Emergent Healthcare improves knee replacement recovery with GoProto: 4 insights

Orthopedic

With an estimated 1.5 million people needing total knee replacements in 2020, Emergent Healthcare and GoProto are teaming up develop products to improve recovery time for patients undergoing surgery.

Here are four insights:

 

1. Emergent's Mobaflex uses motion sensors and software to remotely guide and monitor the patient during the recovery period.

 

2. Mobaflex improves outcomes and cost spending by:

 

• Allowing patients to completed physical therapy at home.

• Tracking patients in real time to catch infection or noncompliance within 12 hours post surgery.

• Reducing the number of postoperative surgeon visits from four to one.

 

3. Emergent partnered with GoProto to develop function prototypes, injection tooling and injected molded parts to fit Emergent's specifications.

 

4. Paul Schlumpberger, CEO of Emergent Healthcare, said, "GoProto's experience, total solutions focus, communication and extreme attention to detail were exactly what Emergent needed for the job."

 

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