Getting an orthopedic practice to adopt AI isn’t a technology problem — it’s a trust problem, according to John Bring, vice president of clinical innovation and performance at Omaha, Neb.-based Sequel ...

Medtech company Stryker has commercially launched the Mako Robotic Power System for total knee replacement procedures. The handheld, robotic-assisted system is compatible with Stryker’s Triathlon ...

An operation can go exactly as planned and still become a bad surgical episode. The patient leaves the hospital, then falls at home. Pain or swelling sends them to the emergency department. A ...

A proposed Medicare rule could cut physician reimbursement for total hip and knee replacement procedures by 20% in 2027, the OrthoForum warned. The alliance represents 96 independent orthopedic ...

Medtronic has completed its acquisition of SPR Therapeutics, a pain management medtech company, for $650 million.  SPR Therapeutics develops percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation therapies for ...

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.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Memorial Hospital hosted the first U.S. surgery using Signus USA’s VertaConnect spinal implant system. The procedure was performed July 3 by spinal surgeon Ngoc-Lam Nguyen, MD. The VertaConnect system ...

The next major failure in spine care may not begin in the operating room. It could begin when a patient in a smaller market cannot find a surgeon nearby. It could deepen when an insurer delays imaging ...

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’ ...