Smart Orthopedic Implants
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
In orthopedics’ next generation, start-ups believe it will be advances in information, gathered by implanted sensors, that will yield the greatest improvements in outcomes, not hardware. We profile OrthoData and Ortho-tag.
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OrthoData Inc.
Surgeons would like to know, sooner, rather than later, whether there’s progress toward fusion following spinal fusions. That’s the mission of OrthoData Inc., which is developing an implantable, wireless, microelectronic spine fusion sensor that measures load on the implanted hardware to reveal the fusion status of patients sooner than plain X-rays.
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There are times when joint replacement patients and their treating physicians need to quickly identify what kind of orthopedic device has been implanted, but the information isn’t always easy to find. Ortho-tag Inc. aims to change that with a tag that turns orthopedic implants into devices capable of communicating important information to treating physicians directly from the patient.