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Role of Human Factors Engineering in Design of Portable Medical Devices
Introduction Portable medical devices are essential in contemporary healthcare, designed to be used in various environments, whether indoors or outdoors. These devices can vary in...
Deploying Applications with Ease: A Guide to Containerization
What are Containers? Applications that run in isolated runtime environments are called containerised applications. Containers encapsulate an application with all its dependencies, including system libraries...
A User-Focused Approach to Medical Device Development: Identifying Usability Challenges and Prioritizing Solutions
Introduction Users play a crucial role in the user-interface development process. They contribute at different stages of device development. User involvement during the initial stages...
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly: Optimizing Product Development
Product development requires an integrated bringing together design, engineering, and manufacturing teams. By adopting Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA) companies can optimize processes, ensuring...
Tackling Cybersecurity Challenges in Connected Medical Devices
Introduction The rapid expansion of technology has significantly advanced the field of healthcare, with connected medical devices leading the charge. These devices, ranging from wearable...
How to Create a Patient Implant Card Under the EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR 2017/745)
The EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR 2017/745) requires manufacturers of certain implantable medical devices to provide an implant card to patients. The implant card is...
Exploring Intelligent Materials: Properties, Applications, and Future Trends
The article explores the fascinating things of intelligent materials, historical development, distinctive properties, and diverse applications. We will study how these materials revolutionizing several industries...
Firmware Development Trends: Innovations Driving the Future of Embedded Systems
Firmware is at the core of modern electronic devices, providing essential low-level control over hardware while enabling sophisticated functionality. As embedded systems advance, firmware development...
Cognitive Ergonomics: Understanding Human Interaction with Technology
In today's technology-driven world, understanding how humans interact with advanced technological systems is crucial for creating innovative, effective, efficient, and user-friendly products. At the heart...
Impact of Composite Materials in Modern Manufacturing and Engineering Innovation
In today's rapidly evolving industries, composite materials are reshaping the future of manufacturing and innovation. From aerospace to automotive and sports equipment, these materials offer...
Cloud Computing in Healthcare: Improving Data Accessibility, Security, and Cost Efficiency
In the evolving digital landscape of healthcare, integrating cloud computing solutions has become crucial. These technologies offer a revolutionary approach to managing data, enhancing patient...
Healthcare data privacy: Key measures to protect patient information.
Data security and privacy are critical pillars of healthcare systems, as they ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive patient information. In today's digital...
The Intersection of Human Factors and AI: Opportunities and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming various industries by driving automation, smarter decision-making, and next-level predictive capabilities. But to unlock AI's true potential, integrating AI...
Critical Role of Medical Device Labelling: Ensuring Safety, Compliance, and Patient Well-being
Medical devices play a vital role in diagnosing, treating, and monitoring various medical conditions, enhancing the quality of patient care, and improving outcomes. Yet, an...
Exploring the Capabilities of OpenAI API
As technology continues to evolve, artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our lives. One of the most exciting and famous developments in...
How FEA is Revolutionizing Material Science
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a numerical technique that breaks down large, complicated engineering issues into smaller, easier-to-manage components. Using mathematical models, the computer-based simulation...
DevSecOps with Azure and GitHub
In the fast-paced world of software development, security often takes a backseat to speed and efficiency. However, with the rise of cyber threats, integrating security...
Driving Excellence in Healthcare and Medical Devices with Automation Testing
The medical device industry is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements and increasing regulatory demands. Ensuring the reliability and safety of medical device software is...
Importance of Human Factors Engineering in Medical Device Domain
Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession...
Driving Excellence in Healthcare and Medical Devices with Automation Testing
The medical device industry is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements and increasing regulatory demands. Ensuring the reliability and safety of medical device software is...
Efficiently loading assemblies at runtime with .NET 6*
Back in the days of .NET framework, it was straightforward to load assemblies at runtime using the ‘System.Reflection’ library alone. However, when platform agnostic .NET...
Trends that will shape the Healthcare & Lifesciences in 2024
Healthcare & Lifesciences IT market overview The healthcare IT market includes a range of technology solutions such as electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine, mHealth (mobile...
Artificial Intelligence in Audiology
The field of audiology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has opened new possibilities for transforming the...
Alternative to Animal Testing
Introduction: In drug testing, animals are often used because it's considered one of the most effective methods to evaluate a drug's toxicity and effectiveness. In...
The story behind our Medical and Healthcare Expertise
Today Decos is a trusted partner for software engineering in the medical and healthcare domain. We offer a broad spectrum of services from our innovative...
Remediation: Its crucial role in performance and effectiveness of Medical Devices
Medical devices facilitate affordable and quality patient care as these are useful in preventing, diagnosing, and effectively treating medical illnesses. Medical devices are also useful...
ISO 18562 for Evaluation of Medical Device with a Breathing Gas Pathway
In March 2017, ISO 18562 was released to evaluate the biocompatibility of breathing gas pathways in medical devices. ISO18562 regulates the biological assessment of a...
How Blockchain and IOT can help in the fight against counterfeit medicines
Applying blockchain and IoT to the pharmaceutical supply chain One of the biggest challenges for pharmaceutical companies (manufacturers) is counterfeit medicines. This problem has a...
Implementing interoperability and patient access
This is our first blog in a new Healthcare and Life Sciences series where we talk about different technology-related aspects of the healthcare industry. This...
Systems engineering in medical device development
Building a complex medical device in today’s environment involves many subsystems. The design and development of these subsystems require a systems engineering approach.
SAMD: Assistance for Clinical Evaluation in Medical Device
Healthcare services can be transformed immensely just by monitoring the data generated by them every day. This can be achieved through software.
Software As a Medical Device (SAMD) in US FDA and its submission process.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) is the leading regulatory body in the world that has established certain frameworks and regulations with...
Software As a Medical Device (SAMD) in EU MDR and its submission process.
European Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) will create a robust, transparent, and sustainable regulatory framework, recognized internationally, This would improve clinical safety and create fair...
GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING - PART 2
This is the second and last part of a blog series. Read about introduction and fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing here. We have covered...
GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING - Part 1
What is Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing? Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) is a critical aspect of engineering design and manufacturing. It is a system of...
Plastic Flow Analysis
Plastic flow analysis is a technique that uses mathematical models or computer simulation to predict the flow of molten plastic during the injection molding process...
Design Thinking for Healthcare: A Catalyst for Innovation
Nearly everything you see around you is designed; that is, it is present because someone thought about what was required. I see a mobile phone...
The significance of Unique Device Identification (UDI) in Medical Device Industry
In the ever-evolving field of healthcare, patient safety and regulatory compliance are top priorities. One essential tool that aids in achieving these goals is the...
Cytotoxicity Assays In Medical Device
Medical devices are used in different healthcare set-ups such as the diagnosis of illness, to monitor treatments, treat both acute and chronic illnesses.
Internet Of Medical Things (IoMT) and its impact On the Digital Healthcare Revolution
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) refers to the integration of medical applications and devices connected to healthcare information technology systems via the internet. Also...
Material used in Medical Devices
Introduction Doing a proper material selection reduces the risk of biocompatibility testing failure during product development. During the design of a medical device, the biological...
How are Digital Applications transforming the Healthcare industry?
Digital transformation in the healthcare industry is speeding up, just like any other industry. The innovations and modern age technologies are helping doctors, hospitals, and...
Top Healthcare Technology Trends 2023 and Beyond
Today, the healthcare industry is constantly evolving and is not just limited to the treatment of patients. Patients, doctors, healthcare professionals, and the overall population...
8 Reasons why Automation Testing Is popular amongst Healthcare ISVs
The era of digitization and technology has undoubtedly transformed healthcare delivery and patient care. The global healthcare IT market was estimated at US$ 282.99 billion...
Interoperability – Mainstreaming Remote Patient Care Monitoring
Every patient deserves the best care whether they are under treatment for ailments, recovering from illness, taking preventive measures, or undergoing health monitoring.
Electrical product sustenance: the essential know-how.
New products make their way to the market to meet the growing demands and requirements of the customers, enabling businesses to expand their product/service portfolios...
The Significance of RPA in Healthcare: A Remarkable Amplification
At the organization level, there exist high-volume mundane tasks, that are time-consuming, complex, and prone to human error. Now imagine the plight of healthcare organizations...
Cloud Technology in Healthcare Services
Technology has brought a massive constructive change in the healthcare industry accelerating innovations in this domain. Patient care is evolving, and healthcare providers are adopting...
Emerging Technology Trends That are shifting the dynamics of the Healthcare industry
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world completely and, as with all other sectors, the transformation in the healthcare sector is nothing short of remarkable. The...
Application of Artificial intelligence In Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare has been around for over four decades. In the beginning, systems had limitations requiring extensive programming and exhibited little to...
An introduction to Automation
Our drive, as humans, to be the best at everything we do and achieve perfection in producing things has led us to analyse our production...
The Benefits of Data Analytics in Healthcare
Data analytics is a much sought after technological advancement right now, right across the healthcare industry. In the healthcare field, data analytics has a vital...
The why & how of Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Why cybersecurity is critical to the healthcare business, especially now! In today’s electronic world, protecting information from hackers and fraudsters is critical. Due to the...
7 technology trends in Healthcare in 2021
CIOs should s trategize future directions and readiness of technology forces and innovations. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted businesses including healthcare delivery across the globe...