Here are five things to know:
1. Impellia, co-founded by Mr. Batch, is a sports medicine technology company focused on injury-prevention, human-performance and rehabilitation-focused technology.
2. PIVOT is a software platform developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine.
3. PIVOT non-invasively quantifies the stability of the ACL in the knee and classifies the degree of injury.
4. PIVOT can be used both as a pre-surgical diagnostic tool for orthopedic surgeons and as a tool for physical therapists to monitor patients’ progress during the rehabilitation process.
5. In addition to PIVOT, Impellia signed options for two other Pitt-developed technologies in 2015, with announcements on completed license agreements expected soon.
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