Lewisville, Texas-based Orthofix Medical Inc. has won the “Best Patient Experience Solution” award in the 2024 MedTech Breakthrough Awards program.
Patient Compliance App Receives MedTech Breakthrough Award
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Orthofix was recognized for its STIM onTrack™ mobile app. After a fracture injury, lumbar fusion, or cervical fusion, the STIM onTrack mobile app can track patient compliance data. The data comes from a prescribed bone growth therapy device.
Jason Shallenberger, president of bone growth therapies at Orthofix, told OTW: “We are extremely honored to be recognized for the second year in a row as a winner of the Medtech Awards—this year for Best Patient Experience Solution.”
Shallenberger continued, “Orthofix was the first company in this space to recognize the importance of patient engagement in their own recovery by utilizing our STIM onTrack app. This allows patients to report a variety of information back to their physician such as pain scores and treatment compliance among other things.”
According to the company, the mobile app “provides a hyper-targeted experience that addresses unique patient needs related to bone healing.” It works with the “latest generation CervicalStim™, SpinalStim™, and PhysioStim™ bone growth therapy devices.”
App features dedicated to helping patients maintain their treatment schedules include treatment reminders and device usage calendars. Patients are also able to use the app to transmit important data to their physicians to help with remote patient monitoring. Patients can also access links to educational resources through the app.
MedTech Breakthrough is part of Tech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization. The MedTech Breakthrough Awards program is an annual program that, per its website, “recognizes the ‘BREAK THROUGH’ companies, people, platforms and products in the health, fitness and medical technology industries today.” It covers a range of categories including the following: clinical and health administration; patient engagement; electronic health records; internet-of-things (IoT) healthcare; medical data; health and fitness; mobile communications and telehealth; medical device; healthcare cybersecurity; and industry leadership.
This year is the eighth year of the awards program. Thousands of nominations were submitted to the program from more than 18 different countries.
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This is a fascinating development. In my practice we've seen similar outcomes with the revised protocol. The key differentiator seems to be patient selection criteria. Has anyone else noticed the correlation with BMI thresholds?
Great point. I'd push back slightly on the conclusion, the sample size in the cited study is too small to draw population-level inferences. That said, the directional signal is compelling and worth a larger RCT.
We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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