ODT’s Most-Read Stories This Week—July 16

Partnerships and purchases were top traffic generators this past week on ODT’s website.

Smith+Nephew, Orthofix, and LimaCorporate all announced collaborations, while Enovis and Acumed publicized their recent acquisitions. 

Smith+Nephew began a partnership with Rods&Cones to provide smart surgery glasses and digital remote assistance to customers. With smart surgery glasses, Smith+Nephew can “see” through the eyes of a surgeon, instrumentalist nurse, or any healthcare professional using them. This enables continuous remote support before, during, and after interventions. The MIS (minimally invasive surgery) Kit connects to a secure Rods&Cones remote expert interface so the user can follow and attend surgeries as if standing in the operating room, but with the same view of the surgeon or other clinician. 

Orthofix and LimaCorporate, in the meantime began a licensing partnership for the U.S. market to provide a solution for chronic high dislocation of the hip. The limb-lengthening technology of Orthofix’s Fitbone intramedullary nail system will be combined with LimaCorporate’s 3D-printed pelvic fixation device. Once implanted, the devices work together to help surgeons distract the femur to an anatomically correct position and correct the leg-length discrepancy. This reduces strain on the spine and allows for a total hip replacement to follow.

Enovis rallied online readers with its purchase of orthopedic surgical guidance firm Insight Medical Systems, whose FDA-cleared ARVIS augmented reality (AR) solution is engineered for hip and knee replacement surgery. Acumed drummed up traffic as well with its deal for ExsoMed, a hand surgery solutions provider. Acumed executives said the acquisition enhances the company’s portfolio of upper extremity solutions for simple to complex injuries. ExsoMed’s products support an intramedullary approach to treating hand fractures.

Also of interest to cybervisitors last week was an exclusive contribution from Proprioo co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Samuel Browd, who explained the revolutionary potential of light field technology. “The use of light field technology has the potential to take medicine to a new level and to radically change surgery allowing for computer vision, machine learning and big data to finally arrive in a meaningful way in surgery,” he wrote in an exclusive online posting.

1. Smith+Nephew Begins Partnership for Smart Glasses in the OR

2. Radically Improving Medicine and Surgery With Light Field Technology

3. Orthofix, LimaCorporate Start Partnership for High Hip Dislocation

4. Enovis Buys Insight Medical Systems, a Surgical Guidance Firm

5. Acumed Acquires Exsomed