Usability Emerges as Key Theme in 15th Annual Medical Design Excellence Awards

Many of the finalists is this year's MDEA competition show influence from the consumer technology as the products depicted here demonstrate. Shown counterclockwise from the upper-right: t:slim from Tandem Diabetes Care (San Diego), the mySentry from Medtronic Diabetes (Northridge, CA), the ViSi Mobile system from Sotera Wireless (San Diego), and the Liposonix device from Liposonix (Hayward, CA).For more on the MDEA awards, see the slideshow titled "The Winners' Circle: 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards."