The shift to more connected health isn’t showing signs of slowing down, and medtech continues to play a significant role. Especially in the United States, there is still a need for reforms in how healthcare is delivered and paid for to enable more remote delivery of healthcare monitoring and therapies. Nevertheless, the medtech behind connected […]
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Canary Medical wins FDA breakthrough nod for smart spine tech
Canary Medical announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Canturio lumbar cartridge. Canturio LC with the Canary Health Implanted Reporting Processor (CHIRP) works with a lumbar interbody system for lumbar spinal fusion from L1-S1. The company designed it to provide objective kinematic data from an implanted medical device. It collects the […]
Canary Medical has first-in-human implant of heart sound monitor
Canary Medical announced today that it completed the first-in-human limited feasibility trial of its cardiac auscultation monitoring device. Vancouver, British Columbia–based Canary is developing the device as a first-in-class implantable sensor. It provides daily adjunctive objective cardiac parameter measurements. The company believes it could enable patients and clinicians to better manage congestive heart failure symptoms. […]
Canary Medical integrates analytic module with Zimmer Biomet smart knee implant
Canary Medical announced today that it introduced its first orthopedic analytic module: Canary Quantiles recovery curves. Recovery curves utilize movement data measured by Canary Medical’s proprietary implantable Canturio TE tibial extension sensor technology. The sensor technology enables Zimmer Biomet’s Persona IQ smart knee implant. Persona IQ with the Canturio TE tibial extension sensor technology collects […]
Canary Medical taps Edwards Lifesciences veteran as CMO
Canary Medical (Vancouver, British Columbia and Carlsbad, California) has appointed Dr. Patrick Verta as its chief medical officer. Verta was previously VP of medical affairs, clinical science and biometrics at Edwards Lifesciences’ Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies division. Before his seven years at Edwards, he held executive roles at startups Sunshine Heart and Neomend. In […]
Zimmer Biomet, Canary Medical win FDA de novo nod for smart knee implant
Zimmer Biomet (NYSE:ZBH) and Canary Medical announced today that the FDA granted de novo classification for Persona IQ. The de novo grant and marketing authorization comes for the tibial extension for Persona IQ, which the companies tout as the first and only smart knee implant cleared by the FDA for total knee replacement surgery. (Canary […]
Zimmer Biomet is looking to put sensors in more than just knee implants
Even as Zimmer Biomet prepares to launch its Persona-IQ smart knee implant later this year, the ortho device giant is looking at additional opportunities to package sensors inside ortho implants. Startup Canary Medical (Vancouver, British Columbia), which created the Canary Health Implantable Reporting Processor (CHIRP) that is going inside the Persona-IQ, has cemented a long-term […]
DTW #45: Kamen talks 3D organs; Todd Pope returns as CEO; Joe Mulling says medtech’s time is now
Please lift this jam-packed episode with your legs, not your back. We’ll hear inspirational words from the legendary Dean Kamen who is shifting his life’s focus into medtech. WellAir’s Todd Pope takes the CEO seat at a new company built to tackle hospital-acquired-infections and COVID Joe Mullings of the Mullings Group explains why now is […]
Are smart knee implants the next big thing in ortho?
Orthopedic device industry watchers think so, and Zimmer Biomet appears set to be the first out of the gate this year through a partnership with the startup Canary Medical. What do drug-eluting stents and “smart” implantable medical devices have in common? It turns out it’s a lot, at least according to Dr. Bill Hunter. The […]
