Emerging Technology Reports

The Emerging Technology Report provides regular updates about emerging and potentially disruptive technologies that are likely to have a significant impact in healthcare. This “early warning” report monitors new health technologies from 6 months to 2 years within a regulatory submission and tracks those as they go through clinical trial development and the regulatory approval process.

For each emerging technology, our analysts describe the technology and intended use, its prospects relative to the regulatory process and FDA information, competing technologies, relevant clinical guidelines, high-level look at the evidence such as published abstracts in the medical literature and available meeting abstracts, and available clinical trials.

UroLift System

Permanent prostatic urethral lift implants to relieve blocked urine flow in men age 50 and older with benign prostatic hypertrophy.

Dominion Vi Scanner (DViS)

A mobile “O-arm” for real-time 3-dimensional imaging with potential applications in critical care, trauma and emergency, orthopedic, image-guided, and interventional imaging.  

MAKOplasty Total Hip Arthroplasty

A preoperative 3-dimensional image reconstruction system with a surgeon-interactive robotic arm used to assist in planning and placing the joint implant during total hip arthroplasty. 

MAKOplasty Partial Knee Resurfacing

A preoperative 3-dimensional image reconstruction system with a surgeon-interactive robotic arm used to assist in planning and performing partial knee resurfacing.