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Battery technologies improvements are minimizing the cartridge size in smart ortho implants.

25 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Smart orthopedic implants can monitor patients for 20 years by transmitting data just once daily. Battery capacity doubles roughly every three years. The new compact Persona Stem implant holds more power than the older model despite its smaller size and recently won FDA approval.

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if we transmitted in real time like your iWatch, we'd be out of power in a couple days. But because we just transmit once a day, we can make this thing last for 20 years. Since we first talked, there's almost like Moore's Law is happening in batteries. About every 3 years, the power of batteries doubles. And so we launched this, which is the stubby version of the Persona Stem, last week. And this actually has more power than this one does, and we can get 20 years of patient monitoring. Off of this. So this is now approved by the FDA. So this is 3-year-old technology. So this is where we are now.