Canary Medical Reveals Quantiles Recovery Curves Orthopedic Analytic Platform

Canary Medical has introduced its first orthopedic analytic modules, Canary Quantiles Recovery Curves.
 
Recovery Curves uses movement data measured by the company’s implantable canturio te tibial extension sensor integrated with Zimmer Biomet’s Persona IQ smart knee.
 
Persona IQ with canturio te tibial extension sensor collects activity measures and gait parameters for at least 10 years. By pooling multiple parameters across the Persona IQ patient population, recovery curves provide frequent, objective aggregate population data of each patient’s activity levels and knee kinematics and ranks each patient’s knee performance versus their peers based on age group, gender, and time since surgery.
 
Clinicians can now access and use this daily functional information to determine whether to augment in-office patient examinations and/or update care plans in the year after surgery. According to the company, recovery curves are the first and only monitoring tool available to reproducibly characterize total knee replacement recovery versus objective aggregate population data obtained from identical implantable sensors.
 
“Using recovery curves, I’m seeing my patients more actively engaged in their surgical recovery. With this objective data, they can see and understand their own recovery trajectory as compared to other patients. If they are falling behind, we discuss ways they can potentially improve their recovery,” orthopedic surgeon Dr. John M. Dundon, Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey, told the press. “In the future, I will be able to determine which patients are high risk for complications and poor outcomes many weeks faster than standard care. That information will allow me the opportunity to prevent surgical complications and proactively address patient recovery.”
 
“Canary Medical and Zimmer Biomet take the next step in our shared vision of changing the future of orthopedic post-operative care. Canary Quantiles Recovery Curves are another exciting example of our commitment to providing meaningful data and analysis to surgeons and their patients,” said Bill Hunter, MD, founding member and CEO of Canary Medical. “Improvements in implanted sensors, power and transmission technologies enable more precise measurement and meaningful continuous monitoring to better understand and support patient post-operative care. We will soon expand the use of our implantable Canturio technology to other joints and implants, making Persona IQ the first of many Zimmer Biomet products that will benefit from the data our sensors provide.”
 
Liane Teplitsky, president, Global Robotics and Technology & Data Solutions, Zimmer Biomet, added, “We continue to be excited about utilizing objective patient data to support and personalize care pre-, intra- and post-operatively with Persona IQ. We are working together with Canary to introduce recovery curves to customers in order to better understand how this novel information is being used and displayed prior to full integration with Zimmer Biomet’s mymobility with Apple Watch platform, the primary user interface for Persona IQ data.”
 
Future planned releases of Canary Quantiles include remote patient monitoring.