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	<description>The Website for Physician Inventors</description>
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		<title>Pediatric Medical Device Innovation</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/05/14/pediatric-medical-device-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t know what to do about it. Very few commercial endeavors, with the exception of Orthopediatrics and a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Device Fast Failure</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/04/24/medical-device-fast-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all read entrepreneurial experts push the idea of allowing yourself to fail.  They even want you to do it fast.  Basically, the longer it takes, the more “wasted money”.  But, for a medical device inventor or company, the more precise advice may be to challenge your weaknesses early because they might fail in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Provisional Patent Application: Money Saver or Potential Trap?</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/04/10/the-provisional-patent-application-money-saver-or-potential-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healinginnovation.com/?p=1454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For inventors seeking to protect their inventions, provisional patent applications can be a very useful tool.  While the filing procedures are relatively simple and inexpensive, the practice is sometimes misunderstood. The mere filing of a provisional patent application is no assurance that it will provide adequate protection. The value of a provisional application depends on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Steps to Starting an mHealth Business</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/04/03/3-steps-to-starting-an-mhealth-business/</link>
		<comments>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/04/03/3-steps-to-starting-an-mhealth-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healinginnovation.com/?p=1420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; As we have discussed on many occasions on the Healing Innovation blog, most clinicians have a drive to improve medicine.  Many clinicians come up with great ideas in the course of their work. They see a problem that needs to be solved, and a better way to do something that can improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What physician inventors should understand about the patent system</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/03/20/why-physician-inventors-shoulds-understand-the-patent-system/</link>
		<comments>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/03/20/why-physician-inventors-shoulds-understand-the-patent-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arthurzb</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healinginnovation.com/?p=1396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Physicians hoping to commercialize their inventions should have a basic understanding of the patent system by which those inventions may be protected. All modern patent systems rest on a foundation of some simple, yet crucial, principles and objectives and understanding them is helpful to understanding the fabric of rules and laws that build on that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean medical device start-up</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/03/13/lean-medical-device-start-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Outsourcing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healing Innovation posted a blog over one year ago about medical device startup companies hiring infrastructure before needed.  We have also blogged about medical device virtual companies.  All medical device companies outsource some aspect of their business, but our premise is that in the early stages, medtech startups should focus on their core competency and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are post-market studies the answer to faster FDA approvals of novel medical devices?</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/02/28/are-post-market-studies-the-answer-to-faster-fda-approvals-of-novel-medical-devices/</link>
		<comments>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/02/28/are-post-market-studies-the-answer-to-faster-fda-approvals-of-novel-medical-devices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most of the world, regulatory bodies approve medical devices based on safety.  Seems like common sense.  But, in the U.S., the FDA approves medical devices based on both safety and effectiveness.  It’s the “E” word that is largely responsible for the long and protracted clinical trials that delay approval of novel medical devices. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Novelty, and we’re not talking x-ray glasses</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/02/14/novelty-and-we%e2%80%99re-not-talking-x-ray-glasses/</link>
		<comments>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/02/14/novelty-and-we%e2%80%99re-not-talking-x-ray-glasses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most people think of novelty items, they are envisioning the trinkets you buy at a party store for a gag birthday gift.  But, medical device intellectual property is no laughing matter.  In patent parlance, novelty refers to whether an invention is unknown or not used before being filed with the patent office, and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greater physician innovator collaboration with medical device companies</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/01/31/greater-physician-innovator-collaboration-with-medical-device-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/01/31/greater-physician-innovator-collaboration-with-medical-device-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healinginnovation.com/?p=1303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. Although medical device companies spend large sums of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Crowdfunding coming to medical device start-ups?</title>
		<link>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/01/17/is-crowdfunding-coming-to-medical-device-start-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://healinginnovation.com/2012/01/17/is-crowdfunding-coming-to-medical-device-start-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healinginnovation.com/?p=1280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure why it has not received more attention in the medical device start-up world, but the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (EACA), which recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, has the potential to open the door to intriguing fundraising possibilities for individual medical device innovators and start-ups. Although the title of [...]]]></description>
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