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https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2021/06/21/designing-safer-patient-operated-medical-devices/June 21, 2021- There are real benefits to rigorously integrating human factors engineering —or usability design—into the development of patient or end user operated devices used in home-based healthcare and wearables for real-time monitoring and drug delivery....
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https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2021/04/30/unlocking-the-future-for-patient-use-combination-devices/April 30, 2021- This article highlights the benefits of rigorously integrating usability design into the development of patient or layperson-operated combination devices used in home-based healthcare....
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https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2021/04/01/is-a-medical-robot-really-a-robot/April 1, 2021- First of all, there are no true medical robots; none of the systems out there called medical robots are autonomous with regard to duplicating human activity, and few are even semi-autonomous....
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https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2020/09/03/the-human-factors-of-aesthetics-2/September 3, 2020- Often the aesthetic of a device or system experience is considered a commercial objective and even a tertiary, superficial aspect of design development in the healthcare ecosystem. ...
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https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2020/05/08/current-state-of-design-mind/May 8, 2020- It is an exciting time to be a medical device design engineer. Development opportunities abound as medical device manufacturers (MDMs) seek to make smaller, more complex, and more functional devices....
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https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2020/04/07/supercharge-medical-device-innovation-using-effective-user-preference-studies/April 7, 2020- User preference and evaluation studies have been a mainstay design tool for medical device development for decades. To veteran engineers, this design tool is simply good practice....
Best Practices for Industrial Design in the Medical Device Space | Post
https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2019/10/16/best-practices-for-industrial-design-in-the-medical-device-space/October 16, 2019- With close to 20 years of combined consumer and medical design experience, Bartosz has contributed to all phases of product design from observational research, through concept development and testing, to mechanical design for manufacture....
What Is Human Factors Engineering and Why Is It Important by Rich Newman | Post
https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2019/09/23/what-is-human-factors-engineering-and-why-is-it-important-by-rich-newman/September 23, 2019- It is becoming common knowledge Human Factors Engineering (HFE), also known as Usability Engineering (UE), is required as part of most medical device development. ...
Structuring Successful Outsourced R&D Programs by Philip Remedios | Post
https://www.blackhagendesign.com/2019/01/05/structuring-successful-outsourced-rd-programs-by-philip-remedios/January 5, 2019- As a veteran consultant, Philip wrote this article from an outside-in perspective to empower corporate R&D managers to leverage one of the most powerful industry tools. While one should always retain core technology in-house (unless a startup business looking to acquire IP), correctly structured, managed, and funded outsourcing can supercharge...