DDSTUDIO, whose human-centered design work focuses on the end user in context, congratulated clients InfoBionic®, Hologic® and IntelliGuard® for each winning a Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) Tuesday, 6/12/2018, at the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East conference in New York City. The awards recognize design and engineering that improves the quality of health care delivery and accessibility.
Only once before has a design firm had three client products named as finalists in one year for the prestigious award.
“All three of these very different devices were designed to fit seamlessly into the user’s life or workflow, which is the essence of DDSTUDIO’s human-centered design process,” said Charles Curbbun, DDSTUDIO’s chief executive. “Each device delivers cutting-edge technology that is transformative in its own category.”
- InfoBionic’s MoMe® Kardia System, a wearable, ambulatory cardiac monitoring system designed for users with transient symptoms of arrhythmia, won a gold award in the Cardiovascular Device category. Its sleek, unobtrusive design allows it to be worn comfortably and correctly all day, without interrupting the user’s routine or activities. It provides reliable, detailed data that doctors can access when they want, allowing for real- time diagnosis. In January, the market-shifting MoMe® won a Good Design.
- Hologic’s Panther Fusion® won a bronze award in the Testing and Diagnostic Products and Systems category. The modular, field upgrade to Hologic’s fully automated Panther system combines PCR and TMA molecular testing on a single platform designed for intuitive operation, enhancing a laboratory’s flexibility and amplifying productivity.
- IntelliGuard’s Linked Visibility Inventory System™, (LVIS™), won a bronze award in the Nonsurgical Hospital Supplies and Equipment category, is the first real-time medication management system that operates at the point of care. Designed for the anesthesiology team working in a hectic operating room, it uses patented RFID technology to track medication uses as they occur and manage regulatory and narcotics control, while ensuring expiration and recall issues are properly dispatched, all out of sight from the point of care. LVIS™ won a Good Design Award earlier this year.
“Normally you wouldn’t think design would matter for a product used by anesthesiologist in the OR, but we thought it is important to prioritize both form and function to improve workflows,” said Gordon Krass, IntelliGuard’s CEO. “I would like to thank DDSTUDIO for their creative work on the Linked Visibility Inventory System™ (LVIS™) and the Medical Design Excellence Awards committee for this honor.”
The awards are judged by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of expert jurors comprised of a balance of clinicians, engineers, and designers.