SmartTRAK was cited once again as a trusted source for data in a press release from Smith & Nephew entitled "Smith & Nephew meniscal knee repair technology delivers 0% re-operation rate and 100% meniscal healing at six months shows first ever study of horizontal cleavage tears".

Robotic-assisted surgery was a hot topic of discussion at this year’s ODT Forum. SmartTRAK Senior Analyst for Computer-Assisted Surgery, Elise Wolf, participated in a panel discussion entitled “Tech Talk: An Overview of the Growing Role of Additive Manufacturing and Robotic Surgery,” along with Mitch Foster, CEO of Mindset Medical and former CEO and Co-Founder of Excelsius Surgical. The session was moderated by Dawn Lissy, President & Founder of Empirical Testing.

The discussion focused on current market dynamics and future directions in robotic platforms and other enabling technologies in orthopedic and spine surgery. An excerpt of the panel discussion is provided below.

SmartTRAK is excited to be attending the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 16th Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida from July 22-25, 2019. Anne Staylor, Managing Editor, Business Intelligence and Senior Director, Advanced Technologies will be covering the latest news at the conference, and will be providing updates on key studies, trends, and technologies affecting the market for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke devices. 

BioMedGPS, developer of SmartTRAK Business Intelligence, has been recognized by the Orange County Business Journal (OCBJ) as one of the largest women-owned firms in Orange County, CA.

SmartTRAK identifies trends to watch in Spine

By most accounts, the Spine market has stabilized with modest low single-digit growth expected this year. Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak agrees that the Spine market seems to have stabilized and is starting to inch back up. However, he suggests that it is still slower than a year or two ago as price declines are now offsetting procedure growth, resulting in flat to low single-digit to growth. For 2019, Needham analysts are modeling 2% spine market growth with overall orthopedic market growth of 3.4%.

New strategic alliance expands SmartTRAK market research capabilities

BioMedGPS, developer of SmartTRAK Business Intelligence, is excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Quomeda, a widely respected international healthcare research consultancy firm located in the UK.  Through this new alliance, SmartTRAK has expanded its suite of strategic advisory services globally to include custom consulting as well as provider, hospital and procedural volume data.

SmartTRAK hosted a tour, dinner reception and briefing at Gothenburg's Universeum before EWMA 2019. Attendees were treated to a private tour of the Universeum and the Ocean Zone prior to dinner and the briefing, entitled Trends, Opportunities and Innovations in Advanced Wound Care, with a special focus on the European market.

OrthogenRx CEO & Founder Michael Daley talks about the Company’s new 3-injection HA product, TriVisc and what will come next.

Michael Daley, CEO & Founder of OrthogenRx, a US medical device company focused on treatments for musculoskeletal conditions, talked about TriVisc, the Company’s new 3-injection hyaluronic acid (HA) product for knee osteoarthritis, as well as the future at OrthogenRx, in an interview with SmartTRAK at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 2019 Annual Meeting held March 12-14, 2019 in Las Vegas, NV.

What is the rational for OrthogenRx to bring TriVisc now to a very crowded 3-injection HA segment?

To have a presence in the entire US HA market, OrthogenRx aims to provide...

Elise Wolf, SmartTRAK's Senior Analyst, Computer Assisted Surgery, will be representing SmartTRAK at CAOS International 2019, the 19th Annual Meeting of the  International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, to be held in New York, June 19-22 at the Midtown Hilton.

Elise, with bachelor's and master's degrees in bioengineering, designed biologically inspired robots for the Department of Defense at a spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University. After robotics, she transitioned to the medical device industry and has more than 15 years of experience in product development, marketing, and business development consulting in emerging medical device technologies and orthopedics. Elise has worked with BioMedGPS since 2009 as a SmartTRAK Senior Analyst covering orthopedics and Computer-Assisted Surgery.

You can view Elise's intro video below...

Frederique Buntoum (aka Freddy), SmartTRAK's Senior Analyst, Regenerative Medicine, overseeing the Cell Processing, Amniotic Tissue and Joint Fluid modules, will be representing SmartTRAK at TOBI 2019, the Tenth Annual PRP & Regenerative Medicine Symposium in Chicago, IL, June 6-8. 

You can view Freddy's intro video below...