MedEdge Holdings has named Craig Gaffin, former president of Smith+Nephew’s approximately $2 billion global orthopedics business, as partner, the Greenwich, Conn.-based surgical technology platform said in a July 16 news release shared with Becker’s. Mr. Gaffin brings more than 25…
The Latest
The Health Care Transformation Task Force released a case study on a value-based musculoskeletal care model developed by Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, Health Alliance Plan by Henry Ford Health and Protera Health, an independent digital health company. The model improved…
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences cut the ribbon on an orthopedic and sports medicine practice in Little Rock, Ark. The new clinic is the organization’s largest in Arkansas, totaling 32,700 square feet, and combines two previous locations in…
Aurora Spine and CornerLoc formed a strategic commercial alliance to expand physician access to minimally invasive spine and sacroiliac joint technologies across the U.S. The partnership combines Aurora Spine’s portfolio of minimally invasive spine technologies, manufacturing capabilities and regulatory resources…
Orthopedic medtech company DePuy Synthes acquired Expanding Innovations, a developer of expandable implants for spine surgery, expanding its position in the growing expandable interbody cage market. Expanding Innovations’ portfolio includes its X-PAC expandable interbody cages for transforaminal and lateral lumbar…
Gabriele Jasper, MD, founder of the Jasper Spine Institute in Brick Township, N.J., died in a plane crash July 13 in upstate New York. He was 70, according to a July 15 Jersey Shore Online report. Dr. Jasper was piloting…
Cleveland Clinic will incorporate a neurological assessment center into its new Neurological Institute building, scheduled to open in early 2027, to collect standardized measures of patients’ neurological function during routine outpatient visits. The center will use markerless motion capture, manual…
Medical device company Biotronik Neuro has acquired a portfolio of intellectual property related to spinal cord stimulation from Soin Neuroscience. The patents include technologies in spinal cord stimulation waveform design, adaptive programming, and the application of machine learning and AI…
The House Committee on Ways and Means unanimously advanced bipartisan legislation July 15 that would modernize prior authorization requirements in Medicare Advantage, a measure backed by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The Improving Seniors’…
Provect AI, a medical imaging company, received FDA 510(k) clearance for software that converts standard C-arm X-rays into intraoperative 3D images, allowing spine and orthopedic surgeons to generate CT-like imaging without a CT scanner. The software, called 3D-Anywhere, is designed…