June 1, 2010
Features
Fast-track innovations ahead for interface design
Today’s intuitive touch screens and icons are minimizing training expenses and impacting the outcomes of procedures, as well as providing effective ways for differentiating devices...
Wireless provides human-centered design opportuinities
A new era of consumer-driven medical products is underway that promises to change the way healthcare is administered...
Explicit-based modeling advances medical-device design
Software with what’s called an explicit-modeling approach lets device designers work directly with geometries on-the-fly without worrying about underlying constraints...
Engineering human factors is critical
Strong implementation of human factors principals, processes, tools, and techniques by designers and management alike is a pathway to successful medical device development...
Ergonomics drives patient-care cart design
The design of a breakthrough patient-care cart to be used by nurses and doctors presented the engineers at Howard Medical, Ellisvills, MS, with a mechanical nightmare...
Rapid prototyping for micromolded parts
Which rapid prototyping technique works best for micromolded components?...
Editorial
Wanted: MSC West Presenters
Are you or someone from your firm an expert on one or more of the following topics?...
News Watch
AdvaMed and Eucomed commit to advance compliance globally
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) and the European Medical Technology Industry Association (Eucomed) concluded their trans-Atlantic statement on ethical interactions between medical technology companies...
Neonatal research expanded via NIH grant
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant will help expand neonatal research by Indianapolis-based SonarMed and developed by George R. Wodicka...
Industry Viewpoint
Help wanted: Designers, OEMs, toolmakers and contract manufacturers willing to collaborate
We know we always should, but we don’t always. I’m talking early-design efforts involving all of us...
Medical Manufacturing Technology
‘Designershive’ blends injection molding and industrial design
For a peek into how an Asian medical-device firm might innovate, consider the example of Meiban in Singapore...
R&D Notebook
The ABCs of NDAs
Flossing your teeth can be tedious work — it takes self-discipline...
The Art of Motion Control
Remote motor system drives tissue removal system
Fibroids affect more than 30% of women in the U.S. according to the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk...
Innovations
A hospital bed that speeds healing
The VersaCare bed from the Hill-Rom Corp, Batesville, IN, helps patients heal faster and makes it easier for hospital personnel staff...
Products & Services
Hybrid coupling combines fluidics and electronics
Connector integrates fluidics and electronics into a single connection point, thus eliminating the need for multiple connections while simplifying the user interface...
SiC abrasive papers increase remove rate by up to 20%
Testing and QA/QC facilities with bottlenecks or a need to increase productivity may benefit from CarbiMet2 silicon carbide grinding paper...
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