Product usability is a critical factor in the success of any medical device, both commercially and clinically. Still, not everyone realizes how much goes into making a product more intuitive. We recently had the chance to sit down with Jose Bohorquez, president of Bold Type, to discuss our outlooks for the medical device industry as […]
R&D
R&D teams for medtech companies are tasked with innovating to create the right tools for their custom applications and surgical dashboards, and also with ensuring that future iterations of the application continue to provide value for key user groups. When it comes to getting the work done, each option provides benefits and drawbacks, and it’s up to you to pick the best solution: build the application or dashboard in-house, select an off-the-shelf solution, or work with a third-party development team.
In these blog posts, we share tips based on our experience as a development firm who works with medtech companies to build custom applications, as well as our experience in using off-the-shelf solutions and in-house development for our own business needs.
Keeping the Vision for Your Product in a Hard Economy
If your budget gets cut back, what can you do to stay focused on the purpose behind your product? In medtech, companies aren’t creating pointless products. These devices and technologies are meant to improve patient care. Purpose doesn’t make a medical device exempt from the laws of economics, though. Here are some thoughts on how […]
Automation Essentials
A development pipeline automates your testing process and gives your app the best opportunity to deploy successfully. There are simply some tasks that are better for computers to do. Humans are fallible and can take longer to accomplish rudimentary tasks. Besides, if you could set up your testing process once upfront, wouldn’t you want to […]
Testing Essentials
Practically everyone seems to understand the need for testing your application before going live. So why is it so easy to take for granted, skip steps, or ignore completely? Testing is something that everybody understands is important. Tests are how you raise confidence that it does what it does before you release it into the […]
Want to Avoid Headaches? Insist on Repeatability
It’s common to focus on the immediate problems that you’re facing when standing up a new project or server. But what about the next time that you need to perform that process? Will you remember all of the steps you took? That’s where repeatability comes in. It might not feel like a priority. Until it […]
How Documentation Can Be Your Secret Sauce
Effective development teams use a set of best practices that are almost unnoticeable, but they can make all the difference. One of those best practices is documentation. When teams prioritize documenting along the way, they save time, money, and grief down the road. This is even more important in a regulated industry like medtech. In […]
When Your MVP Misses the Mark
How do you know when a minimum viable product is too minimal, and what can you do about it? This comes up a lot during custom application projects, and we have found it helpful to review what an MVP is, how to develop it, and how to use it to set up your project for […]
The Sunk Cost Fallacy for R&D Teams
Previously we addressed the sunk cost fallacy for marcom and business teams: the decision to keep an application that doesn’t work, or walk away and start over. This can be one of the more challenging decisions for leaders because, on one hand you’ve spent money to have something developed, but on the other hand, the […]
