DfM and Product Development for Micro Medical Device Applications
Design for manufacturing (DfM) is a huge focus for the medical device sector today, and it becomes an ever more important consideration.
Wearable Sensor Could Guide Precision Drug Dosing
For some of the powerful drugs used to fight infection and cancer, there’s only a small difference between a healing dose and a dose that’s large enough to cause dangerous side effects.
How Top Trends in Cleaning are Impacting Medical Device Design
Ongoing advances in medical device design are meeting patients’ demands for more portable and wearable technology. Bulky external health devices, like ECG monitors, spinal stimulators, and insulin pumps, are now slim and discrete. The patient benefits of these advances can be life-changing with improved physical comfort and mental well-being. However, for manufacturers, it is a challenge to design and build these new miniaturized complex devices.
Trends in Medical Technology for 2023
Here are some of these technological advancements that are expected to have an impact
Steerable Soft Robots Could Enhance Medical Applications
The researchers created the fibers with the thermal drawing process commonly used to produce fiber optic cables, similar to pulling a long string of cheese from a fondue and letting it harden. Material choice was critical, with elastomers.
9 Challenges Facing Device Manufacturers & How to Minimize Them
To optimize the product change workflow, it’s essential for these various functions to integrate their actions. This integration allows them to implement a rugged solution to overcome the challenges and move the product modifications forward to allow global distribution and importation of the finished manufactured product.
Embedded Intelligence and Connectivity: High-Performance Modules for Mixed-Critical Applications
AI is currently the major driver of medical advances in diagnostic imaging and treatment.
New Device Developed to Non-Invasively Measure Cervical Nerve Activity
An engineering-physician team at University of California San Diego has developed a device to non-invasively measure cervical nerve activity that could potentially inform and improve treatments for sepsis and mental health conditions.
UCSD researchers develop wearable ultrasound device
Engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) developed a wearable ultrasound device for assessing heart function and structure.
What’s Trending in the World of Medtech Materials
Klein spoke ahead of the show about what participants can expect from the panel. (Editor’s note: Responses are from Klein’s personal perspective as a medical materials engineer, and not as an official representative of AtriCure or SPE.)