December 11, 2020

Medical Device Product Development: A New Modernization in Healthcare Industry

Medical device product development is highly challenging because of one fundamental reason and that is the human body. The variation in human body makes it highly difficult to create devices such as arterial stents, monitoring devices and even insulin delivery devices that can be safely used on a 14-year-old child to an 80-year-old adult. This is highly deceptive and tedious as you need to be 100% sure about the effectiveness on all types of human body.

The recent pandemic has made situation grimmer and worrisome. Medical device development process is now evolving since most of the work routines are changing the way process is being carried out. As per the modernization rolled out by FDA software and hardware modernization is must and medical device manufacturers must make a choice to integrate digital platforms designed to accelerate product development.

Medical device product development companies must know the importance of these below points for accelerating their product innovation as a new ‘normal’.

Keep your data in one place

With your development team and staff spread in different locations it is vital to assemble your data at one place that is digitally available to everyone in the team and can be accessed without compromising the security of the system. Cloud based platforms can help deliver significant productivity boost by ensuring all the information related to your product is stored on single, centralized and secure environment.

Need for robust data platforms

Medical device development process can be tricky and incredibly complex. They require hardware, software and cloud base connectivity to work seamlessly to deliver a desirable output. Leading medical device product development firms have now started to embrace model-based system engineering (MBSE) which uses robust 2D and 3D models as reference with the ability to deliver complex, multi-dimensional product information at every phase of development process.

Use of simulation to fasten the process

Human body possesses infinite variety of compositions and conditions, so simulation is a powerful tool for medical device product development firms to develop products that can safely accommodate widest range of users, patients and applications. Simulation reduces development costs along with the time to market the product as compared to physical testing or orthodox ways of product testing.