Successful new medical devices hinge on the designer’s understanding of the specific requirements of the procedures they support, including factors like usage frequency and duration. This is ...

Medical device design and development is a process that helps to ensure devices that go to market are safe, effective, marketable, and profitable. The process is a blueprint of the phases needed to ...

Designers and engineers have often looked to the environment and how Mother Nature has accomplished phenomenal design solutions for inspiration over the ages. Perhaps all that is new about this ...

In the medical device industry, usability plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and effectiveness of highly complex medical products. The IEC 62366-1:2015 standard, which focuses on the ...

Medtech design engineers these days are challenged to make medical and dental devices that are smaller and portable yet do much more than ever before—process data, connect to the cloud, and utilize AI ...

Secure by design didn’t just pop up in the medical device industry with the update to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) guidance on cybersecurity recommendations. However, its inclusion in this ...

Touchscreen interface adoption has exploded, most notably in the tablet and mobile phone markets, but also in an array of consumer devices, from automotive navigation systems and industrial ...

Medical devices encompass a range of products, from ultrasound equipment and implantable devices to home blood glucose meters and fitness trackers. Each application calls for different requirements, ...

Creating a sensor-based IoT edge device is challenging, due to the multiple design domains involved. But, creating an edge device that combines the electronics using the traditional CMOS IC flow and a ...

Last week I was lucky enough to attend Device Design Day in San Francisco. This annual one-day conference is mostly for designers who create consumer devices and the software that runs on them, but ...