My personal reflection is that this course really took the time to break down the many different aspects of medical device development and I appreciated the information that we received during this cl...

There was a time where pharmaceutical companies and medical device developers used to have lavish accounts and spending on physicians to be able to prescribe or use their products. Incentives included...

This is an interesting topic because like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, organizations have a hierarchy of needs as well. Maslow's theory is based on the motivation of people based on psychological, saf...

Similar to pharmaceutical drugs that are being implemented for human consumption there is inherent risks associated with medical device development but there is also this idea of scaling risk, scaling...

The point of post market surveillance is to maintain a product quality as well as its performance. Despite the fact that in the United States it is a regulatory requirement, it allows you to improve y...

Some of the biggest mistakes and medical device companies make include but are not limited to designing the wrong product. Sometimes the market isn't big enough and in some cases there is no market to...

According to the FDA, Human factors/usability engineering focuses on the interactions between people and devices. This includes understanding the user-device system, it's importance to understanding t...

Thank you @rgb29 for bringing this conversation to the forefront. As a secretary to a nonprofit organization, I can attest to how important it is to take accurate minutes of the proceedings of meeting...

In the People’s Republic of China, the manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and sale of medical devices, are mainly regulated by the Regulations on Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices...

The placebo is usually a saline solution. Something that is harmless to inject (and is often used to dilute actual vaccines), but has no medical benefits. Although in some cases an unrelated and alrea...

According to the National Institute of Health web site on clinical trials, there are over 225,506 studies currently being conducted throughout the United States and 192 countries. Less than 1% of the ...

Posted by: @alexandrabuga Background: Henrietta Lacks was a woman whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines i...

It is estimated that globally, the market for Clinical Trials is in upwards of $44 Billion as of 2020 and is expected to grow by approx 6% over the next 7 years, mostly fueled by the need to address c...

Emotional intelligence also known as the emotional quotient is the ability to understand someone’s feelings and someone else’s thoughts it is probably responsible for more than half of the success in ...

Brand coloring is as essential as the product that the organization is advertising. Some of the most iconic companies in the healthcare industry also utilize this technique in their branding which oth...