Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and Zimmer Biomet have teamed up to offer HSS’ proprietary Orthopedic Care Pathways on Zimmer Biomet’s mymobility with Apple Watch, a first-of-its-kind remote care management platform.
Meant to benefit patients, clinicians and healthcare systems, this agreement will further implement HSS’ Orthopedic Care Pathways via mymobility with Apple Watch platform. According to HSS, this combination will deliver to patients and their caregivers never-before-seen levels of mobility metrics and outcomes data.
The HSS Orthopedic Care Pathways on mymobility with Apple Watch will be launched in the U.S. in early 2021 with global availability through Zimmer Biomet coming soon thereafter.
OTW asked Leonard Achan, president of HSS Innovation Institute what aspect of the collaboration he finds most exciting: “The most exciting aspect of our partnership with Zimmer Biomet on mymobility with Apple Watch is and will be the ability to impact patient lives by bringing innovative technologies, clinical insight, and HSS care to our patients all over the country.”
“The impact of HSS expertise will be felt by hundreds of organizations across the nation via this partnership to take advantage of our clinical pathways and lessons learned as the #1 orthopedic provider in the world. Our impact will be greatly felt by patients and clinicians alike and this unique solution will allow us to reach even more people than we thought possible at HSS alone. I’m excited about being part of a team partnered with industry to help thousands move better and look forward to more that we can do with Zimmer Biomet and Apple as we grow our relationship even further.”
Zimmer Biomet Group President for Global Business and the Americas Ivan Tornos explained to OTW the unique aspects of mymobility and the benefit of being able to operate on the Apple Watch platform: “Zimmer Biomet launched mymobility with Apple Watch nearly two years ago. The mymobility platform was built by Zimmer Biomet in collaboration with the Health team at Apple.”
“mymobility uses Apple Watch to facilitate a first-of-its kind level of connection between patients and their surgeons to improve the patient surgical journey across the entire episode of care, while also delivering continuous data to surgeons so they can optimize care and outcomes. The remote care management system increases personalized connections between patients and HCPs [healthcare providers], creating more connection, better communications touchpoints, greater efficiency and to facilitate patient outcomes without adding the burden to the healthcare system.”
Personalized, Thoughtful Patient Level Experience
Tornos went on to describe how Apple and the Zimmer team built patient friendly interfaces. “mymobility with Apple Watch brings all the key elements of care together in a way that can provide increased access and ease of connection between the patient and their care team before and after surgery. Patients gain control because they know exactly what to do and when to do it and are alerted if they are veering off track. For example, instead of receiving a large and sometimes confusing book of information to prepare for surgery, patients can have information pushed to them at the right time in their pre- and post-op care.”
“On average, the patient journey has limited patient and provider touchpoints—often with 10 minutes or less spent with their surgeon. With mymobility with Apple Watch, patients and their surgical care teams are constantly connected with the opportunity for virtual touchpoints when needed. Additionally, patients receive reminders, progress reports, exercise tutorials and the ability to send videos, pictures and/or encrypted text messages to the care team without the need for a physical appointment. It’s a personalized way to keep patients moving and keep them connected with their surgeons and care teams like never before.”
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