Medical Product Design
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What Happens to Your Medical Device When the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization Ends?
by Carmen Cumming Posted Jul 23, 2021 In Healthcare Trends, Medical Product Design
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA has issued hundreds of Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) to medical devices. EUAs allowed each of these products to fast track their approval in order to serve the public during a tumultuous, unprecedented, and sometimes dangerous time. But now that COV [...]
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Human Factors Engineering vs. UX: Are They Really All That Different?
by Chris Ross Posted Jul 20, 2021 In Design Strategy, Human Factors & Usability Testing, Medical Product Design
From a medical device development perspective, the goal of human factors engineering, usability, and user experience activities is the same: To release a product that meets users’ needs in a safe, straightforward, effective, and delightful way. But the technical definitions of these terms can v [...]
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6 Ways a Consumer Health Product Can Improve Quality of Life
by Chris Ross Posted Jul 12, 2021 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
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Understanding Finite Element Analysis and Its Benefits for Your Medical Device
by David Giuntoli Posted Jun 25, 2021 In Engineering, Medical Product Design
There are products from our grandparents’ and even great-grandparents’ eras that are still in use today. In their time, technology didn’t advance nearly as quickly, so products were expected to last a lifetime — and they were built accordingly. Everything was "built to last". Today’s de [...]
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The First Steps to Medical Device Risk Management: Selecting Your Team and Identifying Hazards
by Andy Moulds Posted Jun 11, 2021 In Medical Product Design
Risk management is a crucial aspect of medical device development. You need to account for and mitigate the risks associated with your product early on, so it’s safe for users and passes increasingly stringent FDA requirements. And what happens if you don’t properly account for risk in the ea [...]
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Why Your Medical Device Company Should Develop Accessible Products — and How
by Carmen Cumming Posted Jun 01, 2021 In Healthcare Trends, Medical Product Design
Medical device designers often overlook accessibility when creating products. Getting a medical device to market is complex, costly, and time consuming — there’s simply no bandwidth to consider accessibility in the midst of an already rigorous process. What’s more, many people think accessi [...]
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The FDA Updates You Need to Consider for Your Next-Generation Medical Device
by Andy Moulds Posted May 20, 2021 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1621633944440{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]Medical device regulation gets more stringent all the time. It’s harder to get FDA approval now than it was just five years ago. For good reason. All that to say, as you’re developing a next-gen [...]
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Why Common Plastics Are Failing in Hospital Settings
by Andy Moulds Posted Apr 28, 2021 In Medical Product Design
Patient safety and reducing hospital stays is the priority for healthcare institutions and one of the focus areas is preventing patients from getting HAIs (Healthcare-associated infections) during their stay. These HAIs are the responsibility of the institution and have to be treated and paid for by [...]
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How GD&T Makes Better Medical Products Possible
by David Giuntoli Posted Apr 24, 2021 In Engineering, Medical Product Design
Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) is intimidating even for trained engineers to pick up. GD&T has a set of vocabulary that is initially impenetrable and throws out a lot of traditional drawing practices. Once you get past all the new terms and how they interact with one anothe [...]
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Whitepaper: The Ultimate Playbook for Launching a Medical Device Startup and Bringing Your Product to Market
by Chris Ross Posted Apr 23, 2021 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
If you’re reading this, you probably have a viable idea for a new medical device — and that’s exciting. You’re ready to launch a startup and get your product into the hands of the users who need it most. But beware. Bringing a medical device to market is a years-long process full of compl [...]
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Save Time & Money by Implementing GD&T in Your Medical Product Design
by David Giuntoli Posted Apr 15, 2021 In Engineering, Medical Product Design
No matter how precise the manufacturing process, there will inevitably be some degree of variation in the components that make up your medical product. All the parts that comprise the finished device will be minutely different from one another and from the spec. Even the most meticulous engineering [...]
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How the Switch to Telehealth Impacts Medical Device Design
by Carmen Cumming Posted Mar 10, 2021 In Healthcare Trends, Medical Product Design
One of the latest and biggest shifts in healthcare has been toward virtual health and remote health networks. This big change in the larger healthcare picture has significant impact on the wider industry and all those connected to it — including medical device companies. If treating patients ha [...]
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Preserve Your Device’s Value Proposition: Bridging the Marketing vs Development Gap
by Ryan Held Posted Feb 11, 2021 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
As a medical device marketer, you go to great pains to identify a unique value proposition for each new device your company creates. But — and here's the rub — by the time a medical device goes to market, the end results don't always match your original intentions. Designing medical devices [...]
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5 Reasons to Use Medical Graphical User Interface Design Specialists Instead of Generalists
by Rick Blanchard Posted Feb 04, 2021 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
Should any digital design agency develop your medical device user interface? In a single word, no! That may seem too definite a statement to make, yet it is the correct answer. For several decades, the medical and healthcare industry has undergone a transformation in its adoption of digital [...]
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How to Create a Winning Usability Engineering File for FDA Submissions
by Chris Ross Posted Jan 15, 2021 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
There is a good chance that your medical device development team isn’t fully considering the needs of your clients when making key design decisions. While all the obvious information may be neatly organized in a product requirements document supporting your FDA submission, there’s more to it tha [...]
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