Digital Orthopaedics

Digital Orthopaedics is a Digital Health company with the mission to provide a comprehensive Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for musculoskeletal pathologies, the foot and ankle in particular. our ambition is to transforms the planning and execution of orthopedic surgeries and treatment with the ultimate goal of Personalizing Orthopedic Treatment through the innovative use of ideation, modeling and 3D simulation.
We provide surgeons, patients, and medical devices companies with a state of the art CDSS to identify the optimal treatment and surgical therapeutic plan for each patient and to assist medical device companies with a mechanism for virtual clinical studies for testing implants and prosthetic ankles.

Digital Orthopaedics’ Clinical Decision Support System value proposition is articulated around three technological platforms:
– Knowledge base and diagnostic support platform for foot and ankle pathologies. It will allow physicians, healthcare professionals and patients to collect clinical signs, understand the pathology and choose treatments based on the knowledge from the best experts.
– A personalized surgical simulation platform to assist primarily the orthopaedic surgeons to develop surgical plan with a clear Root-cause analysis of the disease. The platform includes tools for patient image analysis and segmentation.
– A machine learning and clinical cases platform that will enrich the company knowledge and will allow improving the outcomes of the diagnostic support and personalized surgical simulation platforms.

The company was founded in 2016 by Eric Halioua, a serial entrepreneur, and two Key Opinion Leaders (Dr. Bruno Ferré and Dr. Thibaut Leemrijse, orthopedic surgeons specialized in the foot and ankle surgery).

Digital Orthopaedics is funded by the Belgian Mutual Insurance Fund Integrale and loans from the Walloon region (Belgium). The company is incubated by 3DEXPERIENCELab, the new Dassault Systèmes’ laboratory of Open Innovation.

Company’s Keywords:

digital health, orthopaedics, foot, ankle, 3d, clinical decision support system, simulation, surgery