Can a Pillow Be a Medical Device?
The MedCline pillow is designed to relieve nighttime reflux.
How a New Sensor Can Help You Make a Baby
EarlySense debuted a contact-free fertility and period tracker based on its under-the-mattress health monitoring platform.
The Human Experience: How Patients Inspire Innovation and Why Medtech Should Listen
Rather than look at patient-inspired innovation as a problem or an expensive change, the medtech industry can see the shift as an opportunity to help people live healthier lives.
Human Factors for Home Use Medical Devices—the Home Is Not the Same as the Hospital
Here are the human factors issues to consider when designing devices for home use versus designing for medical facilities.
The Power Struggle behind Wearable Medical Device Design
Device designers must balance several factors in selecting the best battery for their specific device design.
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The 4 Essential Elements of Device Design Today
The 2017 Medical Design Excellence Awards finalists prioritized ease of use, patient centricity, and increasing value to the healthcare system.
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Measure Biomarkers with a Wearable Device? No Sweat
Researchers have built a device to induce perspiration and measure health indicators like blood glucose on demand.This wearable device, developed by Stanford University researchers, is designed to extract and analyze sweat to monitor health and disease.
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Why You Must Know the Difference Between ‘Intended Use’ and ‘Indications for Use’
‘Intended use’ and ‘indications for use’ are two terms that are often mistakenly treated as interchangeable.
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Let’s Design for People as Consumers, Not Patients
Personal medical devices should be designed to be as intuitive to use as consumer products—without training sessions or thick instruction manuals.
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper: Chip Technology for Medical Devices
Silicon technology is one of the most promising solutions for low-cost, sensitive, and specific measurements of a large number of biomarkers.
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