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Medical Electronics Design regularly produces Webcasts on a wide variety of topics important to medical device professionals. Register below for upcoming webcasts.
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Microcontrollers for Healthcare: Hello, Kinetis (Goodbye, MSP430)
Portable healthcare devices are evolving into comprehensive gadgets that include advanced communication protocols, stylish user interfaces and bountiful data logging resources. This evolution cannot come at the cost of key application requirements for long battery life, accurate and reliable measurements, and cost effectiveness. To address this demand, Freescale has recently launched the KinetisK50 ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with integrated analog front end. The K50 microcontroller satisfies healthcare device requirements with exceptional low power design and integration of key peripherals such as capacitive touch sensing hardware. These features are integrated with a high performance, industry standard 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 CPU with DSP instructions, and are part of a portfolio of devices that contain integrated Flash memory sizes from 32KB to 1MB. The Kinetis K50 microcontroller is poised to be the healthcare microcontroller of choice for 2012 and beyond. Goodbye, MSP430.
Date: January 31, 2012
Time: 2 PM ET/11 AM PT Duration: 60 minutes
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Easier to Use UIs: How to Win Approval from users and the FDA
Your customers have told you that your next-generation medical device must be easier to use and you've heard about the new FDA human factors testing that might be required. You know you've got to have some kind of information display, and now you're ready to move towards creating that highly-desired, simple, engaging, and FDA approved medical user interface. This webinar covers the fundamentals of how to go about creating such an interface and how to smooth the path through FDA HF testing. Two companies, Bridge Design and Design Science, each with great expertise in their respective fields (UI design and human factors), will explain and illustrate how to:
- Understand what your specific users and stakeholders mean by "ease-of-use"
- Appreciate the fundamentals of good usability
- Know the criteria to help you choose the right style of interface (e.g., touchscreen or softkey-based, or using other input devices)
- Understand how to integrate a UI into the other components of your medical device or system
- Create that customer-appealing interface
- Develop an optimal prototype-test-iterate process with your users that will validate its usability and smooth the path to regulatory approval
- Deliver the UI to the software development-team in a simple and clear way that is as easy to implement as possible
Attendees of this webinar will get immediately actionable ideas on all the above topics as well as access to downloadable articles and whitepapers that provide data and further explanations of good practices and processes.
Bridge Design's Director of User Experience, Diana Greenberg, and Design Science Principal and Founder, Steve Wilcox, will provide the core content of this webinar.
Bridge Design (San Francisco, CA) is a medical product development company with 20 years of experience creating market-winning medical user interfaces, including the Cozmo insulin pump, which set the standard for ease-of-use in this category, and the recently announced AcelRx NanoTab PCA delivery system, that integrates RF tags and a small color screen into a small delivery device that enables secure and safe drug delivery.
Design Science (Philadelphia, PA) provides human factors support, including contextual inquiry and usability testing, for medical-device manufacturers, including a number of divisions of J&J, Baxter, and Abbott, among many others.
Date: February 22, 2012
Time: 2 PM ET/11 AM PT
Duration: 60 minutes
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Maintaining IEC 62304 compliance needn't be a harrowing experience
Companies in the medical space are required to work with a host of regulatory agencies. The information they request/require is sometimes similar, sometimes slightly different, and sometimes completely different, especially when you're dealing with IEC 62304. As you'll learn in this webcast, fulfilling these requests needn't be an insurmountable task. A series of tools will be explored, including the Rational Publishing Engine (RPE).
Date: March 8, 2012
Time: 2 PM ET/11 AM PT
Duration: 60 minutes
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Archived and On-Demand Webcasts
Pharma Lok™ Single-Use clamps and Value Plastics bag ports
This FREE webcast presentation will focus on the Biopharm market needs that resulted in designing a new line of unique single-use clamps that closely align with ASME-BPE specifications and significantly improve operators' ease of use and time spent on assembly. We incorporated input received from process designers and engineering into this innovative tri-clamp design.
The presentation will also look at an ongoing problem identified by one of the largest consumers of bag ports, and confirmed by multiple other manufactures of bags, that they were seeing cracking issues due to contact with IPA while under stress. This problem was found in all LDPE products tested. The cracking appeared anywhere within 7 seconds to 2 minutes and spread through the entire surface of the port. I will discuss how we addressed this issue, and then review testing results surrounding the new design features that allow bags to drain 17 to 24 percent faster and with improved flow characteristics. This distinctive design is pending being patented. Value Plastics worked with a leading resin manufacturer to come up with an exclusive resin that overcomes the stressing cracking issue, is UPS Class VI certified and Animal Derivative Free while heat sealing to existing polyethylene films used in Single-use bags.
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Cleaning Validations of Reusable Medical Devices
This webinar is designed to provide information for the beginner and the intermediate level person seeking further details into performing cleaning validations of reusable medical devices. The webinar covers the fundamentals of the cleaning process and goes into more depth about how to contaminate and perform the dwell time of the devices, what methods are used to clean the devices, what residuals are appropriate to test for specific device types, evaluating the recommended cleaning procedure for a reusable device according to AAMI TIR12:2010 and AAMI TIR30:2003, and the acceptance criteria for each residual tested. This information is needed to assure that once the device has been used, it can be properly cleaned. It is the responsibility of the manufacturer to apply this data, along with their own functionality and sterilization data, to the label claims. Lastly the topic covers several of the standards along with case studies and examples.
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Don't Let Your IP get Ripped-Off in China
Join Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP Partner, Jerry L. Hefner, Ph.D., J.D., for a discussion around this hot topic and learn how to protect your technology. Until recently, it was commonly believed that there was little value in obtaining IP rights in China. The expense of obtaining and maintaining patents and patent applications in China combined with the lack of an effective means for enforcement, made Chinese IP generally an unattractive investment. Over the last decade, however, China has made significant advancements in providing applicants with reasonably cost effective means for both securing and enforcing IP rights. In view of China's new found wealth and glut of well-trained scientists and engineers, any innovator would be remiss not to include China as part of its IP strategy.
In this seminar you will learn the types of IP protection that the Chinese system has to offer as well as cost effective approaches that non-Chinese entities can employ to reduce the likelihood of unauthorized exploitation of their technologies in China. In addition, you will learn how to control infringing activities through enforcement actions as well as realistic expectations for enforcement outcomes in China.
Originally Broadcast: December 6, 2011
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: $249.00
Group rates are also available. Contact Sue Johnson for information: sue.johnson@ubm.com, (303) 254-4763.
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The Medical Software Pandemic: Challenges and Solutions
The software complexity of critical medical devices is growing rapidly. Pacemakers can be remotely programmed. Infusion pumps have been hacked. Digital radiography systems contain millions of lines of code. Some devices, such as electronic medical record (EMR) tablets, are effectively a generic personal computer, running massive operating systems. Medical device manufacturers face tremendous competition, promoting intense cost containment measures and time to market pressure. The result is that the current international regulatory environment for life-critical medical devices is hopelessly inadequate. Unlike the avionics industry, which has extremely rigorous requirements for flight-critical software and requires a comprehensive validation prior to flying, medical device regulators have historically focused instead on documentary guidance. While medical device software failures have caused patient fatalities and hundreds of recalls, there has never been a commercial airline passenger fatality directly attributed to software.
There is a simple solution to this apparent untenable dilemma. Highly robust medical software can be developed at the speed and cost of high volume consumer electronics, such as smartphones and PCs. The methodology for achieving this combination of safety and efficiency is not widely understood. This seminar will describe the key principles and how they can be applied without sacrificing the latest and greatest multimedia, connectivity, and open source software features that improve usability. Furthermore, we discuss how regulators can dramatically improve medical software safety by reusing validated components and standards from other industries.
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Intellectual Property Considerations During Product Development
Intellectual property is often one of a medical device company's most valuable assets. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls that could lead to accidental loss of intellectual property rights and how to efficiently integrate a patent strategy into your product development plan.
- What should every product development professional know about the patent system?
- How important is patent protection to a medical device company?
- How to avoid accidental loss of patent rights?
- How to efficiently integrate a patent strategy into a product development plan?
- Is it better to patent or keep inventions as trade secrets?
- Why is it important to include the IP team during the entire product design and development process?
- How can patent and FDA strategies overlap and affect each other?
Originally Broadcast: September 13, 2011
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Packaging Test Methods for Validation of Sterile Barrier Materials
The purpose of this webinar will be to provide quality assurance, design engineers, project engineers and all medical device manufacturers the knowledge to make decisions regarding which tests should be used to validate their sterile barrier system. By focusing on specific tests as outline in ISO11607, each individual will have the opportunity to view actual test methods, determine appropriate test samples and identify pros and cons to each method. Some of the methods viewed will consist of Bubble Emission (ASTM F2096), Microbial Ranking (ASTM F1608), Burst Testing (ASTM F1140), Seal Strength Testing (ASTM F88), and Dye Migration (ASTM F1929).
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Outsourcing Thermoplastics Extrusion? Lessons That Could Save You Thousands
Did you ever think you could save thousands of dollars by adjusting your tolerance by a half-thousandth of an inch (0.0005")? Did you realize you could do it without sacrificing any aspect of your product's performance? We'll tell you how one medical innovator did it through close collaboration with a contract manufacturer. You'll also learn the tricks to reducing time, frustration and failures so every medical device you design performs as you intend—from the design phase to full-scale manufacturing to the final point of care. You won't want to miss these lessons, as presented through dozens of recent case studies and real-life stories collected over decades. Join us for this revealing webinar on June 22 2011, at 12:00 PM ET. Register now, it's FREE.
Originally Broadcast: June 22, 2011
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Managing Life Cycle Requirements for Developing and Maintaining Medical Device
Complying with the IEC 62304 standard to produce safe and effective medical devices requires that software design and development follows defined and controlled processes. This demands hardware and software teams to establish a common set of systems requirements, develop software with proper verifications, risk management, and maintain traceability. This is the third in the series on IEC62304 webinars that will take a deeper dive into managing requirements, modeling, testing, verification, and maintaining traceability throughout the product life cycle. It will demonstrate the power of team collaboration, and efficiency of re-usability to produce high quality reliable products, with lower costs and faster cycle times, that are safe, effective and compliant with regulations. Register now, it's FREE.
Originally Broadcast: June 23, 2011
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MEMS Inertial Sensors in Healthcare
MEMS inertial sensors are proving to be extremely versatile with usage only limited by the imagination of designers. Learn how this innovative technology is shaping next generation healthcare device designs. See why it is a viable alternative to optical or mechanical sensors that often have limitations on performance, size, power or cost. Understand how this innovative technology is being used for precise positioning in imaging systems, highly accurate guidance in surgical instruments, and accurate motion sensing in patient monitoring devices.
You will learn the basics on MEMS motion sensing including:
- Architectures and technology including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and inertial measurement units (IMUs)
- Device specifications and understanding the critical parameters necessary depending on the specific application requirements
Applications explored include precise positioning/tracking of healthcare scanning equipment, surgical tool guidance, balance and control of prosthetics, and motion sensing in eldercare activity monitors and wellness devices. View now, it's FREE.
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Reduce FDA Validation Costs with Mobile Applications
For medical device manufacturers today, managing the traceability of products to ensure proper documentation is critical to complying with current FDA regulations. The questions that businesses like yours are often asking include: how will I ensure my systems are validated to comply with FDA regulation and how can I reduce this cost of compliance?
Join us for this webcast and hear from Andrew Dancan, Director of ERP at Cardiovascular Systems, Inc on how they use mobile applications to comply with FDA regulations and reduce compliance costs. They are using mobile technology specifically to:
- Report on and control products on the plant floor
- Streamline the steps of production to reduce the cost of validation of systems
- Increase the amount of automation in business processes to further reduce costs
- Enable the use of visual cues and pull type systems in production to improve business processes
Register for this webcast now and learn how your company too can reduce FDA validation costs and improve compliance processes with mobile applications.
Originally Broadcast: May 25, 2011
Duration: 60 minutes
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Mitigation Strategies for ECG Design Challenges
Join us in this FREE webinar and learn more about:
- Patient and operator safety relating to isolation from AC mains and sourced or sinked current relating to the patient electrode attachment.
- Common mode rejection of the isolated AFE of the subsystem, relative to its isolated ground and earth ground.
- INA differential and common mode input voltage range requirements and how to address input overloads.
- Input protection from environmental and human made transients.
- Input noise floor requirements and limits on "structured noise" as measured in uV peak to peak over a bandwidth of 0.05 to 150 Hz for a period of 20 seconds or longer.
- Radiated emissions and incoming EMI based on the clinical environment and IEC, ISO, AAMI standards and guidance documents.
Various hardware and software/DSP techniques that address these issues will be discussed.
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Fundamentals of ADC Technologies for Healthcare Designs
Choosing the best ADC for an application can be a confusing task, as architectures and technology rapidly develop, and the old rules no longer apply in many cases. This session will explain the main ADC architectures in use today, and their advantages and disadvantages for different medical and healthcare applications such as ECG, diagnostics and ultrasound. It will present the latest developments in:
- Successive approximation
- Sigma delta
- Pipelined architectures
Design guidance on clocking, grounding, shielding and other techniques to get the best performance from the device will be presented. Analog reference load characteristics and how to drive these for optimal results will also be discussed.
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The Big Three: Cytotoxicity, Sensitization & Irritation
There's myriad tests medical device manufacturers need to be prepared to conduct on their creations in order to pass regulation requirements before they are released to the marketplace. None more important than the Cytotoxicity, Sensitization, and Irritation tests—the Big Three as we call them.
They are the Big Three because they must be conducted on every device before they can be submitted to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). There is no way you can get around doing the three tests. Other tests may or may not need to be conducted.
By attending this webinar you will learn and be better prepared for:
- The importance of each test and why they have to be done. It helps to know what each test is looking for and the acceptance standard for each.
- An idea of the potential dangers in each test and what impact your device may have on the test.
- What the reaction to the patient may be based on the results of a failed test. Is it something you can justify? Do you need to reevaluate the materials and processes you are using to get it to pass? Can a risk assessment on the toxicity of the device be made or does the toxicity need to be eliminated?
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Telehealth Aggregation Managers
Telehealth Aggregation Managers: Choosing the right semiconductor solutions and wireless technologies for your personal connected health system. With aging populations, the increasing incidence of chronic diseases and the need to control health care costs, connected health technologies are becoming increasingly important for remote patient monitoring as well as personal health and fitness management. The Telehealth Aggregation Manager (AM) is an essential device in the connected health system enabling personal health devices to log data in a remote Electronic Health Record (EHR) for family and clinical review. It also allows real-time interaction between patients and doctors, families and friends. Choosing the right semiconductor solutions and wireless technologies simplifies design, addresses interoperability concerns and enriches the user experience. This webinar will address how advances in semiconductor technology including embedded processing, power management and wireless connectivity can help you accelerate your telehealth aggregation manager system design and which tools are available to facilitate your design process.
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Optimizing Ultrasound Systems using Integrated Receivers
- TGC noise analysis techniques will be presented to aid designers in determining receiver noise contributions in near and far field B mode imagining.
- The key IC performance specifications that determine PW Doppler mode sensitivity will be discussed.
- Analysis of the CW Doppler signal path critical noise sources and suggested filtering techniques will be presented.
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How to Choose the Right Semiconductor Solution for your Flexible, Low-power Ultrasound System Design
Ultrasound system designers are looking to increase image quality and add advanced features in ultrasound systems while reducing board space and power consumption. Ultrasound systems can range from handheld, portable systems to cart-based, high-end systems with different system requirements and trade-offs. This webinar will address how analog, digital, mixed-signal and power management semiconductor solutions can help you achieve your ultrasound system design goals and which tools are available to facilitate and speed the design process.
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Portable Power for Medical Devices
As the medical world becomes ever more portable and field-responsive, the need for smaller, lighter, and untethered devices is becoming more important. Many manufacturers of portable medical devices have upgraded their medical devices to operate on Lithium ion (Li-ion) battery technology, while others still use older battery technologies such as Nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) and/or Sealed Lead Acid (SLA) in their products. This webcast outlines the options available to medical device manufacturers in Li-ion battery technologies. This webcast will educate electrical and mechanical engineers of portable medical equipment about the different design advantages and use constraints of Li-ion batteries, while examining the chemistry tradeoffs between various battery choices. Registrants will gain insight on how to implement a battery solution that will enable differentiation in this increasingly competitive market.
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Breakthrough Devices for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Skin Cancer
This webcast will focus on two cutting-edge technologies related to medical devices in skin cancer research. Melanoma is the leading cause of skin cancer in the United States with 68,000+ new cases annually and 8,700+ deaths. The average patient can have a high rate of survival if the skin cancer is diagnosed and treated early enough. This webcast will discuss how several leading universities in the United States (Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgia Health Sciences University) are addressing the deadly potential of melanoma by helping to diagnose and treat the disease in its earliest stages of development. The researchers at these universities have dedicated their time and efforts to developing new medical devices that could potentially save the lives of countless people in the near future. Both of these technologies are available for license and further development at the respective universities' technology transfer office.
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Ethylene Oxide Sterilization
This webcast is designed to acquaint those in the medical device community with the appropriate ways to develop, optimize, and validate an ethylene oxide sterilization process. The properties and hazards associated with ethylene oxide and the process required to successfully validate a medical device will also be discussed. The validation methods used are outlined in ANSI/AAMI/ISO 11135-1:2007. Some of the related testing includes comparative resistance, bioburden resistance, bioburden enumeration, sterility testing, sterilant gas residues, and temperature/humidity distribution studies. In addition, the batch release method will be outlined. This process allows the manufacturer to sterilize a single lot of product for use in clinical trials or animal studies where large numbers of samples are not available. This provides a rapid and cost effective way to provide sterile product without undergoing the full validation process.
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Photocurrent Measurements in Non-Imaging Healthcare Applications
Amplifier design challenges associated with measuring a small photo detector current:
The general problem of photodiode current measurement will be discussed, using pulse oximetry and consumer assays as working examples. This presentation will examine the main analog design challenges and root noise causes associated with measuring a small photo detector current while taking a look at the trade-offs of developing an application to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio.
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Taming the Complexity of Smart Products with Systems Engineering
66% of products developed in the past year included some kind of embedded information technology. But what does this dramatic increase in complexity mean for the creators of those products? Discover how systems engineering can help manufacturers reduce design errors and speed development, while collaborating in real-time with far-flung design partners. Examples from industry will be presented to aid in understanding the ROI of this approach. Register now, it's FREE.
Originally Broadcast: March 23, 2011
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ECG and Heart Rate Monitoring Design Techniques
This technical webcast takes an in-depth look at the major design challenges that are commonly encountered with ECG and Heart Rate Monitor Medical Devices. The presentation provides a system overview and examines proven design techniques for controlling noise sources and EMI radiation, and analysis of various heart-monitoring and respiration monitoring functions.
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Duration: 60 minutes
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Activity Monitoring Technology for 21st Century Consumer Healthcare Applications
A state of the art activity monitor (a.k.a pedometer) in the mid-20th century looked like a pocket watch and used a mechanical sensor to increment a hand on display to count steps. Today activity monitors are used for a range of human physiology measurements, including motion, calorie burn, temperature, body fat, respiration and heart rate. This Healthcare-focused webcast provides an overview of the solutions from Analog Devices, and a look at the new generation of activity monitoring device applications that they enable.
View this webcast and learn about:
- An overview of next-generation activity-monitoring devices: capabilities and block diagrams.
- Healthcare technology components supporting a range of sensor schemes: Pressure, humidity, capacitance, motion, temperature, and light.
- Medical-to-medical communications.
- And more.
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Duration: 60 minutes
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