Medical Product Design
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Paul Klock Joins MindFlow Design as Design Director
by Chris Ross Posted Feb 10, 2016 In Medical Product Design
Paul Klock has recently joined the MindFlow Design team as Design Director. In this role, he will lead our research, design and human factors groups to create
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MindFlow Design at the MD&M West Expo
by Chris Ross Posted Feb 05, 2016 In Medical Product Design
The MindFlow Design team will be attending the Medical Design and Manufacturing show in Anaheim on Tuesday, February 9, 2016.
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Oral Roberts University Requires Fitbits for Freshmen
by Chris Ross Posted Feb 03, 2016 In Medical Product Design
Many college freshman are warned about the dreaded "freshman fifteen," the extra weight that students can gain when living on their own and making adult choices for the first time. One university has taken d [...]
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Moving Care from the Hospital to the Home
by Chris Ross Posted Jan 28, 2016 In Medical Product Design
The University of Southern California has unveiled an exciting innovation in healthcare technology, t [...]
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BioFire Submits FilmArray® Torch to FDA for Clearance to Use with FilmArray® Respiratory Panel
by Chris Ross Posted Jan 25, 2016 In Medical Product Design
Cost-effective medical device design has allowed BioFire Diagnostics to develop a family of diagnostic products which will be able to fully integrate and scale to meet the needs of hospital laboratories of any size. [...]
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Medical Design Trends for 2016
by Chris Ross Posted Jan 22, 2016 In Medical Product Design
The new year presents new challenges and opportunities for the medical design field. A number of trends are changing how
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“The New Old” demands better medical device design
by Chris Ross Posted Jan 21, 2016 In Medical Product Design
A clinic is the first place you might expect to see devices that look, well, clinical. However, the growth of aging populations in the United States has brought more health care into patients' homes. Medi [...]
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Designing for the Digital Health Revolution
by Chris Ross Posted Jan 21, 2016 In Medical Product Design
Health innovator and social entrepreneur Paul Sonnier defines the digital health movement as "the convergence of [...]
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GreatCall Lively Device Helps Seniors and Their Families
by Chris Ross Posted Jan 15, 2016 In Medical Product Design
Medical products should provide the right services for the user at an affordable price. Great design i [...]
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Five Questions to Ask When Hiring a Product Design Firm
by Chris Ross Posted Dec 01, 2015 In Medical Product Design
Your reputation, track record, and capacity for repeat successes are everything in the corporate world. You simply can’t afford to hire a product design firm and have things go south midway through a project. The responsibility of choosing a strategic development partner should not be taken lightl [...]
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Entrepreneurs Need Design Education
by Chris Ross Posted Nov 17, 2015 In Medical Product Design
The UCSD Design Lab brought a mix of 250 designers and entrepreneurs to the New Children’s Museum in downtown San Diego last week. Dr. Don Norman, the father of human-centered design and lab founder, convened the event. I was among a handful of design community leaders asked to discuss relations b [...]
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The Business Risk of an Unbalanced Development Team
by Chris Ross Posted Nov 03, 2015 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
We are currently going through the ISO 13485 and 9001 certification process which includes fairly intensive training sessions with our consultants. The final exercise was a simple four-question personality test for our executive team whose results proved eerily accurate across the board. The point o [...]
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Do Your Products Speak the Same Design Language?
by Chris Ross Posted Oct 01, 2015 In Design Strategy, Industrial Design, Medical Product Design
In touring a Fortune 100 medical device manufacturer’s headquarters recently, I was most impressed by the way they showcased all of their products in simulated hospital rooms. These included a nursing station, an intensive care unit, an operating room, and a pharmacy. It was so real I expected a g [...]
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Introducing The Zero Patient Engagement Model
by Chris Ross Posted Sep 01, 2015 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
The current US healthcare system transformation underway is an evolution being mistaken for a revolution. We are shifting from a physician to a patient centered system, and the idea of increasing Patient Engagement is at the heart of it all. Spend five minutes on Google researching the term “Pa [...]
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6 Ways a Consumer Health Product Can Improve Quality of Life
by Chris Ross Posted Aug 03, 2015 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
Have you heard of the new smartphone ultrasound reader called the MobiUS SP1 by Mobisante? This truly amazing product consists of a small device that plugs into a smartphone. It allows anyone to diagnose or monitor a medical condition and share the data remotely with a clinician. This device has [...]
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MindFlow Design is a leading medical product development firm for Medical, Life Sciences, and Consumer Health Companies and is based in Carlsbad, CA. We aspire to introduce powerful, intuitive healthcare technologies to the world.
