Author: Claire Wallace

WellSpan has broken ground on a 243,000-square-foot sports complex in York, Pa., according to a Sept. 12 report from the York Dispatch.

Palm Beach Gardens (Fla.) Medical Center has surpassed 100 orthopedic cases using Zimmer Biomet's Rosa robotic knee system, according to a Sept. 12 report from South Florida Hospital News. 

 The Hamilton, N.Y.-based Community Memorial Center for Orthopedics has opened a new office in New Hartford, N.Y., in the CNY Brain and Spine building.

Here are seven orthopedic and spine devicemakers that have raised series A and series C funding this year, totaling $283.5 million: 

On average, physicians spend 5.8 hours working on EHRs for every eight hours they are treating patients; but for some specialties, including orthopedics, that number is a lot lower, according to a Sept. 11 report from the American Medical Association. 

Stryker has introduced two new products, the Osteotomy Truss System and Ankle Truss System, to its foot and ankle portfolio. 

Carson City-based University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Carson Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has added orthopedic surgeons Jamie Furness, MD, and Paull Cameron Gossett, MD. 

3D Systems has earned FDA clearance for its Total Ankle Patient-Matched Guides, which can be used with Smith+Nephew’s Salto Tarlaris total ankle prosthesis and Cadence total ankle system.

BoulderCentre for Orthopedics & Spine has added two orthopedic surgeons and a nonsurgical spine and sports medicine specialist. 

Orthopedic surgeon Lindley Wall, MD, has been installed as the inaugural Jacqueline N. Baker and W. Randolph Baker professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.