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Patient pushback on smart TKR implants is rare - Dr Bill Hunter @canarymedical9141

25 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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Dr. Bill Hunter discusses using data from smart knee implants to measure surgical quality. Most patients regain function between weeks 3 and 9 after surgery, and patient pushback on the technology is rare, making it viable for hospitals and insurers to benchmark performance.

Is anybody talking to you about using this as a flat-out quality measure?
Yeah, for sure.
Like, just, I mean, like for insurance or an ambulatory surgery center that, or, I mean, or the orthopedic groups to say we do it better and saying this is a way we can prove it.
Well, without question, there's two things I can tell you for sure. One is that different docs have different recovery curves, but we're starting to compare those because it's like, hey, your patients do well re— at the beginning, really, really well. So what are you doing that I'm not doing? And by the way, your patients seem to do really well on week 3 to week 8. What I can tell you is that a lot of TKA happens between week 3 and week 9.