News and Notes

Exactech, a developer and producer of innovative implants, instrumentation and smart technologies for joint replacement surgery, has announced the first ankle replacement procedure using the Vantage® Ankle PSI, patient-specific surgical planning and 3D-printed instruments.

Censis Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortive Corporation, and Cantel Medical Corp. announced a new long-term partnership to combine Cantel’s leading infection prevention endoscope reprocessing workflow portfolio with the surgical asset management and instrument tracking solutions from Censis.

Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM) continues to focus on producing its line of narrow woven structural tapes and elastics, as well as safety webbing, to protect front-line workers responding to the current global health crisis.

FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc.- a leading provider of endoscopic imaging solutions, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted its Breakthrough Device Designation— reserved for medical devices that provide for more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions— for Fujifilm’s new, in-development, endoscopic light and image processing technology.

Medline has announced that it is on track to complete prime vendor implementations worth over $1 billion in supplies sales at more than 40 health systems since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March. This comes on top of $2.5 billion in new partnerships implemented in 2018 and 2019.

CapsoVision, Inc., an innovator in the gastroenterology diagnostics market and manufacturer of the CapsoCam Plus capsule endoscope, has achieved the International Standard Organization (ISO) 27001 security certification.