This Month's Profile Group, New Technologies Drive Growth In Orthopedic Extremities, features profiles of Cartiva, Conventus Orthopaedics, and Nextremity Solutions. Plus these Start-Ups Across Health Care: Arvinas, Flower Orthopedics, ImmunGene, and NeuroRecovery Technologies.

By focusing on standardizing products for fracture and bone reconstruction, Flower Orthopedics Corp. hopes to drive efficiencies that will ultimately translate into savings. The company’s flagship FlowerCube is a box that contains all the various devices needed for bone-plating surgery.

Acurian's management believes it targets perhaps the most direct and concrete opportunity to significantly reduce the time it takes to bring a drug to market: the recruitment of patients and physician investigators for clinical trials. Acurian offers web-based solutions designed to help pharmaceutical and biotech companies increase the efficiency of matching patients and investigators to appropriate trials.

Veritas Medicine Inc. aims to streamline the clinical trial recruitment process with a web-based solution for matching patients to trials.