Building a Musculoskeletal Health Innovation Ecosystem

Musculoskeletal health affects how we move, work, and play. We urgently need hard tech innovations, from smarter implants to wearable diagnostics. IMPACT bridges the gap between unmet medical needs and the technologies that can solve them.

How We'll Do It

Identify problems and creating solutions

Community: We have the connections, but we don’t have all the answers. IMPACT will:

• Listen to what the community needs and then identifying who within our ecosystem can help solve these challenges.
• Ensure ongoing stakeholder alignment on use-inspired projects.

R&D: Through our deep bench of regional academic and industry connections and cutting edge-technologies, IMPACT will deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to solve today’s musculoskeletal challenges. Potential projects include:

• Digital twins to detect operational anomalies in orthopedic equipment.
• Integrated biosensors to monitor predictive analytics and support clinical decision-making, early disease detection, and personalized treatment strategies.

Workforce: Whether it’s training, upskilling, or educating Indiana workers, IMPACT addresses the gap between industry needs and workforce skills by:

• Growing and strengthening the pool of skilled workers.
• Focusing on three main areas of workforce development: K-12 STEM opportunities, work-based learning for high school and college students, and training or reskilling the current workforce.