Medical Design Excellence Awards
2011 MDEA Jury Panel
Apr 07, 2011
Jim Best is a founding partner and principal of Pensa (New York City), a strategic design consultancy. Best started his career designing medical equipment...
MDEA 2010: Winning Products and Suppliers
Apr 17, 2010
Critical-Care and Emergency Medicine Products   AccuVein AV300 portable, noncontact vein illumination device, manufactured and submitted by AccuVein...
Jurors Turn an Experienced Eye Toward Design
Apr 02, 2010
  Gail D. Baura, PhD, is a professor at Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences in Claremont, CA. She teaches classes in the medical devices and...
Survival of the Smartest
Apr 01, 2010
As medical device technology evolves and manufacturers create products that do more with less, the industry has seen an influx of devices with sophisticated...
Tomorrow’s Design in Today’s Healthcare
Apr 01, 2006
MDEA 2006 Outstanding medical devices can represent tremendous leaps forward or can advance a technology in small but significant ways. They can foster...
MDEA Jurors Bring Insight, Expertise to Awards
Apr 01, 2006
  Originally Published MDDI April 2006 MDEA 2006 MDEA 2006 The Medical Design Excellence Awards couldn't survive without discerning adjudication. This...
Award-Winning Devices Get Better All the Time
Apr 01, 2006
MDEA 2006 It is difficult to talk about innovation without using comparative terms (as in faster, safer, better). After all, rewarding a product that improves...
Changing Healthcare Delivery through New Technologies
Apr 01, 2006
MDEA 2006 When a new device comes on the market, it is often a simple upgrade of something already available. It's not only difficult—it can be quite...
Design Excellence Comes to Small Markets, Too
Apr 01, 2006
MDEA 2006 It seems that only a limited number of medical device types—usually those that have big effects on lucrative markets—grab the headlines....
Winning Products and Suppliers
Apr 01, 2006
MDEA 2006 Critical-Care and Emergency Medicine Products Rugged Power-Pro XT ambulance cot, manufactured and submitted by Stryker EMS (Portage, MI). See...