BCB Medical at the NOF Congress 2026 in Copenhagen

BCB Medical’s Tuomas Kalliomäki and Petteri Vuokko will attend the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation (NOF) Congress in Copenhagen on 11–13 November 2026. They look forward to meeting orthopaedic professionals from across the Nordic countries and discussing how structured clinical data can support better orthopaedic care.

BCB Medical offers a comprehensive Orthopaedic Suite – a connected set of Clinical Information Management Systems covering a wide range of orthopaedic specialties. One essential part of it, the KIDS Fracture Tool for paediatric fracture care, will be presented at the congress.

KIDS Fracture Tool showcased on Thursday 12 November

Topi Laaksonen, orthopaedic surgeon from HUS New Children’s Hospital, will showcase the KIDS Fracture Tool for paediatric fracture care on Thursday 12 November, 14:45–15:30 (local time). Laaksonen is the lead author of a 2026 Acta Orthopaedica study of 10,144 children’s fractures treated at the hospital.

The KIDS Fracture Tool is an electronic fracture treatment, quality and registry tool developed by HUS New Children’s Hospital and BCB Medical. Since 2014, every paediatric fracture treated at the hospital – around 2,000 a year – has been recorded in it systematically: patient demographics, cause of injury, anatomical location, fracture-specific details (ICD-10 code, closed, open or pathological fracture or re-fracture, and Peterson classification of growth plate injuries), treatment method, interventions and complications.

The tool gives paediatric fracture teams these benefits:

• Every fracture, recorded the same way – the prospectively maintained registry covers all fractures, not just selected patient groups. The study cohort of 10,144 fractures gave what the authors call robust data for assessing care quality.
• Quality measured beyond speed – alongside surgical timing, the tool captures complications, reoperations and guardian-reported satisfaction. The authors conclude that these broader measures give a more comprehensive and clinically meaningful picture of care quality.
• Standardised, comparable outcomes – standard instruments such as the modified Clavien–Dindo–Sink complication classification and the MyHealth questionnaire, distributed through the KIDS Fracture Tool, make results consistent and comparable across procedures and institutions.
• Open, transparent reporting – HUS publishes its paediatric fracture treatment results on the hospital’s website. To the authors’ knowledge, no other institution currently publishes paediatric fracture outcomes on a regular and transparent basis.
• A basis for benchmarking between hospitals – the study proposes core quality domains for paediatric fracture care. In the Nordic countries, better outcomes at one hospital can serve as an example and an incentive for others to improve.
• Research from everyday care – because data is collected in daily clinical work, a dataset of more than 10,000 fractures was available for research without separate manual data collection.

The study, based on KIDS Fracture Tool data from 2018–2022, concludes that surgical treatment of supracondylar humerus and femoral shaft fractures was performed safely and effectively, and that nerve injuries and postoperative infections were very rare. The low rates of unplanned reoperations and deep infections compare favourably with published data:

Read more: Safe and effective paediatric fracture care at HUS New Children’s Hospital (BCB case study) and Treatment and outcomes of fractures in children: a registry-based cohort study of 10,144 fractures (Laaksonen et al., Acta Orthopaedica 2026; 97: 383–387).

Meet us in Copenhagen

Are you attending the NOF Congress? Meet Tuomas Kalliomäki and Petteri Vuokko to explore how BCB Orthopaedic Suite can help your organisation improve orthopaedic care through structured clinical data, seamless integrations, patient-reported outcomes and AI-assisted insights. Join the KIDS Fracture Tool session on Thursday 12 November at 14:45, or contact us to book a meeting in advance.