Medtronic has bought surgical instrument developer Fortimedix Surgical, the acquired company said Thursday in a LinkedIn post. Fortimedix has designed articulating instruments to be flexible, robust ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a radio-frequency identification tool that tracks instruments and sponges during surgical procedures. ORLocate, developed by Maumelle, AR-based Haldor ...

A critical incident caused by a shortage of surgical instruments saw a hospital trust cancel about 1,300 surgeries over the ...

Austin, TX, USA, Aug. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Custom Market Insights has published a new research report titled “US Surgical Instrument Tracking Market Size, Trends and Insights By Technology ...

The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s take ...

In 2011, Shimane University Hospital, in Japan, deployed a high-frequency RFID solution to track surgical instruments used on patients through cleaning, sterilization and storage. The Rigshospitalet ...

The global Surgical Instrument Tracking System Market is expected to be worth US$ 255 billion by 2023. According to Future Market Insights (FMI), the surgical instrument tracking system market is ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Nearly 1% of all surgical instruments in hospitals nationwide are rejected before they get to the operating room. They’re screened for blemishes left over from the sterilization ...