From acquisitions to partnerships, here are six key updates from spine devicemakers since Sept. 18.
1. Avicenna.AI, a medical imaging AI company, has earned FDA clearance for its CINA-CSpine tool, designed to support the detection of cervical spine fractures from CT images.
2. Stryker completed its acquisition of Nico Corp., a company focused on minimally invasive tumor and intracerebral hemorrhage procedures.
3. Xtant Medical launched the Cortera posterior fixation system.
4. OrtoWay earned a U.S. patent for the OrtoWell distractor system for spinal corpectomy.
5. Nevro earned FDA approval and began a limited market release of its HFX iQ spinal cord stimulator with HFX AdaptivAI.
6. Medtronic is partnering with Siemens Healthineers to co-market the Siemens Healthineers Multitom Rax imaging system.