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Orthocare Innovations Receives Prestigious R&D 100 Award for Galileo

Journal Record
July 28, 2010
Oklahoma City - Orthocare Innovations of Oklahoma City has been selected for the second consecutive year to receive a R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine.  Orthocare Innovations received the award for its Galileo system for measuring, analyzing and reporting the function of patients who hav...

Orthocare Innovations to Receive R&D 100 Award for Galileo System

OandP.com
July 14, 2010
  Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been selected to receive R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 award for its Galileo™ system, an instrument that provides clinicians with measurable, objective data to assess the function of persons who utilize prosthetic o...

Orthocare Hires Two Clinical Services Members

O&P Business News
July 01, 2010
Orthocare Innovations announced the addition of two new clinical services staff members:  Micheal Orendurff, MS, as director of activity monitoring and outcomes services; and Courtney Moran, CP, MS, as clinical services manager.Orendurff is an internationally recognized thought leader and publi...

David Adams Joins Orthocare

OandP.com
June 11, 2010
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has named David Adams as general manager of its Oklahoma City facility. Adams joins Orthocare from Trulife North America, Poulsbo, Washington, where he served as vice president of product development. Adams brings more than 14 years of experience in th...

Orthocare, Tibion, Win Medical-Device Awards

O&P Edge
June 03, 2010
Two O&P companies have garnered top awards in Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) magazine's 13th annual Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition.  Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was honored for its Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System (Compas™...

Suzie Williams Joins Orthocare Innovations

oandP.com
April 29, 2010
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has appointed Suzie Williams, CP, as its clinical services manager. Williams joins Orthocare from Ossur Americas, Foothill Ranch, California, where she served as regional clinical manager. Williams received her bachelor of science degree from Central M...

Orthocare Wins Medical-Device Awards

OandP.com
April 27, 2010
Two O&P companies have garnered top awards in Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) magazine’s 13th annual Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition. Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was honored for its Computerized Prosthesis Alignment ...

The Compas Leads the Way

Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry
April 20, 2010
Seven million data points sounds like a lot of information to gather. But Orthocare Innovations (Oklahoma City, OK), which manufactured the Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System (Compas), knew it would take work to remove the guesswork from lower-extremity prosthesis fittings. The company obtaine...

Kobayashi Joins Orthocare

OandP.com
April 14, 2010
  Oklahoma City, OK, April 14, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Toshiki Kobayashi as Research Scientist.  Dr. Kobayashi, one of an extremely elite group of orthotists worldwide that has also received a doctorate in engineering, will b...

Orthocare Signs SPS as Domestic Distribution Partner

O&P Edge
March 10, 2010
  Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has entered into an exclusive domestic distributor agreement with SPS, Alpharetta, Georgia. The distribution relationship will focus on Orthocare’s pipeline of prosthetic and orthotic devices, beginning with the Smart Pyramid, the Compa...

Oklahoma's BIOTECH Landscape

Engage Oklahoma
March 01, 2010
Landing a coveted spot in R&D magazine's annual list of 100 revolutionary technologies newly introduced to the market is a big deal. Really big.In 2009, Oklahoma City-based Orthocare Innovations, a medical research and product development company that commercializes advanced technologies for the...

Orthocare Innovations Receives Equity Investment

O&P Edge
March 01, 2010
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has received a significant equity investment from Schooner Capital, Boston, a private investment group.  The investment was made in support of the commercial launch of Orthocare's new product pipeline.  Terms of the transaction were not discl...

Prosthetics 2020 Conference Develops National Research and Clinical Agenda

O&P Edge
January 19, 2010
In the sprawling landscape of American prosthetics, with its multiple professional organizations, research bodies, and accreditation groups, there are thousands of points of interest, but few clear roads toward the future that could bring the most benefit to the patient and the profession. On ...

Re-Learning Life: Rehabilitation Technologies are Key to Recovery

Medical Design Briefs
January 19, 2010
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than 700,000 people in the U.S. suffer a stroke each year, and approximately two-thirds of these individuals survive and require rehabilitation to re-learn skills that are lost when part of the brain is damaged.  For example, these sk...

Bionics

National Geographic
January 02, 2010
bi-on-ics Etymology: from bi (as in “life”) + onics (as in “electronics”); the study of mechanical systems that function like living organisms or parts of living organisms By Josh Fischman Photograph by Mark Thiessen Amanda Kitts is mobbed by four- and five-year-olds ...

The Future of Physical Restoration

O&P Edge
January 01, 2010
As a nation and as a field, we have not developed a strong, sustainable prosthetics research framework, nor sufficiently transitioned the results of recent research into tangible results that impact patients' daily lives. The window of attention and resources for prosthetics created by the wars in...

Fitting Prosthetic Limbs, Via a Computer

New York Times Newspaper
December 20, 2009
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Armed for the Future: DARPA's 'Revolutionizing Prosthetics' Project Nears Completion

O&P Edge
December 14, 2009
In an exclusive interview with The O&P EDGE, Stuart Harshbarger discusses how the end game is shaping up for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Program. As this issue of The O&P EDGE goes to press, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DA...

Prosthetics Leaders Plot Future

The Journal Record
October 29, 2009
  Prosthetics leaders from across the world are meeting in Oklahoma City this week to bridge a gap between early-stage development and commercialization of new prosthetic devices. Such an action plan has been missing in the field, said Doug McCormack, chief executive officer of Orthocare In...

Alignment Systems Step Forward

O&P Edge
October 21, 2009
Any prosthetist will tell you that a successfully fitted prosthesis depends, in part, on achieving the proper alignment. And yet learning to make alignment adjustments through observational gait analysis—not to mention becoming comfortably proficient at it—is no easy task. Not only doe...

Orthocare Innovations: Changing the Game

O&P Edge
October 21, 2009
If you follow O&P news, you've probably heard of Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Through a complex progression of acquisitions, ambitious hiring, and cooperative agreements—plus some native expertise in politics and fund-wrangling—Orthocare is on course to become a ...

Compas™ Selected by R&D Magazine as 2009 R&D 100 Award Winner

R&D 100
October 20, 2009
  The reality of accidents, warfare, and genetics means that in the U.S., there are about a million people in need of prosthetics. About 100,000 new prosthetics are made each year, each of them modified slightly to accommodate each patient. But despite the use of lightweig...

Prosthetic Research and Production Boosts Technology Industry

OKC BIZ
August 25, 2009
Orthocare Innovations aims to make Oklahoma City the top hot spot for research, development and production of high-end, sophisticated prosthetic research. In a time when the economy is throwing other industries down, the tech industry in Oklahoma seems to be holding strong. In July, Orthocare Inn...

Orthocare Innovations Awarded $415k Incentive Package from OKC Council

The Journal Record
August 06, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma City Council members voted to give $415,000 to Orthocare Innovations LLC to help expand the company's facilities and create jobs. But at least one council member said he would rather pay for such economic incentives after a company delivers on its development promises inst...

Paralympian Joins Orthocare Innovations as National Sales Manager

O&P Edge
August 04, 2009
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has appointed Jim Lagerstrom, CP, as national salesmanager. Lagerstrom has fifteen years of sales experience in O&P with positions at Becker Orthopedic, Troy, Michigan; Century XXII Innovations (now a subsidiary of Ossur, Reykjavic, Iceland), ...

Orthocare Innovations Receives R&D Magazine Award

The Journal Record
July 22, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - Orthocare Innovations of Oklahoma City has been selected by R&D Magazine to receive the 2009 R&D 100 Award for its Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System, or Compas. The Compas technology asists practitioners in achieving optimal alignment and analysis using embedded sen...

Orthocare Innovations Receives R&D Magazine Award

The Oklahoman
July 22, 2009
  Orthocare Innovations has been selected by R&D Magazine to recieve the 2009 R&D 100 Award for its computerized prosthesis alignment system Compas. The medical device research and product development company, which moved its headquarters to Oklahoma City this year, created the prod...

Orthocare Innovations Brings Prosthetics R&D, Manufacturing to Oklahoma

i2E
July 17, 2009
November as they pitched a proposal for $1.6 million in funding from the state's $150 million EDGE Endowment fund. Standing behind a podium in a board room of the Presbyterian Health Foundation Research Park Conference Center, the Orthocare Innovation's executives pledged to establish the comp...

Orthocare Innovations Tapped for $8M Defense Tech Center

O&P Edge
July 10, 2009
Doug McCormack, Orthocare Innovations' CEO. Photograph courtesy of Orthocare Innovations. The National Defense Authorization Act for the 2010 fiscal year includes a line item that could lead to a great leap forward in O&P technology: $8 million for a proposed military-to...

Walking Devices Made in Oklahoma City to Improve Prosthetics Performance

The Oklahoman
July 09, 2009
Walking devices to improve prosthetics' PERFORMANCE BY DEBBIE BLOSSOM Days after moving into new offices in the Presbyterian Health Foundation Research Park, officials with Orthocare Innovations introduced two devices designed to help amputees walk better. What's more, they will be manufactured ...

Orthocare Innovations Initiates Compas™ Production in Oklahoma City

Associated Press
July 08, 2009
click here to watch the video By TIM TALLEY OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A computer programmed with prosthetic alignment technology squeaked and chimed Wednesday as Michael Varro, an employee with the Department of Veterans Affairs, walked across a room on his prosthetic right leg. The computer w...

An Energized Approach to Growth

Site Selection
July 07, 2009
Two ingredients essential to life - air and health - propel the Oklahoma economy. by Ron Starner Flipping on the light switch suddenly carries new meaning in Oklahoma. Led by exploration, research and development, and new project activity in wind, natural gas, petroleum, nitrogen, and lithium-io...

The Next Challenge in Prosthetics

Rehab Management
July 07, 2009
Setting a new course for prosthesis alignment.   David Boone, CP, MPH, PhD by David Boone, CP, MPH, PhD Almost every facet of lower limb prostheses construction has changed in the past decade. Fit and form have evolved to incorporate new materials into novel socket conto...

Orthocare Innovations Step Closer to Tapping into Defense Fund

The Journal Record
June 30, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - Early this year Orthocare Innovations LLC of Oklahoma City formed an alliance to seek U.S. Defense Department funds for prosthetic research, manufacturing and commercialization. The company is now a step closer to tapping into defense funding, Doug McCormack, CEO, said on Monday. ...

Military Funds to Promote Prosthetics in Oklahoma

The Oklahoman
June 28, 2009
Eight million dollars of a $10 million request was approved to create an Oklahoma City prosthetics technology center. Orthocare Innovations, in a partnership with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, has approved $8 million from the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act to cr...

Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Join Orthocare Innovations

O&P Edge
June 03, 2009
Stuart Harshbarger, PhD Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma has appointed to its staff two researchers from the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Baltimore, Maryland. Stuart Harshbarger, PhD, has been appointed to the role of chief scientific officer, ...

Orthocare Innovations Names Research Officials

The Oklahoman
June 03, 2009
Orthocare Innovations, a medical device research and development company, has added a chief scientific officer and a director of robotic systems as the Oklahoma City medical device research company seeks to commercialize its research. Both new positions are filled by researchers from Johns Hopk...

Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Join Orthocare Innovations

The Journal Record
June 03, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - Two researchers from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have joined Orthocare Innovations of Oklahoma City. Stuart Harshbarger will be chief scientific officer with Orthocare innovations. He was program manager and systems integrator for more than $100 million in federal sup...

Dr. Lonnie Love Joins Orthocare Innovations Board of Medical and Scientific Advisors

O&P Business News
May 01, 2009
Orthocare Innovations announced the addition of Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) researcher Lonnie Love, PhD to its Medical and Scientific Advisory Board. Love received his PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1995 and joined ORNL later that year. Love is a ...

Orthocare Innovations Names Director of Engineering

O&P Edge
May 01, 2009
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has named Michael Markmiller as its director of engineering. Markmiller has more than 13 years of experience in the aerospace industry as a systems engineer, according to Orthocare. He served in senior engineering capacities in Southern California w...

Orthocare Innovations to Research Dynamic Sockets

O&P Edge
April 14, 2009
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded to Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a competitive Phase I research grant toward developing a dynamically adjusting prosthetic socket system. The system will be designed to automatically adapt to fluctuations in the wearer's phys...

Four Join Orthocare Innovations Medical and Scientific Board

O&P Edge
April 14, 2009
Stuart Harshbarger, PhD; Lonnie Love, PhD; Doran Edwards, MD; and Kenneth M. Nelson, MD, joined the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Harshbarger is a researcher and member of the principal professional staff at Johns Hopkins University App...

Oklahoma: The Research Capital of the Plains

Distinctly Oklahoma
April 01, 2009
  Debra Levy Martinelli Sound implausible? It shouldn't. It's happening now, with a big boost from Oklahoma's Economic Development Generating Excellence. Gov. Brad Henry launched EDGE in 2003 in cooperation with the Oklahoma Department of Commerce and the Oklahoma State Regents for Sample I...

Orthocare Innovations Names Director of Finance and Administration

O&P Business News
April 01, 2009
Orthocare Innovations announced the addition of Cynthia Thompson, CPA, as director of finance and administration. Thompson will serve as a member of OrthoCare's senior management team in Oklahoma City. Thompson brings more than 15 years experience in health care finance and administration to her ...

Orthocare Innovations Alliance to Get Millions in DoD Research

The Journal Record
February 27, 2009
BY BRIAN BRUS OKLAHOMA CITY - Orthocare Innovations LLC has formed a multi-agency alliance to tap into millions of dollars in U.S. Defense Department funds for prosthetics research, manufacturing and commericalization in OKlahoma City, executives said Wednesday. 'One of the things we talked abou...

Orthocare Innovations, Johns Hopkins Reunite for Project

The Oklahoman
February 24, 2009
  By Steve Lackmeyer Orthocare Innovations is teaming up with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab to seek $10 million for an Oklahoma City prosthetics technology center.   Pattern recognition systems for multijoint control are being tested for a prosthesis. Orthocare, a p...

New Additions to Help Orthocare Innovations in Medicare Approval Process

The Journal Record
February 24, 2009
By Brian Brus OKLAHOMA CITY- The addition of three new medical and scientific advisers will let Orthocare innovations move its prosthetic and orthotic technology to market that much faster, and likely help that company attract more venture capital, Chief Executive Doug McCormack said Monday. B...

Top Science Breakthroughs of 2008

The Oklahoman
January 01, 2009
Science and Technology marched onward in 2008. Some achievements represented breakthroughs that could benefit the human race, some added to our understanding of our world and the universe, while others tempted us with potential for the future. Discoveries Tied to the State Some key Oklahoma sci...

Orthocare Innovations Partners with Oak Ridge National Lab

O&P Business News
January 01, 2009
Oklahoma City-based Orthocare Innovations held a press conference to spotlight the newest technologies to be transferred into the company's line of developments. Partnering with Orthocare Innovation's on this event was Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, lead researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratori...

Biotech Startups May Get a Head Start

The Oklahoman
November 20, 2008
BY STEVE LACKMEYER Published: November 20, 2008 The Oklahoman City Redevelopment Authority and the Presbyterian Health Foundation are negotiating a plan that would create a 'mobile incubator' to attract and then retain startup biotech companies. The deal, which was approved in concept Wednesday...

First Round of EDGE Funding Goes to Medical, Meteorology Fields

The Journal Record
November 13, 2008
Oklahoma City - One of the first multimillion-dollar awards from a state-funded economic development program will help Orthocare Innovations establish a major orthopedics hub with a new manufacturing plant in Oklahoma City, executives announced this week. 'It's really kind of pivotal for us, al...

Board Gives Research Nod

The Oklahoman
November 11, 2008
The EDGE endowment policy board rewarded five finalists with nearly $12 million Monday, including one company that plans to establish its headquarters in Oklahoma City and employ more than 100 people. The awards are designed to spur development of new technologies that promise to change the econom...

Orthocare Innovations Partners with Oak Ridge National Lab and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab on Technology Transfer Commercialization

Associated Press
November 01, 2008
      Last week Oklahoma City-based Orthocare Innovations held a press conference to spotlight the newest technologies to be transferred into the company’s already exciting line of developments. Partnering with Orthocare Innovations on this event was Oklahoma Sen...

Orthocare Innovations Receives NIH Award

O&P Business News
November 01, 2008
Orthocare Innovations was awarded the Phase II National Institutes of Health (NIH) $750,000 competitive research award through the Small Business Innovative Research Program. This award is co-founded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Development (NICHD) and the National ...

High-Tech Robotics to be Built in City

The Oklahoman
October 30, 2008
Dressed in military fatigues and standing at attention before an Oklahoma City audience Thursday morning, a life-sized mannequin showed off the astounding life-like arm movements that new prosthetic technology is bringing amputees. Robotic arm and hand demonstration at a technology  brief...

Orthocare Innovations Takes a Hand in Study

The Oklahoman
October 30, 2008
Orthocare Innovations, a prosthetic technology research and development firm with a laboratory in the Presbyterian Health Research Park, has launched a research partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to transfer advanced technologies from military and ...

Orthocare Innovations Secures Technology License Through ORNL

The Journal Record
October 30, 2008
Orthocare Innovations has secured a license through the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop prosthetic applications for mesofluidic technology in Oklahoma City, company officials said Thursday. Ken Whitten demonstrates how his prosthetic arms work in comparison to a robotic arm driven by me...

NIH Grants Orthocare Innovations $750K

The O&P Edge
October 02, 2008
Orthocare Innovations, headquartered in Washington DC, received notification on September 29 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that it has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II competitive research award through the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. This award is co-funded ...

Medical Device Innovation Carries Promise for State

The Oklahoman
September 21, 2008
Doug McCormack, CEO Sunday Oklahoman As Oklahoma is searching for the next 'big thing' in bioscience, local decision-makers should consider the advantages of establishing Oklahoma City as a national leader in medical device development and commercialization. The state already has a rich hi...

Orthocare Innovations Selected as a Top Grant Recipient by NIH

O&P Business News
September 15, 2008
Orthocare Innovations was selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a top phase II research award recipient for its work in the area of prosthetic alignment. In July, Orthocare presented at NIH's annual Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer Prog...

NIH Gives Orthocare Innovations Top Marks

O&P Edge
August 11, 2008
Orthocare Innovations, Washington DC, gave a poster presentation at the 25th anniversary celebration of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, July 22-23, in Atlanta, Georgia. Orthocare was invited to present as an SBIR grantee whose grant re...

Duo of Dougs Lead Orthocare Innovations Mission to Improve Prosthetics

The Journal Record
June 10, 2008
Doug McCormack, CEO by Brian Bruse OKLAHOMA CITY - Orthocare Innovations continued growth spurt with the naming of Doug Wallace as chief operating officer this month is slightly misleading - Chief Executive Doug McCormack was setting gears in motion far ahead of the prosthetics company's launc...

New Technology Puts Amputees Back in the Game

O&P Business News
June 01, 2008
Chris Johnson wears the iPed supramelleolar foot, a collaborative effort between Orthocare Innovations and College Park Industries. By Stephanie Z. Pavlou O&P Business News The hockey player races across the ice, planning his next move. He sneaks around a defender and faces the goalie -...

Making Strides in Microprocessor Feet

O&P Almanac
May 15, 2008
We've got knees already. Now it's time for computer-controlled feet to join the microprocessor club. Ossur's Proprio Foot, the iPed by Orthocare Innovations and the iWalk Power Foot are the first three members. Their improved gait, range of motion and terrain adjustment aim to allow amputees to walk...

Advancing Tools Help Mesh Man, Machine

The Oklahoman
April 20, 2008
By Tami AlthoffStaff Writer NORMAN - A young man jumps off a curb, climbs down a hill then takes a seat on a park bench, firmly planting the soles of both feet flat on the ground. This wouldn't be unusual, except for the fact that the man is wearing a prosthetic foot. With conventional prosthe...

From Low Tech to High, Vision Links Companies

The Oklahoman
April 15, 2008
By Jim StaffordBusiness Writer When he was 13 years old, Doug McCormack lost his left leg to bone cancer. He was fitted with a low-tech wooden prosthetic leg that allowed very little mobility. Then in 1984 his parents saw a small story in the Pittsburgh Press about Teddy Kennedy Jr. ...