The lines between traditional medtech and digital healthcare continue to blur, and a perfect example of this trend is Zimmer Biomet’s Persona IQ smart knee implant, which is now FDA cleared. According to the company, the device is considered the first “smart” knee implant on the market for total knee replacement surgery.
Persona IQ records and wirelessly transmits a wide range of gait data to a patient’s personal base station at home. The data are then securely delivered to a cloud-based platform. Surgeons can assess post-surgery recovery progress by comparing pre-operative mobility metrics captured by mymobility, with post-operative gait metrics collected by Persona IQ.
This technology was presented at ISTA’s Emerging Technologies in Arthroplasty™ meeting May 15th, 2021. View Dr Fred Cushner’s presentation here