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Orthocare Innovations Receives Patent Protection for Edison Adaptive Vacuum Suspension System

October 14, 2011
Oklahoma City, OK, October 14, 2011 – Orthocare Innovations announces that it has been notified by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that patent protection has been granted for the Edison Adaptive Vacuum Suspension System (Edison). “Edison represents the next step in Orthoc...

Orthocare Innovations Appoints Vice President, Sales and Marketing

October 04, 2011
Oklahoma City, OK, October 4, 2011 - Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Stephen Jacobs as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, a new position in the company. Mr. Jacobs joins Orthocare from Checkpoint Surgical, an early stage medical device company where he served as Vic...

Dr Kenneth Nelson Support

The OPGA Connection Magazine
June 23, 2011
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It All Gets Better

The OPGA Connection Magazine
June 23, 2011
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Congressional Leaders Urge HHS Secretary to Approve Coding for Advanced Lower Limb Prosthetic Device, Smart Pyramid

The OPGA Connection Magazine
May 03, 2011
Oklahoma City, OK, May 3, 2011—House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Congressman Norm Dicks, along with House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Congressman Adam Smith, senior House Ways and Means Committee member Congressman Jim McDermott, and Energy and Commerce Committee member...

Helping Kids With Their Leaps and Bounds

The O&P Edge
April 05, 2011
Advanced Biofidelic Lower Extremity Kids (ABLE Kids) Prosthesis Project aims to help kids hit the playground running. Prosthetics manufacturers have traditionally shied away from the special challenges presented by the pediatric market. For technical as well as practical reasons, the needs of thi...

Scheck & Siress Signs Partnership Agreement to Implement Smart Pyramid™ Across Clinical Platform With Aim Toward Improving Patient Outcomes

The O&P Edge
February 17, 2011
Oklahoma City, OK, January 17, 2011-Scheck & Siress, one of the nation's premier private providers of orthotic and prosthetic healthcare, has executed a partnership agreement with Orthocare Innovations, a developer and manufacturer of advanced O&P technologies. The agreement provides Scheck ...

Hensley Joins Orthocare Innovations

The O&P Edge
January 04, 2011
David Hensley, CPO, FAAOP Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has appointed David Hensley, CPO, FAAOP, as its director of sales. Before joining Orthocare, Hensley served for ten years as the prosthetic product manager and clinical education manager for Trulife, Poulsbo, Washington. He ...

Industry Veteran David Hensley, CPO, FAAOP, Joins Orthocare Innovations as Director of Sales

The O&P Edge
January 03, 2011
Oklahoma City, OK, January 3, 2011 – Orthocare Innovations has appointed David Hensley, CPO, FAAOP, as its new Director of Sales. For the past decade, Mr. Hensley served as a Prosthetic Product Manager and Clinical Education Manager for Trulife, Inc. Previously, he served in marketing...

Orthocare Innovations Tapped for $1.4M in Competitive Research Grants

oandp.com
December 22, 2010
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been slated to receive approximately $1.4 million in federal research grants toward the following three ongoing projects: Advanced Prosthetic Socket The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, a division of the National Ins...

Tech Sector Adds 47,000 Jobs So Far in 2010

Bloomberg Businessweek
December 21, 2010
Tech jobs are making a comeback in the U.S. as global demand increases. The metro area with the biggest gain? Oklahoma City Tech jobs are coming back after hitting bottom early this year, according to economy tracker Moody's Analytics (MCO). The U.S. economy has added 47,000 technology jobs so far ...

Orthocare Innovations Tapped for $1.4 Million in Competitive Research Grants

Bloomberg Businessweek
December 21, 2010
Oklahoma City, OK, December 17, 2010–Orthocare Innovations has been slated to receive approximately $1.4 million in federal research grants toward three ongoing projects to develop advanced prosthetic-limb technologies. "Our technical team continues to enjoy tremendous success through the ...

Oklahoma City's Orthocare Lands Grants for Prosthetic Research

The Oklahoman
December 21, 2010
Orthocare Innovations will receive about $1.4 million in federal research grants for three ongoing projects to develop advanced prosthetic-limb technologies.Orthocare Innovations is getting a boost from the federal government for three ongoing projects. The Oklahoma City company will use ...

Wright & Filippis Partners With Orthocare Innovations

oandp.com
December 08, 2010
Wright & Filippis, Rochester Hills, Michigan, has executed a partnership agreement with Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The agreement provides Wright & Filippis’ 37 private O&P healthcare clinics access to Orthocare Innovations’ evidence-based practice...

Wright & Filippis Signs Partnership Agreement to Implement Smart Pyramid Across Clinical Platform Toward Improving Patient Outcomes

oandp.com
December 06, 2010
Oklahoma City, OK, December 6, 2010—Wright & Filippis, one of the nation’s largest private providers of orthotic and prosthetic healthcare, has executed a partnership agreement with Orthocare Innovations, a developer and manufacturer of advanced O&P technologies. The ag...

StepWatch Moves to City

The Oklahoman
October 21, 2010
Orthocare Innovations now is manufacturing in Oklahoma City a physical activity monitoring device called StepWatch. The device previously was made in Seattle, where Orthocare was based before moving to Oklahoma City. StepWatch is used in clinical research and therapeutic evaluation. &nbs...

Orthocare Innovations Receives Award

Journal Record
October 20, 2010
Orthocare Innovations was presented the 2010 da Vinci Award, an international award for technologies for people with disabilities. Oklahoma City-based Orthocare received the award for its Compas Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System."We are very pleased to receive this prestigious internati...

Orthocare Innovations Brings New Manufacturing Line, Full-Time Jobs, to Oklahoma City

Journal Record
October 20, 2010
Oklahoma City, OK, October 19, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations has added to its manufacturing operations in Oklahoma City by establishing a new production line to manufacture StepWatch™, Orthocare’s widely used physical activity monitoring device. To date, Orthocare has produc...

Orthocare Wins da Vinci Award

OandP.com
October 20, 2010
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has won the 2010 da Vinci Award, in the Prosthetics/Orthotics/Controls category, for its Compas™ Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System. “We are very pleased to receive this prestigious international award from the National Multi...

Orthocare Innovations Recognized for Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System

Rehab Management
October 14, 2010
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, has received the 2010 da Vinci Award for its Compas™ Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System, a device that helps improve the alignment of prostheses for people with leg amputations. The da Vinci Awards are a global awards program presented by th...

New Suspension Methods for Disarticulation Amputees Keep Up with O&P Innovations

O&P Business News
October 02, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. — Practitioners may only see a few patients with shoulder disarticulation due to a small patient population; hence educational experiences with these patients could be limited. Jay Martin, CP, LP, FAAOP for Orthocare Innovations, told attendees at the 2010 American Ort...

Orthocare Innovations Wins da Vinci Award for Compas Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System

O&P Business News
September 30, 2010
Oklahoma City, OK, September 30, 2010—Orthocare Innovations has been honored with the 2010 da Vinci Award, an international award that spotlights the world’s most innovative technologies for people with disabilities. Orthocare received the award for its Compas™ Computerized Pro...

Galileo: Charting the Future of O&P

OandP.com
September 30, 2010
Galileo Galilei had a problem with data. The titan among Renaissance scientist-philosophers had exhorted his fellows to "measure what is measurable and make measurable what is not so," and in following his own advice confirmed a new view of the universe—that the earth revolved around the sun, ...

Orthocare Innovations Names Morgan Stanfield Director of Marketing and Communications

OandP.com
September 22, 2010
Morgan Stanfield Oklahoma City, OK, September 15, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations has appointed Morgan Stanfield as its new Director of Marketing and Communications. Ms. Stanfield is an award-winning journalist who most recently served as Assistant Editor at The O&P E...

Orthocare Appoints Director of Marketing and Communications

OandP.com
September 22, 2010
Orthocare Innovations, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has appointed Morgan Stanfield as its new director of marketing and communications. Stanfield is an award-winning journalist who most recently served as an assistant editor at The O&P EDGE. According to a company press release, Stan...

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 Receives R&D 100 Award

O&P Business News
July 20, 2010
Orthocare Innovations has been selected by R&D Magazine to receive its R&D 100 Award. Orthocare Innovations received this award for its Galileo system, a novel approach for measuring, analyzing and reporting the function of persons who have experienced lower limb loss, inju...

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 Innovations Receives Prestigious R&D 100 Award for Novel Web-Based Rehabilitation Outcomes Assessment System

OandP.com
July 12, 2010
Oklahoma City, OK July 9, 2010 -- For the second consecutive year, Orthocare Innovations has been selected by R&D Magazine to receive its prestigious R&D 100 Award. Orthocare Innovations received this award for its Galileo™ system, a novel approach for measuring, analyzing and ...

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...

Orthocare Design Recognized at Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum Exhibition

O&P Business News
June 16, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, June 16, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations’ Chief Science Officer, Director of Robotic Systems and key engineering staff members were recognized for innovative design accomplishments at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’...

Orthocare Innovations' Names General Manager of Oklahoma City Production Facility

O&P Business News
June 14, 2010
Orthocare Innovations announced the addition of David Adams as general manager of its Oklahoma City facility. Adams joins Orthocare from Trulife where he served as vice president. Adams brings more than 14 years of experience in the O&P and orthopedic sectors, including leadership roles...

Orthocare Innovations Compas Recognized at Medical Design Excellence Awards

O&P Business News
June 11, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, June 11, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations’ Compas™ (Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System) was recognized on June 9, 2010 at the 2010 Medical Design Excellence Awards ceremony in New York City. Compas™ was a silver medal winner i...

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...

Industry Veteran David Adams Named General Manager of Orthocare Innovations' Oklahoma City Production Facility

OandP.com
June 07, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, June 7, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of David Adams as General Manager of its Oklahoma City facility. Mr. Adams joins Orthocare from Trulife where he served as Vice President. Mr. Adams brings over fourteen ye...

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™...

Orthocare Welcomes Michael Orendurff, MS and Courtney Moran, CP, MS

O&P Edge
May 27, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, May 27, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of two new clinical services staff members: Michael Orendurff, MS as Director of Activity Monitoring and Outcomes Services; and Courtney Moran, CP, MS as Clinical Services Ma...

Orthocare Innovations Compas System Wins Edison Award

OandP.com
May 06, 2010
Orthocare Innovations’, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Compas™ (Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System) was recognized at the 2010 Edison Best New Product Awards in New York City on April 29. Orthocare’s alignment system received the bronze award in the Science and Medical Cate...

Orthocare Innovations' Compas and Smart Pyramid Recognized at Edison Best New Products Awards

OandP.com
May 04, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, May 4, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations’ Compas™ (Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System) was recognized on April 29 at the 2010 Edison Best New Product Awards in New York City. Orthocare was voted as one of three top products from over...

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...

Suzie Williams, CP Joins Orthocare Innovations as Clinical Services Manager

oandP.com
April 27, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, April 27, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Suzie Williams, CP as Clinical Services Manager. Williams joins Orthocare from Ossur Americas where she served as Regional Clinical Manager. “We ar...

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...

Ph.D. Biomedical Engineer/Orthotist Joins Orthocare Innovations as Research Scientist

OandP.com
April 13, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, April 13, 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...

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...

Orthocare Innovations Selects SPS as Domestic Distribution Partner

O&P Edge
March 08, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, March 4, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive domestic distributor agreement with SPS (Southern Prosthetic Supply). The distribution relationship will focus on Orthocare’s pipel...

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...

Compas Named a Finalist in 2010 Edison Best New Products Award

O&P Edge
February 17, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, February 17, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations has been notified that its Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System, Compas™, was named a finalist in the 2010 Edison Best New Product Awards. Compas™ is a finalist in the Science ...

Orthocare Innovations Announces Strategic Investment

O&P Edge
February 01, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, February 1, 2010 Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce that it has completed a significant equity investment with Schooner Capital LLC, a Boston-based private investment group. The collaboration between Orthocare Innovations' executive leadershi...

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 ...

Former Microsoft, Amazon.com Software Engineer Joins Orthocare Innovations as Software Architect

O&P Edge
January 19, 2010
News Release Oklahoma City, OK, January 19, 2010 – Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Radu Litiu as Software Architect. Dr. Litiu, who will be resident in Orthocare’s Seattle research facility, is a proven information technologyprofessiona...

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...

Orthocare Innovations and OPGA Team to Offer Patient Functional Outcomes Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Service

R&D 100
September 18, 2009
Orthocare Innovations, LLC and the Orthotic and Prosthetic Group of America (“OPGA”) are pleased to announce a collaboration to launch the Galileo Functional Outcomes System. The patent-pending Galileo is the O&P field’s first system for objectively measuring and report...

OPIE Software and Orthocare Innovations Team to Integrate Outcomes Solutions into O&P Practice Management Software and Facility Work Flow

R&D 100
September 14, 2009
OPIE Software and Orthocare Innovations, LLC are pleased to announce a collaboration to offer clinical outcomes data collection, analysis and reporting capabilities to orthotic and prosthetic providers. This partnership integrates Orthocare Innovation's advanced O&P technologies into the O...

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...

Adam Arabian, PhD, Joins Orthocare Innovations as Research Scientist

The Journal Record
August 05, 2009
August 5, 2009 Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Adam Arabian as Research Scientist. Adam brings with him over 10 years of experience as a research and development engineer for a broad range of technologies, most recently with the Institute for Bioengineering at t...

Oklahoma City Council Passes Economic Development Financing Package for Orthocare Innovations

The Journal Record
August 04, 2009
August 4, 2009 Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce that the Oklahoma City Council has approved a package of economic development incentives to support the further expansion of its research and manufacturing capabilities in Oklahoma City. The City has allocated a total...

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), ...

Jim Lagerstrom, CP, Joins Orthocare Innovations as National Sales Manager

O&P Edge
August 03, 2009
August 3, 2009 Oklahoma City, OK, August 3, 2009 - Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Jim Lagerstrom, CP, as National Sales Manager. Jim brings fifteen years of sales experience in the O&P industry with Becker Orthopedic, Century XXII Innovations, Inc., and, most rec...

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 Receives Prestigious R&D 100 Award for Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System

The Oklahoman
July 21, 2009
July 22, 2009 Oklahoma City, OK July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Orthocare Innovations and R&D Magazine have announced that Orthocare Innovations has been chosen by R&D Magazine to receive the 2009 R&D 100 Award for its Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System, CompasTM. (Photo: htt...

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

The Oklahoman
July 20, 2009
Orthocare Innovations Selected to Receive Prestigious R&D 100 Award for Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System Oklahoma City, OK, July 20, 2009 - Orthocare Innovations and R&D Magazine have announced that Orthocare Innovations has been chosen by R&D Magazine to receive the 2009 R&...

Orthocare Innovations Selected to Receive Prestigious R&D 100 Award for Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System

The Oklahoman
July 20, 2009
July 20, 2009 Oklahoma City, OK, July 20, 2009 - Orthocare Innovations and R&D Magazine have announced that Orthocare Innovations has been chosen by R&D Magazine to receive the 2009 R&D 100 Award for its Computerized Prosthesis Alignment System, Compas™. Compas™ represents ...

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 Names Director of Manufacturing

i2E
July 15, 2009
Oklahoma City, OK, July 15, 2009 - Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Jerry James as Director of Manufacturing. Mr. James will serve as a member of Orthocare’s senior management team at its headquarters in Oklahoma City. For over 20 years, Mr. Jam...

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Chief Operating Officer Joins Orthocare Innovations' Corporate Board of Advisors

i2E
July 14, 2009
July 14, 2009 Oklahoma City, OK, July 14, 2009- Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Bill Gimson to its Corporate Board of Advisors. Mr. Gimson currently serves as Executive Director of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. In this capacity,...

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 Funded by the U.S. Department of Education

Rehab Management
July 02, 2009
July 2, 2009 Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce that it has received a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research award to study the effectiveness of adding closed loop, haptic feedback capability to prosthetic devices. This project is supported by National Institute on Disability an...

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 University Applied Physics Lab Group Joins Orthocare Innovations

The Oklahoman
June 03, 2009
click here to watch the video --> Oklahoma City, OK, June 3, 2009 -Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) researchers Stuart Harshbarger, in the role of Chief Scientific Officer, and Matthew Kozlowski Ph.D., as Director...

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 Names Director of Engineering

O&P Business News
March 20, 2009
March 20, 2009 Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Michael Markmiller as Director of Engineering. Mr. Markmiller will serve as a member of Orthocare Innovation's senior management team at its headquarters in Oklahoma City. Mr. Markmiller brings to O...

Orthocare Innovations Secures National Institutes of Health Phase I Award to Develop Dynamically Adjusting Prosthetic Socket System

O&P Business News
March 11, 2009
March 11, 2009 The National Institutes of Health notified Orthocare Innovations today that it has awarded a competitive Phase I research award through the Small Business Innovative Research Program. This award was made by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), a cent...

Oak Ridge National Laboratories Robotics Group Director Joins Orthocare Innovations Board of Medical and Scientific Advisors

O&P Business News
March 10, 2009
March 10, 2009 Oklahoma City, OK, March 10, 2009 - Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) researcher Lonnie Love, Ph.D. to its Medical and Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Love serves as Robotics and Energetic Systems Distinguished Re...

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...

Orthocare Innovations Names Director of Finance and Administration

The Journal Record
February 23, 2009
February 23, 2009 Oklahoma City, OK, February 23, 2009 – Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Cynthia Thompson, CPA as Director of Finance and Administration. Ms. Thompson will serve as a member of Orthocare’s senior management team in Oklahoma City. M...

DARPA Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 Program Manager Joins Orthocare Innovations' Medical and Scientific Board of Advisors

The Journal Record
February 17, 2009
Oklahoma City, OK, February 17, 2009 - Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) researcher Stuart Harshbarger to its Medical and Scientific Advisory Board. As a member of the principal professional staff at APL, Mr. Harshbarger...

Orthocare Innovations Chief Technology Officer to Present with Mayo Clinic Researcher on Prosthesis Alignment and Gait at AAOP Annual Meeting

The Journal Record
February 08, 2009
Orthocare Chief Technology Officer to Present "The Effects of Alignment on Prosthesis Socket Reactions" at the AAOP Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium, March 5, at 1:00 pm. David Boone, CP, MPH, PhD, Chief Technology Officer of Orthocare Innovations and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Prosth...

Dr. David Boone, a Keynote Speaker, for the 2009 Premier Educational Conference

The Journal Record
January 13, 2009
Orthocare Innovations' Chief Technology Officer David Boone, CP, MPH, PhD will present a keynote address at the 2009 Point Premier Educational Conference on January 16, 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Dr. Boone's presentation, 'Compas™: Following Invisible Forces to Documented Improvements ...

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

The Oklahoman
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 on this event was Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, lead ...

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 ...

Orthocare Innovations Receives Phase II National Institutes of Health Award for Development of Self-Aligning Prosthetic Component

The O&P Edge
September 29, 2008
Orthocare Innovations received notification today from the National Institutes of Health that it has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II competitive research award through the Small Business Innovative Research Program. This award is co-founded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child...

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...

Orthocare Innovations Selected as a Top Grant Recipient by the National Institutes of Health

O&P Edge
July 18, 2008
Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the National Institutes of Health as a top Phase II research award recipient for its work in the area of prosthetic alignment. The Company has also been asked to present at NIH's annual SBIR/STTR Conference, to be held July 2...

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...

Orthocare Innovations Announces Addition of Chief Operating Officer and Research Scientist

The Journal Record
June 02, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2008 - Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of Doug Wallace as Chief Operating Officer and Teri Rosenbaum-Chou, PhD as Research Scientist. These two new hires cap an explosive initial period of growth since the Company's launch in October, 2007. Or...

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...

Brinker International Chairman/CEO Joins Orthocare Innovations Corporate Board of Advisors

O&P Almanac
May 01, 2008
Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Douglas H. Brooks to its Corporate Board of Advisors. Mr. Brooks is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE:EAT), parent corporation to Chili's, Maggiano's and several additional casual dining ...

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. ...

Senior Fellow Joins Orthocare Innovations

The Oklahoman
April 14, 2008
Orthocare Innovations is pleased to announce the addition of Nam Banh of Aliso Viejo, CA, as Senior Fellow. A recognized leader in digital signal processing, Mr. Banh brings twenty-five years of technical and industry experience as an electrical engineer and senior scientist for leading corporations...

Orthocare Innovations Receives NIH Phase II Award to Develop Long Term Care Incontinence Management Device

The Oklahoman
April 07, 2008
Orthocare Innovations received notification from the National Institutes of Health that it has been awarded a $750,000 Phase II research award from its National Institute of Nursing Research. This award is to support the work of Orthocare's eldercare technologies group in the area of incontinence m...

Orthocare Innovations' Jay Martin named Oklahoma's 2008 Innovator of the Year

The Oklahoman
March 14, 2008
Jay Martin, Director of Orthocare Innovations' Advanced Systems Group in Oklahoma City, was named Innovator of the Year for 2008 by the Journal Record, Oklahoma's largest business newspaper. Martin was selected from a field of forty finalists from throughout the state. Prior to joining Orthocare, M...

Orthocare Innovations Announces Acquisition of Martin Bionics

The Oklahoman
March 13, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC, March 13 - Orthocare Innovations, LLC is pleased to announce that it has acquired the assets of Martin Bionics, LLC, a research and development company based in Oklahoma City. The entire Martin Bionics staff will be joining Orthocare Innovations, resulting in the formation of one of ...

Orthocare Innovations Receives Two Research Awards from the National Institutes of Health.

The Oklahoman
February 20, 2008
Orthocare Innovations received notification today from the National Institutes of Health that it has been awarded two competitive Phase I research awards through the Small Business Innovative Research Program. Both awards were made by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), ...

Orthocare Innovations Acquires StepWatch™ and IP Assets from Seattle-Based Cyma Corporation.

The Oklahoman
October 01, 2007
Orthocare Innovations, a research and development company focused on the commercialization of rehabilitation and aging technologies, announced today that it has acquired the assets of Cyma Corporation. Included in the transaction are exclusive rights to the patented StepWatch™ activity monitor...