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We already have got opportunity to detail principles, rationale and running of these new “Monitored” Data Bases MDB… It is great time right now to present upon a practical means three tutorials describing in details the three serial steps which allow for getting a MDB linked to any other existing “agreed” RDV, then for customizing this MDB as to fit the requirements of the pending study, and finally using this MDB to carry out at best the clinical study upon the regulatory commitments about follow-up for enrolled cases.

These three tutorials thus comprise: (1) Settings by the Local Administrator of the “transmitting” RDB allowing for CRFs to get linked with the corresponding MDB by those among all users of this RDB that have been agreed to participate in the study and so to include their cases. The tutorial also describes how these users can “send” their arthroplasty forms to the MDB. (2) The second tutorial is devoted to the set up of the MDB itself by the Local Administrator of this MDB (who generally is different from the “transmitting” RDB Administrator). This set up regards the various parameters of the study, and firstly the agreed users including their rights for getting access to CRFs, choice of follow-up periods to be considered, and used clinical scores, as well as any kind of administrative data allowing the Manager to get in touch at any time with any of the actors participating in the ongoing study. (3) The third tutorial at last, is in fact the most important as it details the practical use of these MDBs while carrying out any study, namely with respect to the three specific MDB sub-tabs devoted to the display of the official protocol, as well as current statistics about inclusions of CRFs and status at the various follow-up periods, and also the directory of all enrolled patients with personal status according to their participation in the study. The monitoring of any clinical study can thus be performed ideally and on real time… Read More

As previously reported, OrthoWave aims to afford a consistent integrated computerized tool, covering all clinical and radiological outcomes in Orthopaedics, with regards mainly to Hip and Knee Arthroplasty, and soon with addition of other modules such as Shoulder, Knee Ligaments, Spine, …. The current architecture of the software addressed in fact the so-called “post-marketing” studies and publishing about personal series (”regular” data bases as RDBs) or within the frame of multicenter studies (anonymized “scientific” so called SDBs databases). It became obvious that this organization cannot specifically tailor the strict needs and recommendations devoted to the “monitored” clinical studies carried out by Clinical Affairs departments of Devices Manufacturers, and namely with respect to the so-called “pre-marketing” studies

Thus the MDBs (i.e. Monitored Data Bases) were born, which will constitute,  in addition to the “Regular” Data Bases RDBs and anonymized “Scientific” Data Bases SDBs, the “Third Pillar” of the OrthoWave Outcome Study Suite. These MDBs are currently on duty, and the following lines will define again rationale, principles and running of these monitored databases, as well as dynamic links and interaction between these MDBs and the “regular” databases RDBs from which CRFs (Clinical Record Forms) have been recorded, under the global OrthoWave architecture and organization. By the way, a set of devoted tutorials will allow for highlighting the various steps of creation, settings, customization and use of these MDBs… Read More

You have heard about OrthoWave in good words? Excellent… You have tested, analyzed, compared, assessed the various outcomes studies softwares in Arthroplasty, and the final choice is… OrthoWave!  Congratulations and thanks for putting your confidence in us… Welcome aboard!

Based upon a practical way, too often prospective Users do not really know how and where they can purchase the Software, and then while receiving their access codes as Administrator of their own database (DB), get a bit lost at the time they have to settle it appropriately…

We have thus designed for you these two tutorials, devoted respectively for the first one to the means of purchasing on line the OrthoWave software suite, and for the second to setting up the prospective DB of your own, as being its Administrator. Of course, would you receive an access code as a User of an OW existing database, no specific setting is requested from your side, and you just have to be in touch with your “Local Administrator”… However, you might get interest in discovering this tutorial anyway. After all, maybe soon you will feel the call of run your own data base ? Read More

As this New Year comes up, it is our pleasure on behalf of the entire OrthoWave Staff, to present to each of you our very sincere wishes of happiness and fruitfulness. Be sure we will do more than our very best, all along this coming year, to make you taking advantage of the huge work we have been achieving during the past 12 months. In the course of 2009, we have afforded enormous resources in order to take up the challenge of making OrthoWave stay as the “ultimate tool in outcomes studies in Orthopaedics”, while fulfilling on the one hand strictness of legal duties with respect to privacy and computerized safety, and on the other hand resorting to the most powerful and modern computer systems.

These critical developments regard firstly the new “web-based” platform to get access to the DataBase, then the “OrthoWave Orthopaedic Community” through a totally redesigned OrthoWave web site, and finally a necessary adaptation to extremely changing regulations about clinical studies with the development of a third group of OW databases, i.e. the “MDB” monitored Data Bases…

A sound change can be anticipated, willingly or reluctantly, regarding mentality among Orthopaedic Surgeons, with respect to their participation in clinical studies and scientific reports. OrthoWave then has to be empowered to meet with these various changes at best, while staying in accordance with its concept of software designed by surgeons for surgeons, under the aegis of Scientific Societies, and in conformity with legal related recommendations by Health Departments…

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OrthoWave aims to afford a consistent integrated computerized tool, covering all clinical and radiological outcomes in Orthopaedics, with respect to Hip and Knee Arthroplasty, and soon with addition of other modules such as Shoulder, Knee Ligaments, Spine, …). The current architecture of the software mainly addresses the so-called “post-marketing” studies and publishing about personal series (”regular” data bases as RDBs) or in the frame of multicenter studies (anonymized “scientific” so called SDBs databases). It became obvious that this organization cannot specifically tailor the strict needs and recommendations devoted to the “monitored” clinical studies carried out by Clinical Affairs departments of Devices Manufacturers, and namely with respect to the so-called “pre-marketing” studies.

Obviously, it becomes necessary to complete nowadays the existing architecture of OrthoWave, while taking advantage of the already available advanced routines (namely through the Ajax secured web-based platform), in order to tailor the specifications as requested by the Clinical Affairs Departments (CADs), while reducing at the most costs of development by taking advantage of the existing OrthoWave architecture. Read More

The Annual Congress of the Orthopaedic French Society (SoFCOT) in Paris from 16th to 19th November is an absolute must within the French Orthopaedic Community to get opportunities to meet, exchange, share ideas and skills, as well as establishing new contacts.

We will thus be pleased to present the numerous additional developments to the OrthoWave software suite, on which we have be working hard during the past months, in order to make OrthoWave more friendly-user and efficient while following up patients and analyzing results…

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The OrthoWave Data transfer on our new Global Servers Wednesday, October 7 has been successfully done.   Thanks to these new servers, OW  connections and EDC procedures will be even faster and easier ! Some adjustements are simply due now  regarding images storage on the two different Java and Web servers.

The final transfer of the Servers has been scheduled on October, Wednesday 21st early in the morning, which might lead to slower response to get access to images and data, due to this scheduled maintenance window. Read More

OrthoWave has been designed from the very beginning as a gold-standard software of outcomes studies and evaluation in Orthopaedics, which means that it must allow for analyses in all domains of Orthopaedics. Of course the two main modules regarded the Hip and Knee Arthroplasty ones, and hence we have been continuously working during the past 12 years to settle a computer system allowing for covering (almost?) all needs and expectations of Orthopaedic Surgeons and Clinical Research Persons in the realm of Hip and Knee Arthroplasty, so as to be able later on to adapt them to other domains in Orthopaedics.

The OrthoWave Computer System currently available can right now lead to development of other modules, and namely the Shoulder Arthroplasty (TSA) and Knee Ligaments Injuries (KLI), while waiting for Spine, Ankle Replacement, or any other type of Surgery within the realm of “Evidence-based Medicine”… Read More

OrthoWave features a unique concept which allows exporting anonymously any Arthroplasty form from any “Regular DataBase” to linked “virtual Scientific DataBases” so as to analyze results of particular studies while preserving the privacy of both Patients and medical Staff… Read More

The entire OW staff wishes you a fantastic new year… As a matter of fact, this coming year will offer critical ads to the OrthoWave software suite. These coming developments will be later on presented in details through the OrthoWave-Community web site, however we would just list some of them in few words, including the new “W-OW” OrthoWave in AJAX Web language, the newly designed Shoulder Joint module, pending partnerships with OrthoView for preop planning, or a plug-in that allows for printing Joint ID cards for traceability, without forgetting the most recent news about Joint registries… Read More

... And lots of thanks for your enthusiastic support !

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Festival of Lights in Lyon

Lyon was advertized as the “City of lights”, according to the Traditional Feast of Illumination of this  world-class Festival of Lights, which constitutes a traditional and famous event each year by the beginning of December… Although being a bit “trapped” between numerous scientific events, such as the French Sofcot, the annual “Hip” meeting in Toulouse and others, the recent Lyon Hip meeting “Journées Lyonnaises de la Hanche”, precisely scheduled at this date in order to celebrate these illuminations of Lyon, has been nevertheless a great event upon both quality of the scientific program and huge periods of time generously allowed for discussion regarding the various presented topics…

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We have been greatly pleased to personally present there our “Long-term results for Avascular Head Necrosis with HA-Coated THRs in young and active patients: based upon a prospective 12-21 years series with the HA Omnifit Stem and HA Arc2f screw cup”. This study had been successfully carried out thanks to our Hip database through the OrthoWave outcome study software suite, as usual… Read More

The coming French annual congress of the Société Française de chirurgie Orthopédique et Traumatologie (SoFCOT) to be held in Paris, Palais des Congrès, Porte Maillot from November 10th to 13rd will represent a superb opportunity to meet with all our present (and future) OrthoWave users.

The ARIA-ORTHOWAVE booth will be located at the Exhibition area, as T13, close to the “cyber area”, and during the whole day the OW staff will be there to welcome each of you, to demonstrate the abilities of the current version of OW and to answer all questions related to the software suite.

Do not hesitate to address us and get fresh and consistent information about OrthoWave V6… See you there… and “Be OrthoWaved!…” Read More

We have been working hard for the past six months to check the various sides of the software suite, dig out the potential improvements, and feature new developments and functionalities… Here we are today with the abilities of auto-updates that prevent from tedious repetitive downloads. It has been particularly challenging with the Macintosh platform, to deal with the secret hidden specs of Tiger vs Leopard and vice versa… It’s working fine nowadays and we have to thank our Mac users for their patience, being said that we have never thought about leaving them on the side of the road!…

One other question has risen up about the speed of connection and display of windows whilst on line… In particular the tests on real time with the huge and complex Dr Koen De Smet’s V5 database transferred to V6 with about 5000 patients, including thousands of images have led us improving the software regarding some directions… Read More

The old California-style 1996 OW logo on our white shirts became a bit old fashioned … Here is the new collection and the new logo on black polo presented to OWCOM by Olivier …

Ideal for golf, ride to the waterfront or simply to relax for a drink with friends, this polo labeled OW is available on request at info@orthowave.net (at a special € 30 price - shipping not included; please indicate S, M, L, XL or XXL size).

We will be happy to provide it as a gift to our OW members who have made each month the best contribution to our OrthoWave Community… More to see!… Read More

This story takes place in an hospital, similar to any other hospital in the world, in which Oliver works as a promising resident in Orthopaedic Surgery. At the beginning of the game, the Boss needs Oliver to carry on a complete study about an orthopaedic implant, i.e. the “divine” Hip, to be presented… 3 months later!

Oliver, with the help of his friend, Joey, and Monica, the lovely secretary, will discover the OrthoWave outcomes study suite. Step by step, thanks to precious advises of Barry the Statistician, Ito, the Graphic designer, and Dwight, the Professor, he will finally succeed in this huge challenge!!! At each of the 10 levels of the game, videos are displayed and a quiz allows to go ahead. Got lost! No fear, just visit Master OWA!…

OrthoWave the Game can surely be regarded as the most pleasant and fancy means of getting comfortable with the OrthoWave use… Let’s go!…

Download ”OrthoWave, the game”  for free by downloading your version (click on PC or MAC options…)… Read More

We are in 2096, somewhere in a faraway galaxy, a spaceship is going its way. An impressive “astro-surgeon” is performing some studies about the results of a very new “Hip bio-implant” at … 65 years of follow-up, based upon the OrthoWave™ software suite, of course!

From data collection by some sprightly droids, and link with several astro-colleagues here and there in the Galaxy, to the merge of data and final publication, the study is ready to be lectured at the Intergalactic Scientific Center…

Enjoy !

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Olivier Duriez, André Cadart at the OW booth in Madrid

Just back from the 8th “Domestic” European Hip Society (EHS) meeting in Madrid… We have got there the opportunity to meet previous, current and future OW Users at our first official OrthoWave booth and could demonstrate all critical functionalities that are right now afforded by the OW version 6. Obviously the whole congress has been studious and fruitful upon a friendly Spanish atmosphere. Congratulations to Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo, President of the European Hip Society, for organizing the meeting in a so famous city… We have been delighted to share a cocktail in the famous Bernabeu stadium, visit the Prado and especially the Goya exhibition, order tapas here and there and clap on “flamenco tablaos”… Viva España! Read More

The coming EHS meeting next June in Madrid will be an excellent opportunity to officially introduce OrthoWave, since for the very first time a booth will be devoted in the Exhibition area to our Software Suite. We are anxious to meet our users, answer questions, record new ideas and proposals, and demonstrate the new features afforded by the current off and on line versions. An advertizing has also been planned on the cover of the EHS Scientific program, summing up the major functionalities of OrthoWave… Read More

Nobody on earth would be foolish enough to compare the production of carrots in a small farm in northern France, with growth rates of rabbits in a farming in Ardeche, in order to define the merits of fishing quotas mackerel in the North Atlantic. It’s (almost) what we can usually read while checking the results of prosthetic implants, as published in the scientific literature itself, from different series, grouping variables analyzed along sometimes divergent criteria, and anyway serving as absolute references to the famous meta-analysis, so dear to our speakers …

In terms of economic or industrial production, the analytic reports must be expressed and distributed in accordance with strict standards. Could one imagine a standard for presentation of results of the series of our prostheses? Read More