April 18th, 2013

Join HSD and HSD’s Director of Design, Mike Herda, to discuss our firm’s transition to the ISO13485 standards and how its improved our process. Mike will present a HSD case study and discuss, from a designer’s perspective, the lessons learned during this transition. To register, click here.
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April 3rd, 2013

After winning two MDEA supplier awards in 2012, HS Design is being recognized for the BioNano Genomics’ Irys and the Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System. These nominations are HSD’s fourth in just two years. Read the entire press release here.
The 2013 awards will be announced at the at the 15th annual MDEA ceremony, June 19th, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel, in conjunction with the 30th MD&M East event. Visit Booth 2660 @ MDM East to explore some of HSD’s award-winning innovations.
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March 21st, 2013

March 22, 2013
9:00am - 4:00pm
Hyatt Regency New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
The NJTC Venture Conference showcases the region’s most promising companies and leading professional service firms. In past years, the Conference has attracted over 350 individual investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, lenders and other financing groups from the northeast corridor.
The 2013 Venture Conference will highlight some of the region’s emerging technology sectors, such as information technology, health IT, mobile apps, life sciences and more. The region’s leading venture capitalists and members of the investment community will be invited to participate in the Conference. For registration or more information, click here.
Tags: BioMarker Strategies, contract manufacturing, design firm, Emerging Companies, engineering, FDA Compliance, hs design, HSD, human factors, IDSA, industrial design, Innovation, Innovation Conference, innovations, instrument design, life sciences, MDEA, medical conference, medical design, Medical Design Firm, medical start-up company, New Jersey Tech, NJTC, NJTC Venture Conference, northeast venture, product development, prototypes, prototyping, Venture, Venture Capital
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March 13th, 2013

April 9, 2013
4:00-5:30, Ski-U-Mah, McNamara Alumni Center
The University Hotel Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
Tor Alden, of HS Design, to speak at the world’s premiere medical devices conference. The conference provides a national forum to bring together world-class medical device designers, researchers, manufacturers, and the public sector to share perspectives and innovations in medical device design.
Tor will be part of a panel on the collaborative nature of medical devices. Medical device design is inherently collaborative and increasingly important as development budgets are tight increasing the importance of developing the right device the first time. This panel discussion with industry leaders will discuss internal and external partnerships, the tools and processes which promote collaboration as well as challenges for effective interactions.
The University of Minnesota’s Medical Devices Center, part of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, the College of Science and Engineering, and the Academic Health Center is presenting the 11th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference.
For more information or to register click here
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January 11th, 2013

Ambio Health, a healthcare technology company, announced the debut of an innovative, new, wireless Remote Health Monitoring System. The company demoed the Remote Health Monitoring product at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Digital Health Summit.
The Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System monitors weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels, and was built from the ground up to meet the needs of patients, their families, and healthcare and managed care providers.
The Ambio Remote Health Monitoring System costs significantly less than competing monitoring solutions, creating a more affordable option for consumers. Healthcare systems will also realize cost efficiencies as they deploy Ambio devices within large populations of chronic disease patients who are at high risk of hospitalization.
HSD assisted Ambio Health in the design and engineering of the consumer medical Gateway and wireless connectors through to manufacturing. The wireless connectors transmit the patients readings automatically to a Health Portal, providing tools for members and their care circle to help them stay healthy.
According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute “Healthcare Unwired” report, 88% of physicians would like their patients to be able to track and/or monitor their health at home, with the greatest interest in monitoring weight, blood sugar and vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate respiratory rate).
For more information, visit www.ambiohealth.com
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December 4th, 2012

HSD congratulates BioNano Genomics for its commercial rollout of the breakthrough Irys™ System, an intuitively designed genome mapping system that empowers genomics researchers with a new way of analyzing genomic DNA. Irys™ makes it possible to routinely and accurately detect genomic structural variation and to finish genome assemblies. HSD and Sparton Medical Systems collaborated on the design and engineering of the instrument and disposable cartridge. To learn more about this amazing technology, see the video here.
Tags: $100 genome, Analyzer, bionano, brand identity, breakthrough, contract manufacturing, design and engineering, design consultancy, design firm, design research, disposable cartridge, genomic DNA, genomics, GUI, high technology, hs design, HSD, human factors, IDSA, industrial design, industrial design new york, industrial design NYC, Innovation, instrument design, Irys, IRYS System, ivd instrumentation, lab equipment, MDM, mechanical engineering, Medical Design Firm, medical device, medical product design, medical start-up company, product design NYC, product development, prototyping, Sparton Medical, user centered design, user interface
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October 26th, 2012

HSD is proud to have been part of the Vectra H1 hand held imaging system design and development. Completely self contained with integrated flash and ranging lights, it’s ready to go with minimal staff training. The system incorporates a wireless transmission to a workstation PC and photographs are captured directly into the patient chart.
Tags: brand identity, camera, Consumer Electronics, design firm, design research, engineering, flash, hand held imaging system, hs design, HSD, human factors, imaging system, industrial design, injection molding, Innovation, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, medical design, medical device, medical product design, Product Design, product development, prototypes, Qmed, rapid protoyping, user centered design, user interface
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October 2nd, 2012

AAMI, The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, is a nonprofit organization supporting the heath care community in the development, management, and use of safe and effective medical technology.
HSD joined AAMI’s Human Factor Engineering Committee to assist in the further development of new standards in the medical design community. Standards such as HE75 assist medical device manufacturers to better conform to FDA 21CFR 820.30 and IEC 62366.
AAMI is the primary source of consensus and timely information on medical instrumentation & technology.
Tags: AAMI, collaborative design, Contextual enquiry, design research, FDA 21CFR 820.30, HE75, HE75 AAMI HE75, hs design, HSD, human factors, IEC 62366, innovative desgin firm, Medical Design Firm, medical design nj, Summative usability study, User interaction design
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September 28th, 2012

HSD helped develop the new Connect Live, a camera mountable 2-GHz microLite HD wireless transmitter. The Connect Live is designed to address both domestic and international broadcasting band requirements within a single unit. HS Design worked with NuComm to develop the Innovative Industrial Design, Brand Identity and Mechanical Engineering. It recently debuted at the 2012 IBC Show and received the TV Technology Europe STAR award this year. The STAR Award (Superior Technology AwardRecipient) is designed to celebrate and showcase the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry. Congratulations to IMT!
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September 14th, 2012

PrimeraDx ICEPlex and C. diff Assay was recently cleared in Europe. PrimeraDx out of Mansfield, MA received the CE Marking for its ICEPlex real time multiplex PCR system and the accompanying C. difficile assay. PrimeraDX partnered with HSD’s usability experts on the creative product design including ethnography, formative user requirements, graphical user interface, industrial design and engineering development of the Instrument and User Interface of the ICEPlex System. For more information about the ICEPlex System click here.
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