Visit their website. Working with Medtronic Sofamor Danek and leading spine surgeons in the United States, PhDx improved and made the Spine software more responsive and easier to track a patient s change in health following spine surgery. Spine surgeons can use Spine 2000 s real-time outcomes data to show patient quality of life improvement following surgery plus gauge the effectiveness of their own spine surgical practices. Spine 2000 focuses on collecting patient-reported information, requiring less work from the physician and staff. Two nationally validated instruments, the Oswestry Back Pain Disability Questionnaire and the Neck Disability Index were added because they are more responsive to tracking changes in patient health status.
Patients have the ability to complete surveys online to measure their progress.
In addition, Spine e-ViewSM and PhysicianLinkSM interfaces are available for physicians to access outcomes information on their patients and practice and the ability to do peer comparisons. As part of the agreement, PhDx will provide Medtronic Sofamor Danek with aggregate de-identified spine surgery outcomes reports. Spine 2000 provides spine surgeons with an advanced software application that fully tracks cervical and low back surgical outcomes, said Geoff Mather, PhDx s CEO and president. This is the only database that tracks spine surgical outcomes over a broad-base of independent physician practices. Medtronic can use the outcomes data collected by Spine 2000 to better understand how they can improve the quality of life for people who suffer with chronic neck or back pain.