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From virtual patients to real innovation! We are very excited to introduce our new product, v-Patients, and its related website v-patients.com.    Some of the highlights you and your team can do with v-Patients include:  ☑️ access a huge database of human and animal virtual patients for anatomy studies  ☑️ perform virtual implantations and statistical analysis jointly with your medical advisors  ☑️ integrate virtual patients throughout the whole product-life-cycle of your medical device development    To find out more check out our new website, visit v-patients.com and book a meeting with us. ☎️    #virtonomy #virtualpatients #insilico #insilicomedicine #digitalhealth #clinicaltrials #healthtech #insilico #medtech #medicaldevices #avicenna

On September 29th we celebrated World Heart Day! ❤️ It is now a known fact that Cardiovascular Diseases are the number 1 cause of deaths all over the world. And while prevention is crucial, here at Virtonomy.io, we believe that advancing treatment is equally important. On this #WorldHeartDay, we reaffirm our commitment to shaping a future where heart disease is treated more effectively and life-saving solutions reach patients faster. 🎯   And this is how we tackle this problem:   ☑ Providing 3D models of underrepresented patient groups to increase device population coverage. 〰 One of our key missions is to extend our database of digital patient twins with 3D models representing underrepresented groups—including women, geriatric patients, those with rare diseases, and pediatric patients. These groups are often overlooked in traditional medical device testing, which can lead to delays in getting the best solutions to those who need them most.   By including a wider range of anatomical models, we're ensuring that cardiovascular devices are better designed, tested, and tailored for every individual—no matter their age, sex, or condition. This means faster innovations, more personalized care, and a step closer to making effective treatments accessible to all.   ☑ Enabling faster time-to-market, bringing innovative devices to patients in a shorter time frame. 〰 With our innovative platform, cardiovascular device developers can virtually implant their devices into these diverse digital models, allowing them to validate and optimize designs before entering costly and time-consuming clinical trials. This approach not only ensures that devices are safe and effective for a wide range of patients but also enables faster time-to-market, bringing innovative devices to patients in a shorter time frame.   📢 So this year we would like to take this opportunity to highlight the importance of making healthcare inclusive, efficient, and accessible. With new technologies such as #digitaltwins and #computersimulations, this is easier than ever, and it is our shared responsibility to prove that every heart matters. 💟 #medtech #digitalhealth #clinicaltrials #virtonomy

With the recent wave of Return-to-Office policies that many companies are adopting, we continue to develop our solutions with a remote-first approach that enables our team to excel from anywhere in the world. 🌍 With team members spread across Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf), Portugal, the US, Ukraine, Belgium, and Poland, we’ve embraced a flexible approach that lets our experts work from wherever they feel most productive. This approach goes beyond just flexibility — it's about building a culture of trust, autonomy, and teamwork. We know that great ideas and innovation can come from any location, and giving our team the freedom to choose where they work, we’re encouraging both creativity and productivity. 🌟    To make sure the whole team is on the same page, we use: 🔑 Daily stand-ups – starting our day with a short meeting where team members say what they’re working on helps us align and ask for help or offer assistance; 🔑 Sprint demos – every 2 weeks (end of sprint), each team presents what their focus has been on the previous week to inform other teams; 🔑 Quarterly OKRs – every 3 months, each team presents their goals for the next quarter, which allows us to follow the roadmap and stick to our plans; 🔑 Fun team evenings – the whole team gathers to play a game together, chat, or have an elaborate crime dinner like in the screenshot below. 😎 While we love the flexibility of remote work, we also understand the value of in-person connections. Our Munich office serves as a hub for collaboration, and we regularly bring the entire team together for events like our annual Christmas and spring meetings, along with summer retreats. At Virtonomy, remote-first isn’t just about working from home—it’s about creating a space where our team can connect, grow, and innovate together, whether we’re sitting at a desk in Munich, a café in Lisbon, or a home office space in San Francisco. 💪 #medtech #digitalhealth #medtechstartup #clinicaltrials #remotefirst #companyculture

You are probably already aware that we are specializing in in-silico simulations and offer a huge database of virtual patients you can use for your virtual clinical trials. 🔝   But did you know that as part of our suite of services, we also offer 3D printed anatomical models to complement our virtual models? 🤔 We work with printing partners to deliver you models such as the one in the images, which have been produced for our customers. (Image 1: Right Atrium with Coronary Sinus; Images 2: Aorta and ventricle) These physical prototypes and surgical guides are tailored to each patient’s unique anatomy and provide a realistic simulation of cardiovascular structures for medical research and device development. This enables a seamless transition from digital design to tangible, patient-specific devices. How do we do this? There are different varieties you can choose from:   🔶 Material Extrusion – Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)  🔹 How It Works: FDM uses heated filament, drawn through a nozzle to build objects layer by layer.  🔹 Medical Applications: Common for creating surgical models and affordable, patient-specific prosthetics.  🔹 Challenges: Precision is limited by the nozzle size, making it less suitable for highly detailed models.   🔶 Binder Jetting  🔹 How It Works: Powder is bound together by a liquid binder, building the object layer by layer.  🔹 Medical Applications: Ideal for creating complex implants and anatomical models using metals and ceramics.  🔹 Pros: No support structures needed, enabling faster production.   🔶 Stereolithography (SLA)  🔹 How It Works: A laser cures liquid resin to create highly precise, smooth objects.  🔹 Medical Applications: It is used to fabricate patient-specific implantable devices – for example a tailored implant for facial reconstruction. 🔹 Challenges: Less mechanical strength.   🔶 Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)  🔹 How It Works: A laser fuses powder particles, forming strong, durable objects.  🔹 Medical Applications: It can be used for production of physical models for surgeries, prototypes for medical devices, and scaffolds for tissue engineering. 🔹 Challenges: Produces rougher surfaces, often requiring post-processing. ___   Looking back, it’s amazing to see how far this technology has come.   Kristian Debus, our Chief Commercial Officer here at Virtonomy tells us: "At the startup I worked at about 15 years ago, we bought an SLS printer, about as big as a garage, for $500K and spent a year producing almost nothing usable. It’s incredible to see how capable and affordable this technology is now!"  Today, 3D printing technology is not only more affordable but far more advanced, enabling life-saving innovations and transforming patient care around the globe.   If you have any questions, or would like to order a 3D printed model, contact us for pricing and more information. 📥   #MedTech #3DPrinting #PersonalizedHealthcare #Innovation #Virtonomy #digitalhealth #clinicaltrials

✨ Meet Our Amazing Team Member: Anastazja! ✨ Originally from Poland, Anastazja moved to Munich for her studies and quickly became part of the Virtonomy family. After completing her Master's degree in Computational Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), she joined Virtonomy full-time in July this year. Anastazja's journey with us started earlier, though—she worked as a student for a year and completed her Master's thesis under our supervision, focusing on computational methods for structural analysis. 💻 As a Simulation Engineer in the Simulation Team, Anastazja has already contributed to several R&D projects, including the development of a Finite Element Method (FEM) spine simulation as part of her thesis. She is now actively involved in creating tailored simulations for our customers and has recently begun working on a catheter insertion simulation. 🙌 Outside of work, Anastazja is an active and adventurous person. She enjoys a wide range of sports, including swimming, cycling, and hiking, and has recently taken up climbing. 🧗♀️ In her downtime, she loves cooking and unwinding with a good book. Although Anastazja has returned to Poland and now works remotely, she continues to be a vital part of the Virtonomy team. "The amazing thing about working at Virtonomy is that even though some of us work from different places, we make a great team with a fantastic atmosphere," she says. What drives Anastazja in her work is the versatility of the projects and the daily learning experience. “It’s fascinating how the solutions we create are revolutionizing the way medical devices are developed. I’m very happy that through my work, I can contribute to improving patient healthcare,” she adds. We’re thrilled to have Anastazja on board and look forward to her continued contributions to the future of medical device development! ❤️ #medtech #digitalhealth #startuplife #teamappreciation

Why should you invest in In Silico Technologies and incorporate them in your development process? 🤔 There are plenty of reasons, and more and more companies are getting on board. In Silico Testing is soon going to become a standard in medical device development, as an accompaniment, enhancement or substitute for in vitro and in vivo trials. And it is not only we that are claiming this, FDA and EU notified bodies have already recognized the immense capabilities these technologies have. ➡ Read more about the value proposition in our latest blog post here: https://lnkd.in/dhQMDtCG #clinicaltrials #digitaltwins #virtualpatients #medtech #digitalhealth #ists

Did you know that we have more than 130 digital patient twins with Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation in our database? 🗃 This means that if you're developing a Tricuspid Valve Replacement Device, you can get access to all these patients to perform worst case or average case analysis. Imagine validating your device design on 130 #virtualpatients, before even performing real-life implantation! 🤯 With precise and validated measurements of structures such as Tricuspid Annulus Plane, Right Atrium including the IVC and SVC, Right Ventricle and Pulmonary Valve, you can easily determine the most appropriate valve size. Being able to use different anatomies to validate the fit can help you investigate the effects of different device properties and boundary conditions. You can also take it one step further, and perform flow assessment compliant to DIN EN #ISO5840, and identify the risk for hemolysis or blood clotting. ➡ Interested to learn more? Schedule a free consultation with our team, or read more here: https://lnkd.in/etGdR8Zn #clinicaltrials #medtech #digitalhealth #tricuspidvalve #heartvalve #digitaltwins

Simple Complexity – Tech brought to you by Virtonomy 🗞 Anonymizing Patient Data 🩻   Welcome to our second post for our educational series Simple Complexity, where we make complex medical technologies easy to understand. At Virtonomy, we're passionate about making cutting-edge tech accessible, and today, we're diving into a critical aspect of patient data management: anonymization.   ---   ❓What is Anonymization, and Why is it Important?   In the medical field, protecting patient privacy is paramount. Every time a DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) file is created, it includes sensitive information about the patient, such as their name, age, date of birth, and other identifying details. To safeguard this data, it must be anonymized before it's shared or stored.   Anonymization means altering or removing personal identifiers so that the data can no longer be linked to an individual. This ensures that even if the data is accessed by unauthorized parties, the patient's identity remains protected.   ❓How Does Virtonomy's Anonymization Tool Work?   Our anonymization tool is designed to be both powerful and user-friendly. Here's a breakdown of how it works:   1.  DICOM File Structure:  A DICOM file is structured with tags, each containing specific pieces of information, such as patient's name, medical images, dates, or unique identifiers.   2.  Customizable Anonymization:  When you upload a DICOM file to our platform, you can choose which tags to anonymize. However, certain tags that contain highly sensitive information - like the patient's name, date of birth - are always anonymized automatically. Users cannot deselect these crucial tags to ensure maximum privacy.   3.  Data Replacement:  Once you hit the "Anonymize" button, our tool gets to work. It processes the selected tags, replacing their values with randomly generated data that matches the original format. For instance: -         A patient's name is swapped for a randomly generated one. -         Dates by new dates. -         Numeric values like age, height, and weight are slightly altered.   4.  Data is Anonymized Locally:  Your sensitive information is never transferred to our servers. The anonymization process happens entirely on your side, ensuring that only anonymized data is uploaded to our storage.   5.  Mapping for Traceability:  After anonymization, you have the option to download a mapping of the original unique identifiers to their anonymized versions. This allows you to trace back the data if needed, without compromising patient privacy.   Using our anonymizer, you can confidently share and store medical data, knowing that it complies with privacy regulations and protects patient confidentiality. ✅   Do you want to dive deeper into the technical aspects of DICOM files and how we use them to create our digital twins? 👇👇 Read this article: https://lnkd.in/dNXqxije   #MedTech #DICOM #digitalhealth #digitaltwins #clinicaltrials  

Seeing the critical points during device implantation has never been easier. Our latest update makes visualizing areas of high and low values possible directly in the software! 🎉 With this new feature, you can quickly focus on specific ranges you want to examine. Depending on your device type, you can look at: ▪ Stresses on the device/organs ▪ Strains ▪ Displacement ▪ Bending radius ▪ Acceleration ▪ Velocity ▪ Curvature Here’s what this means for you: 🔍 Focus better: Zero in on the critical areas, allowing for more detailed analysis and better decision making. ⏱ Save time: Quickly spot and fix potential issues, cutting down on manual revisions and number of iterations. 💡 Optimize designs: Get deeper insights into how your device performs, helping you improve more effectively. 🔄 Streamline workflow: Seamlessly fit this feature into your process, making everything run more efficiently. 📊 All the Data You Need: Access a wide range of outputs to ensure you have the complete picture for refining your designs. Our software keeps continually evolving to help medical device developers like you create safer and more effective cardiovascular devices. Ready to see it in action? Contact us for a demo and take your device development to the next level! 📥 #medtech #digitalhealth #medicalsimulation #clinicaltrials #digitaltwins #virtualpatients #3Dpatients

🎤 We are excited to announce that Kristian Debus, our Chief Commercial Officer at Virtonomy.io, will be speaking at the Orange County Regulatory Affairs Discussion Group's 30th Anniversary Annual Conference! Kristian will lead a panel on the role of computational modeling and simulation in medical device submissions, highlighting how in silico technologies can improve regulation and development. 📈 Today is the last day to secure your spot if you're in the area, or if you would like to tune in online. Don't miss this chance for meaningful discussions and networking with industry experts! Full agenda and more info here: https://lnkd.in/gMEYefwY