Medical Product Design
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The Right Medical Device Starts with a House of Quality Matrix
by Shane Fedon Posted Mar 10, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
When medical device companies start planning a new device, they often jump ahead and begin with the bells and whistles. They spec out flashy new features and plan out unexpected ways to execute elements that are ordinarily mundane. In doing so, these companies put the cart before the horse To ill [...]
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Design to Innovate — Not Just to Manufacture
by Kevin Larmer Posted Mar 02, 2020 In Engineering, Medical Product Design
The development of medical devices can follow many different paths depending on a myriad of inputs: new technology, cost, market adoption, etc. At Mindflow, we see many projects that focus on two of these paths: products focused on efficiency in manufacturing and those focused on design innovati [...]
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Why You Need a Strategic Facilitator to Guide Your Medical Device Development Project
by Chris Ross Posted Feb 24, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
For many companies, the first step in producing the right medical device is hiring the right design and engineering partner. In fact, hiring the wrong one can be catastrophic. The unfortunate thing is, you might not know you’ve made the wrong choice until it’s too late. The reason [...]
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Which Regulatory Requirements Apply to My Medical Device?
by Andy Moulds Posted Feb 11, 2020 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
The medical device industry is highly regulated. For good reason. These regulations exist to protect patients and consumers by ensuring the safety and efficacy of medical devices. Of course, medical device companies want to produce devices that are safe and effective. But they don’t [...]
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Don’t Just Listen to Your Users — Watch Them, Too
by Paul Klock Posted Jan 28, 2020 In Human Factors & Usability Testing, Medical Product Design
It goes without saying that medical devices should be both safe and effective. But those qualities are really just the baseline. If a product is safe and effective but doesn’t actually solve users’ problems, it won’t matter. To put it another way, the real measure of a medical device’s succe [...]
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After the Designs are Done: Why Your Medical Device Needs an Agency’s Support Phase
by John Salisbury Posted Jan 02, 2020 In Engineering, Medical Product Design
If you’re considering partnering with an agency to help you realize your vision for a new medical device, you already know you need outside expertise for the design phase of your project. But what happens after everyone signs off on a final version of the completed designs? Whether your product is [...]
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Demystifying the Human Factors Plan for Medical Device Projects
by Chris Ross Posted Dec 17, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
Over the past few years the FDA has increased their emphasis on the importance of applying sound human factors procedures during medical device development. That means they’ve increased their scrutiny of submissions and their expectations for how medical device makers will ensure the safety of peo [...]
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The 3 Key Ingredients Behind Every Successful Medical Device
by Chris Ross Posted Dec 10, 2019 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
When medical device companies set out to produce a new product, they are often driven primarily by one of two things: business goals or technological innovation. These are necessary elements of any well-conceived medical device. But neither should be pursued in isolation. In fact, when it comes to d [...]
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The Top 5 Questions You Should Ask Before Developing a Medical Device
by Paul Klock Posted Nov 27, 2019 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
Medical device companies must be future-oriented and innovative in order to remain competitive. They must constantly consider how to bring new devices to market that add value and meet users’ needs. [...]
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Speed Bumps Ahead: Medical Device Development and the Risks of Moving Too Fast
by Paul Klock Posted Nov 20, 2019 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
Competition in the medical device industry is already cutthroat. But an influx of investor-backed startups means the pressure is only ratcheting up. The investors who back these startups often don't have a background in medical devices. And they expect to capture a speedy return on their investment. [...]
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5 Top Tips to Create Effective Quick Guides for Complex Medical Products
by John Salisbury Posted Oct 29, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Insights & Design Research
The FDA recommends that all medical products with some level of complexity include appropriate instructions for use (IFU). Doing so ensures the user will be able to fully understand how to utilize the product. While the FDA’s recommendations are geared toward easy comprehension, IFUs are seldom ea [...]
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Webinar: How to avoid the common mistakes of formative evaluations to meet user needs
by Chris Ross Posted Oct 21, 2019 In Human Factors & Usability Testing, Medical Product Design
You want the healthcare products that you design to improve people's lives. But that extends beyond the patients you aim to heal. Other than clinical efficacy, a medical device’s ability to meet its users’ needs is the most important predictor of success. For that reason, medical device developm [...]
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Marrying Software and Hardware: The Pressures and Pain Points of Building a Software-Driven Medical Device
by Chris Ross Posted Oct 21, 2019 In Industrial Design, Medical Product Design
Medical devices are increasingly built around software. Of course, almost any medical device with a battery or power cord has a software component of some kind. But as more and more tech companies enter the medical space, the role of software in medical devices is changing. Today, it’s more common [...]
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Designing for Two: Balancing the Needs of Prescribers and Patients for Home Health Medical Devices
by Paul Klock Posted Sep 27, 2019 In Design Strategy, Medical Product Design
The most successful medical devices are those designed specifically with users’ needs in mind. That’s a pretty basic tenet of product design, right? But what happens when a device has more than one group of users, each with a competing set of needs? If your home health medical device is prescrib [...]
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The Value of Well-Crafted User Interface Design
by John Salisbury Posted Sep 17, 2019 In Medical Product Design, User Interface Design
Well-crafted interface design transcends being just a pretty face for software applications. Companies often put less importance on the user interface design of a software application than the functional software developm [...]
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