Zimmer Biomet is looking to put sensors in more than just knee implants

May 6, 2021 By Chris Newmarker

Canary Medical Zimmer Biomet Canary Health Implantable Reporting Processor CHIRP smart knee implant

The Canary Health Implantable Reporting Processor (CHIRP) can go inside the tibial extension segment of a commercial knee prostheses, shown here. [Image courtesy of Canary Medical]

Even as Zimmer Biomet prepares to launch its Persona-IQ smart knee implant later this year, the ortho device giant is looking at additional opportunities to package sensors inside ortho implants.

Startup Canary Medical (Vancouver, British Columbia), which created the Canary Health Implantable Reporting Processor (CHIRP) that is going inside the Persona-IQ, has cemented a long-term relationship with Zimmer Biomet to provide proprietary use of the sensor technology for all the areas where ZB is active, ZB CEO Bryan Hanson disclosed during the company’s Q1 earnings call.

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