundreds of clinics in the United States are selling stem cell treatments for knee osteoarthritis without solid evidence of their claims, researchers warn....
Read MoreHow Augmented Reality Will Make Surgery Safer (By Sarah Murthi, MD & Amitabh Varshney | Harvard Business Review) Some of the biggest medical advances of the last few decades have been in diagnostic imaging—ultrasonogaphy,...
Read MoreStudy Finds “Dual Mobility” Hip Replacement Implant Reduces Risk of Dislocation (HSS) More than 330,000 total hip replacements are performed in the United States each year. Overall, it is a highly successful...
Read MoreDECOMPRESSION WITH COFLEX EXTENDS DURABILITY, SUSTAINABILITY (Orthopedics This Week) New York-based Paradigm Spine, LLC has announced publication of the ESCADA two-year trial results (European Study of coflex And Decompression...
Read MoreGeisinger Announces It Will Stand Behind Cost of Hip Surgery for a Lifetime (press release) Once again, Geisinger is pioneering a ground-breaking new model for care in which the innovative health system has announced it will...
Read MoreAmazon’s Latest Ambition: To Be a Major Hospital Supplier (OrthoFeed) Amazon is pushing to turn its nascent medical-supplies business into a major supplier to U.S. hospitals and outpatient clinics that could compete with...
Read MoreHOW MANY SPINE SURGERIES QUALIFY A SURGEON AS “EXPERIENCED”? (Orthopedics This Week) A group of Boston researchers set out to determine volume benchmarks for the four commons lumbar spine surgeries—discectomy, decompression,...
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TEN BEST NEW SPINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2018 (Orthopedics This Week) Augmedics Winning Technology: xvision™ Inventors and Engineers: Nissan Elimelech, Stuart Wolf, Elazar Gerland, Nessi Benishti, Tsur Herman, Ziv Amitai, Ron...
Shark Tank Meets Spine Start Up VerteCore! TRACEY ROMERO While most of the talk this summer has been about shark sightings and attacks along our beaches and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s race against the great white shark on...
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How medical-device CEOs can navigate digital disruption in healthcare (McKinsey & Company) Medical-device companies will need to reinvent themselves to stay competitive. Now’s the time to craft a strategy and scale a...