Navigating uncertain times during COVID-19 This post is written by Armen Bakirtzian, CEO & Cofounder of Intellijoint Surgical and Founder of MIX. “Return to work”, “new normal”, “re-opening amid COVID-19”. These are all exciting yet terrifying phrases that many of us are grappling to understand as we navigate today’s shifting environment and its continuous evolution as […]
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This post is written by Morteza Meftah, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Co-Director of Robotics at NYU Langone. Computer-assisted surgery (CAS) is the way of the future. While the academic community is still completing studies to help determine optimal cuts, or implant position per patient specific type, or deformity, navigation and robotics are
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This post is written by Samantha McCabe, Program Manager, R&D at Intellijoint Surgical and lead engineer during the development of Intellijoint KNEE™. Here she shares the foundational design principles behind its creation. Breaking industry trend, Intellijoint Surgical’s first product was a hip navigation solution. In 2008, Intellijoint Surgical® co-founders identified the lack of navigation platforms
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2018 Waterloo Region MedTech Conference (October 24, 2018) – Intellijoint Surgical is honoured to be awarded the very first Start-Up to Scale-Up Award of Excellence by Waterloo MedTech at the 2018 Waterloo Region MedTech Conference. This award recognizes Intellijoint Surgical’s success of growing from a fourth-year engineering design project to a scale-up medical technology company in full commercialization mode globally. Agfa
KITCHENER, ON, Jan. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Medical Innovation Xchange (MIX), Canada’s first industry-led hub for medtech startups, celebrated its official launch and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, January 10, 2020 at its Kitchener headquarters. Mr. Simon Kennedy, Deputy Minister, Innovation, Science & Economic Development provided the keynote address on what infrastructure is required to help retain and
November 7, 2019 (Waterloo, ON) — Today, Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ program announced its 2019 award recipients ranking Intellijoint Surgical® as 2nd for its rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit and bold innovation. The program recognizes Canada’s 50 fastest-growing technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the past four years. Intellijoint Surgical made this prestigious list
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September 12, 2019 (Waterloo, ON) – Today, Canadian Business and Maclean’s ranked Intellijoint Surgical®13th on the 2019 Startup 50 ranking of Canada’s Top New Growth Companies. Serving as a companion list to the longstanding Growth 500 ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies and produced by Canada’s premier business and current affairs media brands, the Startup 50
June 13, 2019 (KITCHENER, Ont.) – Intellijoint Surgical, a Waterloo Region-based medical device company manufacturing and commercializing smart navigation for total joint replacements, leads the creation of Canada’s first industry-led hub dedicated to supporting southern Ontario medtech start-ups achieve global scale while keeping their headquarters in Waterloo Region. Opening this month, MIX– Medical Innovation Xchange – will
May 9, 2019 (WATERLOO, ON) – Intellijoint Surgical®, a Canadian-based medtech company that develops and commercializes surgical navigation for total joint replacements, announces its flagship product, Intellijoint HIP®, has achieved a major milestone of 10,000 total hip replacements (THR)! In 2016, Intellijoint HIP was commercialized in select cities in the United States through a limited market release. Since launch,
