Tag: healthcare
Automation and Robotics: Transforming the Healthcare Journey
Robotics and automation are transforming healthcare, offering greater precision and efficiency. Beyond technical innovation, how do these advancements improve patient care and outcomes? And what steps can stakeholders take to overcome barriers and integrate these technologies for meaningful change?
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PDD and Tri-Star Design Announce Healthcare Market Partnership
PDD and Tri-Star Design announced today a new partnership that will accelerate innovation, design and development for a rapidly expanding digital healthcare market.
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PDD partners with SSG to develop Acelo
PDD has collaborated with SSG, a leader in smart healthcare communications, to develop Acelo, an innovative nurse call system that supports healthcare professionals and improves the patient experience in hospitals and clinical settings.
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Mitigating Usability Risks: The upcoming NMPA guidelines in China
Mitigating Usability Risks in Medical Device Development, in the light of the upcoming National Medical Product Administration (NMPA) guidelines in China.
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Emotional AI : Driving deeper connections for patients in digital healthcare
At PDD we like to keep one eye on the horizon, scanning themes and emerging trends across the healthcare sector to understand what’s next. As the rise of digital health and therapeutics continues, we take a look at what this means for the patient experience and what opportunities lie in the area of self-care and self-management.
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Putting medics at the heart of innovation
PDD launches new initiative to put medics at the heart of innovation.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Jim Roberts, consultant anaesthetist and medical innovator at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), as an independent advisor in healthcare innovation. This initiative seeks to transform how medical technology is developed and used in hospital settings by putting medics at the heart of the process.
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Understanding The Healthcare Consumer
Over the past year, health has become the focal point of our lives in a way that few of us could have predicted, nor ignored. Just like consumer culture transformed our societies two centuries ago, health and health-related issues now shape our identity, our lifestyle, our perspectives and importantly our aspirations for the future.
In this article, Emma Dickinson – Consultant, Research Recruitment at PDD, explores people’s evolving attitudes in healthcare and how healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers can make the most of that opportunity to deliver a compelling, engaging experience for all.
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Zephyr Plus Ventilator recognised with the C2I Award for Covid-19 response.
We are delighted to see the Zephyr Plus Ventilator recognised with the C2I award for COVID-19 Response by The Engineer magazine.
Led by Babcock International Group in response to the UK Government’s ventilator challenge in the early days of the pandemic, this was a highly collaborative project where PDD and over 50 partners and suppliers worked together to find the most appropriate solution.
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Human Factors and Anaesthetic Practice: Why the Equipment Makes a Difference
Ergonomics and Human Factors practice are inherently broad and multi-disciplinary, but one thing that unites us all is a focus on design.
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Drug delivery and the Internet of Medical Things
Important advancements within medical technology are opening up new possibilities for the healthcare industry to redefine itself through the use of devices able to provide, collect, analyse, and convey data.
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AI, Machine Learning and Big Data in Healthcare: Time to get real
Techniques such as AI and Machine Learning are creating new opportunities for healthcare and changing the way that people interact with health services.
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The impact of light on healthcare operations
This article explores the impact that environmental factors such as light have on healthcare and considers how they can be optimised to support patient and staff well-being.
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Understanding nursing practice in China
Over recent years, PDD has conducted numerous observational and interview studies in China focusing on medical device design and nursing practice.
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Meet the PDD team at CMEF and CMP conferences in China
We are pleased to let you know that this autumn we will be present at some of the most prestigious medical events in China.
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Multitone EkoTek – Best Communication System Winner 2017
The PDD team was asked to produce a system that is both reliable and user-friendly and within a branding format that is suitable for a wide range of medical and industrial-commercial settings
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Human factors for digital health
Human Factors and Ergonomics contribute towards Digital Health by providing an understanding of the healthcare system, making sure we get the right tool for the job and making sure that the tool fits and fit for purpose.
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Management of evaluations: Patients with ‘sensitive’ medical conditions
Conducting any kind of patient-centric evaluation can present numerous challenges; preparing for and conducting evaluation sessions with patients suffering from sensitive and changeable conditions (such as Alzheimer’s) can present even more complex challenges, as we found out on a study we conducted in the past year.
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PDD gains re-certification to the latest standard for medical devices quality assurance
Following our successful transition in June to the latest 2016 revision of ISO13485, we were certified in November for a further 3 years for our client services in research, design, engineering, pre-production manufacture, verification and validation.
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