Zimmer Biomet Acquires RespondWell Telerehabilitation Platform

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc. today announced the acquisition of RespondWell, an award-winning telerehabilitation technology designed to provide personalized, clinician-supervised post-surgical physical therapy in the comfort of a patient’s home. The acquisition strengthens the Company’s recently announced Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions commercial offering by integrating a comprehensive, at-home telerehabilitation capability designed to enhance patient compliance with physical therapy and improve the quality of recovery.
 
“The new value-based reimbursement environment compels hospitals and providers to assume responsibility for patient outcomes well after discharge and through the critical rehabilitation period,” said David Nolan, Group President, Biologics, Extremities, Sports Medicine, Surgical, Trauma, Foot and Ankle and Office Based Technologies. “Integrating an innovative and comprehensive telerehabilitation program into our Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions offering addresses the emerging need for healthcare providers to oversee and optimize post-surgical recovery outcomes in order to maximize value across the entire episode of care.”
 
“I believe RespondWell’s innovative telerehabilitation platform will help our clinical care team enhance the quality and outcomes of post-op patient care by providing an interactive and motivating physical therapy experience that encourages patient engagement and compliance to physical therapy in a convenient environment, the patient’s home,” said Ronald A. Navarro, M.D., Regional Coordinating Chief of Orthopedic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente.
 
Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions is a strategically curated suite of technologies and services designed to help hospitals and providers streamline delivery of care and succeed in today’s value-based reimbursement environment. The Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions remote rehabilitation platform, known as Therapy@Home, features a personalized rehabilitation plan designed by a patient’s clinical care team, video-gaming-style exercise system with on-screen digital instructors to coach and encourage patients, and built-in reward features earned through increased patient participation and consistency. The system also allows the patient’s clinical care team to remotely monitor patient progress and activity and digitally communicate with the patient, potentially reducing the costs associated with follow-up visits and clinic-based rehabilitation programs. Zimmer Biomet is currently launching research partnerships for the Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions suite at selected academic research institutions in the U.S., with a broader commercial release scheduled for 2017.
 
“Telerehabilitation represents the future of optimal and efficient post-surgical patient care, and we are excited to integrate our remote rehabilitation platform into the Zimmer Biomet Signature Solutions suite,” said Ted Spooner, Co-founder and CEO of RespondWell.