Insights on Building Better Medical Devices
Medical device engineering insights often come from the thousands of technical decisions made long before their consequences become visible. RSE Insights explores the engineering challenges, decisions, and lessons that influence whether complex medical device programs move forward successfully.
Through conversations with medical device innovators and perspectives drawn from systems engineering practice, these articles examine how teams manage technical risk, solve difficult development problems, and turn promising concepts into successful products.
Building Better Medical Devices
Building Better Medical Devices is an RSE interview series featuring conversations with people developing innovative medical technologies. The series goes behind the product to explore the engineering challenges, design decisions, tradeoffs, and lessons that shape real medical device development programs.
HEALING INNOVATIONS
Designing a Robot That Doesn’t Do All the Work
A conversation about rehabilitation robotics, patient engagement, and the engineering challenge of designing a system that assists movement without replacing the patient’s own effort.
INFLOMEDICAL
Rethinking ECLS: What Happens When You Redesign Life Support from the Pump Up?
A conversation about rethinking extracorporeal life support from the system level—including blood flow, pumping technology, circuit design, and the engineering decisions behind a new approach to ECLS.
AvaSys
You Are Not Your User: Why Human Factors Has to Start Earlier
A conversation with Dr. Cameron Jones, co-founder and CEO of Avasys, about why human factors needs to begin early in medical device development, how formative usability studies uncover hidden design assumptions, and why user behavior should be treated as engineering information.
Uncommon Innovation
DHF Rescues: Recovering the Decisions Behind a Medical Device
A conversation with Elliot Franz, founder of Uncommon Innovation, about recovering lost engineering decisions, restoring design traceability, and how effective design controls help medical device teams avoid repeating past mistakes and move toward commercialization.
Have a Medical Device Development Challenge?
The same systems thinking explored in these conversations can help development teams identify technical risk, clarify difficult decisions, and prepare for critical program milestones. RSE provides experienced systems engineering support where it can make the greatest difference.