R&D & Design
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R&D & Design | Surgical
Sparking Innovation as We Struggle to Find the New Normal
The goal is to find the best ideas to support orthopedic patients adjusting to additional pain and immobility while they wait for elective surgeries.Dawn A. Lissy, Founder & President, Empirical 06.04.20
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R&D & Design
Disposable Design: Consider All Interfaces
The disposable component is becoming more challenging as products get smaller and more complex.Will DeMore, Mechanical Engineer, Key Technologies Inc. 06.04.20
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R&D & Design
Human Factors Activities at a Safe Distance
How to keep medical device development on track during the COVID-19 pandemic.Online Exclusives Timothy Visich and Kate MacNamee, Program Managers, Senior Human Factors Engineers at Farm, a Flex company 06.03.20
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Digital Health | R&D & Design
The Four Steps of Design Acceleration
How to meet the needs of manufacturers, clinicians, healthcare workers, and patients in the ‘new normal.’Online Exclusives Ken Olewiler, Founder and Managing Director of Punchcut 06.01.20
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R&D & Design
6 Questions To Ask When Developing a Wearable Medical Device
How to design around skin—the unique substrate your device will adhere to.Online Exclusives Del R. Lawson, Ph.D., and Kris Godbey 05.28.20
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R&D & Design
Medtech R&D Process Aided by Big Data, AI
Digital health allows researchers and engineers to incorporate data sets of user behaviors into their prototypes during the early phases of R&D.Online Exclusives Michael Barbella, Managing Editor 05.13.20
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R&D & Design
Weiss-Aug Group Launches New Division
Expands its R&D and automation capabilities.Weiss-Aug Group 05.07.20
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R&D & Design
Problem-Solving is Key to Effective R&D
A better understanding of a medical issue enables companies to drive innovation efforts towards holistic solutions.Online Exclusives Michael Barbella, Managing Editor 05.05.20
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R&D & Design
Current State of (Design) Mind
Medtech designers have an array of new tools to use for medical device development, enabling better solutions for healthcare.Mark Crawford, Contributing Writer 05.01.20
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R&D & Design
COVID-19 Pandemic Brings Fast-Track Innovation to Forefront
A look at the ways in which The Innovation Institute and its community is introducing new technologies for the effort against the virus.Online Exclusives Joe Randolph, President and CEO, The Innovation Institute 04.28.20
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R&D & Design
Medtech R&D Must Address Outcomes in Value-Based Care
Clinical requirements are no longer the only cornerstone of medical device development.Online Exclusives Michael Barbella, Managing Editor 04.24.20
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R&D & Design
Smaller Businesses Beget Better Innovation
Despite their global sales reach, large firms tend to focus on nurturing existing product lineups.Online Exclusives Michael Barbella, Managing Editor 04.16.20
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R&D & Design
Examining the Usability of Medical Software
Developers need to consider the ‘human factor’ when it comes to testing medical device software.Bruce Johnston, Senior Software Engineering Specialist, MedAcuity Software 04.01.20
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R&D & Design
Why Outsourcing Is in: Piecing Out Projects Makes Sense
Getting outside help is a trend both large and small medical device companies are following as outsourcing engineering services continues to gain traction.Dawn A. Lissy, President & Founder, Empirical 04.01.20
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R&D & Design
Top 10 Considerations for Medtech Inventors
If you or your employer is interested in protecting an invention, then filing a patent application may be the way to go.Ryan Connell and Doug Portnow, Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner 04.01.20
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R&D & Design
Supercharge Medical Device Innovation Using Effective User Preference Studies
User preference and evaluation studies have been a mainstay design tool for medical device development for decades.Philip Remedios, Principal, Director of Design & Development, BlackHägen Design 04.01.20
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R&D & Design
Rice Joins U of U-Led Human Factors Consortium
Brings new expertise to the consortium, led by University of Utah.University of Utah 03.30.20
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R&D & Design
Pediatric Medical Device Pitch Competition Announces 30 Semi-Finalists
Thirty innovators will compete on March 23, 2020 in a virtual showcase.National Capital Consortium of Pediatric Device Innovators 03.19.20
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R&D & Design
Four Considerations for Developers of Next-Generation Combination Products
Bringing together real-time monitoring, telemedicine, AI, interventions, and pharmaceuticals into a single device produces a number of potential pitfalls.Mark Goodman and Barry Thompson, Baker & McKenzie LLP 03.04.20
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R&D & Design
The New Source of Medtech R&D
Do alliances between academia and the medical device industry represent the future of research and development in the medical device industry?Sean Fenske, Editor-in-Chief 03.04.20
