https://youtu.be/dDdPn8k0xXo However great your device design and technology may be, it still needs to work for the users, answer their needs, accommodate their constraints and expectations If you had a sense of what you needed to do, to take care of this, what would...
https://youtu.be/yYofOOBrc_s Coming up with a design for your medical device that can be manufactured, assembled at a low cost, whilst ensuring it does what users need it to do, safely and repeatedly, is one of the big challenges you’ll need to overcome If you could...
You’ve probably attended your share of industry conference over the years. You may have found some of them pedestrian, perhaps boring? So have we! Until last January. Our team were invited to the 19th Regulanet Conference, in Badenweiler, Germany. As new partners to...
Human Factors is key to your success in Medical Device Development. As a recognised device development discipline, Human Factors should follow a clearly defined methodology. If you are struggling to get to grips with incorporating Human Factors processes into your...
You’re running late, you’re hungry and won’t have another chance to pick up something to eat before your journey. There’s a busy food retailer nearby, and you go in to find something to tide you over, scanning the sandwiches, wraps and salads. A couple of the...
Medical devices, and combination products, are typically targeted at therapeutic areas with large patient populations, so recruitment is fairly straightforward. Usability studies recruit participants from groups of representative users, commonly from; Healthy, able...
Getting a device accepted by the NHS is often described as something of a "dark art", a mysterious journey into the unknown. Having a map for this journey would be an attractive proposition. To flesh out our map for the journey, we joined around 30 other industry...
There’s an often overlooked aspect of getting a medical device into the healthcare system (e.g. the NHS in the UK). An aspect that was revealed to those attending a recent Medilink East Midlands conference in Nottingham. An aspect known as “Patient Public Involvement”...
Medical devices, and combination products, are typically targetted at therapeutic areas with large patient populations, so recruitment is fairly straightforward. The usual state of affairs for Usability studies is to recruit participants from relatively...
Our team had to pleasure of, once again, attending Medilink East Midlands' Innovation Day earlier this month. Unusually for industry conferences, there's a broad mix of people attending Innovation Day, from academia, industry and the NHS, along with a variety of...
If you have ever been prescribed a medicine, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) are too complex for patients to readily understand…
We're pleased to be presenting again at the Medical Device School in London, UK, later in November. Matthew once again joins a panel of industry peers to provide delegates to the School with both an introduction to the world of Human Factors Engineering for Medical...