October 1, 2009
Features
Rapid prototyping for orthopedics
The development of a new orthopedic device from drawing board to manufacturing typically takes months. Involving high-precision design work, and subject...
Healthcare reform calls for proactive IP portfolios
The flipside of the headline is that even without healthcare reform, proactive IP portfolios are important for medical-device companies facing pricing...
How marketing, licensing, and technology factors into patent litigation
In U.S. patent litigation, courts award infringement damages as lost profits or reasonable royalties, or both. Recent cases involving medical devices...
Design innovations require patents or do they?
Those involved in the design and development of tomorrow's medical devices must take into account the intellectual property associated with their innovations....
Designing portable ultrasound devices
A non-invasive imaging tool, portable ultrasound equipment provides a good way for emergency personnel to quickly diagnose the injuries of victims of...
Editorial
Obesity is big opportunity
Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos “Toby” Cosgrove recently made headlines for his remarks about obesity when he told a New York Times reporter that if it were up to him, and if there weren’t legal issues, he would not only stop hiring smokers (the Clinic has), he would also stop hiring obese people...
Articles
Connecting tubing with magnets
Current hardware used to connect tubing to equipment or other tubing requires healthcare personnel to turn them, thereby screwing the hardware together....
Business News from Contract Manufacturers
Microchip announces Cash for Clunkers Microchip Technology's (microchip.com) Cash for Clunkers development-tool exchange program, provides embedded designers...
Computed Tomography Advances for 3d Scanning
The use of computed tomography (CT) which uses a series of 2D X-ray images taken at specific intervals around an entire structure-has grown tremendously...
Healthcare Trends are calling for Advanced Data Storage
Accelerated adoption of digital imaging products today accounts for a major portion of healthcare spending - more than $9.2 billion in 2008 according...
Achieving SBS Validation
Validating an Sterile Barrier System package in accordance with ISO 11607 calls for close communication with key departments including, but not limited...
Solution-Oriented Advancements
Plastic-enabled solutions for today's medical devices are resulting from detailed databases, opportunities for inter-material substitutions, and continuous...
The ABCs of Metal Injection Molding
Since the commercialization of metal injection molding (MIM) in the mid-1970s, the technology has grown in sophistication to become a leading manufacturing...
Optimizing Cable & Harness Design
Cables and harnesses are often the last components to be designed into medical equipment. Yet, in order to properly address functionality, quality, and...
Executing Extrusion R&D Trials
There are probably as many possible combinations of variables to consider when planning a research and development extrusion trial as there are ideas...
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