healthcare product design engineering + nursing + management

04/22/2008 RCHE Conference on Research Solution for Healthcare

Healthcare Product Design

Engineering + Nursing + Management

Bill Peine, George Chiu – MENancy Edwards – Nursing Leroy Schwarz – MGMT


• Spring 2007– ME senior design + Nursing Leadership class – Improve patient handling and mobility

• Observations– Nursing students are not a part of the design team– Engineering students prefer to have continuous input and

feedback from the “customer”

Prelude


Fall 2007…

• Generate design concept, conceptual prototype, clinical impact study, and business plan in a cross listed multidisciplinary course between Engineering, Nursing, and Management

• Nursing and Management students will be full time members on the design teams

• Engineering students will build functional prototypes in the following semester in Senior Design

• Provides better education on complete design processes and development for everyone


Activities• Identify clinical needs and requirements

– Liaison with healthcare institutions

• Investigate state-of-the-art

• Develop viable business model– Market research and analysis

– Financial analysis and assessment

– Distribution and support

• Concept and engineering design – Process and functionality

– Conceptual and engineering design

– Engineering specifications

– Analysis and feasibility study


Structure

• 1 hour lecture, 1 hour team meeting and 3 hours of “laboratory” work per week

• Project proposal (4th week)• Midterm report• Final presentation to external panel• Deliverables

– Business plan – Engineering specifications and conceptual prototype

• 6 UG (5 ME, 1 MGMT) and 6 graduate students (2 MGMT, 1 DNP, 1 BME, 1 IE, 1 ME)


Requirements

• Ease of use• Assist and improve patient care and well being• Safety and comfort

– patient and care-provider

• Assist and improve patient mobility– Support, standing, walking – out-of-bed

– Managing patient care related equipments

• Viable business model– Well developed business plan


Abdominal CPR Device

Only rhythmic abdominal compression (OAC) device


Crash Cart


Evaluation at SERH


Lessons Learned

• Set common expectations• Adapt to diverse schedules and availabilities• Creative and flexible course schedules

– Offset lectures and laboratory schedules

• Recruit nursing and management graduate students• Provide adequate resource for completing prototypes • Use technology – CAD models, virtual reality, teleconference, • Encourage team effort in all activities


Health Care Product Design Course

ME 597B

Student Perspective

Karalyn Tellio


– Novel Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Replacement

– Medical Image Processing with the goal of creating real time patient specific models from MRI/CT data.

Current Research


– Broad introduction to device development– Applied introduction to device development– Exposes to business, federal regulations, healthcare regulations. Good to know no matter which aspect of the industry you end up entering.

Course Preparation for Field Research


Experiences in Healthcare Environment

– Intimidating• High risk venture

– High reward impact– Communication


Learning from Experiences

– In research and development for the healthcare industry there are three main issues

• Money– Funding/insurance coverage is decreasing so the marketability and cost

of manufacturing become extremely important.

• Time– In the healthcare industry time costs not only in wages but in success

rates of procedures.

• Ease of use – So many products out there, must be able to figure it out on the spot.


Learning from Experiences

– The key to success is Communication• Healthcare professional feedback

– In design and in market potential

healthcare product design engineering + nursing + management

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