HS Design, Inc.

GE Healthcare announced today the shipment of the Omnyx™ VL4 scanner to beta customers worldwide.  To date, six Omnyx VL4 scanners have been shipped and are in operation for testing purposes. This marks a significant milestone in Omnyx’s efforts to deliver a leading Integrated Digital Pathology solution.  The Omnyx solution will be demonstrated at the upcoming Pathology Visions conference in San Diego.

The scanner is tightly integrated to an enterprise software solution that enables high-speed digital viewing over standard networks and provides a complete digital workflow for research use for both the pathologist and histology personnel.

HSD partnered with Omnyx, assisting in Design Research, Industrial Design, GUI, Engineering and prototyping leading to the successful manufacturing launch of the new VL4 scanner.

BioMarker Strategies was recently awarded an additional NCI SBIR contract to develop companion diagnostic test and raises $2.3M in investments.  HS Design was hired by BioMarker Strategies to work on the development of user research, usability, design and development for both the SnapPath™ Platform  including the instrument, Graphical user interface (GUI) and injection molded disposable cartridge.  The program will see HS Design working with BioMarker Strategies towards the complete development of its benchtop instrument for clinical trials and commercial release. The SnapPath™ biomarker testing system* is an automated live tumor cell processing platform that enables next-generation predictive tests—known as Functional Signaling Profiles (FSPs)—to guide targeted drug therapy selection for individual cancer patients.  http://www.genomeweb.com/dxpgx/biomarker-strategies-wins-nci-grant-biomarker-system

HSD collaborated with Omnyx, a GE healthcare company over the past three years in developing a full line of digital pathology solutions and peripheral devices. The designs of both the manual VL4 and The VL120 were created through careful understanding of the clinical pathologist and histologists needs.

We worked with Omnyx’s highly skilled team through all phases of the products development, including market research, industrial design, engineering, graphic User Interface design (GUI),  FEA simulation, Prototyping, FDA documentation control through manufacturing liaison. The complete solution included close involvement with Pathologist to develop an intuitive, easy to use interface and high quality high speed scanning.  The VL 120 was developed with automated control with no manual intervention needed.

Understand how utilizing FERSA, front end research and system architecture, speeds up the product development path.  Tor Alden, Partner of HS Design illustrates the importance of the product development team’s understanding the environment and workflow when designing medical products.  Check out the recent article in the June 2011 issue of Medical Design magazine <http://medicaldesign.com/engineering-prototyping/research-development/role-of-fersa-0511/>

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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT INSIGHT for User-Centered Design and the Medical Device Start-Up  The MDDI article by Tor Alden of HS Design focuses on the increased need for user centered design for medical start-up companies.  Click here to Download PDF of Article.