Collaboration Aims to Track Medical Device Performance, Patient Outcomes

The American Joint Replacement Registry and InVivoLink will collaborate on technology that automates the feed of orthopedic implant data to the AJRR's registry platform, according to an InVivoLink news release.

 

The direct link between InVivoLink's registry data acquisition tools and the AJRR is intended to facilitate a nationwide orthopedic implant registry project to monitor medical device performance and improve patient outcomes. Specifically, the two groups will provide data to support evidence-based medicine, identify patients at risk for poor outcomes, improve the tracking of complication rates and enhance management of device recalls.

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