Developing medical devices for pediatrics brings both engineering and business challenges. The medical device industry is beginning to understand that kids are not simply smaller adults, but have unique design requirements. Unfortunately, major medtech companies just don’t know what to do about it. Read More
The Healing Innovation (HI) blog has spent the last year making the case for greater collaboration between the medical device industry and clinicians. HI, however, has also blogged extensively about the conflicts of interests created by clinicians becoming PR mouthpieces for new products and clinical trial results. Read More
Nurjana Bachman, PhD, from Boston Children’s Hospital has made the case that pharmaceutical companies are changing their approach to partnering with academic medicine and working as a team. How about medical device companies? Read More
I just found out, thanks to Thomas Sullivan at the POLICY AND MEDICINE website, that national leaders from all sectors of healthcare recently formed the National Dialogue for Healthcare Innovation (NDHI). At first, I thought this was another bureaucratic PR initiative or pharmaceutical lobbying ploy. But… I was surprised to read that they are actually making sense. If you are a physician involved in medical device development, you need to support the NDHI.
Are you a doctor with a great idea, but don’t have the technical skills or know-how to turn your concept into a working medical device? Think about finding an engineer in your area that has experience developing medical devices. Read More
