Medical devices

The UK Ventilator Challenge made sure everyone in the UK who needed a ventilator got one during the coronavirus pandemic. To achieve this, we coordinated the public and private sectors to overcome one of the toughest challenges of recent times.

Moving to sustainable materials isn’t a trivial task. There are scientific and engineering challenges, regulatory hurdles and a need to benchmark the green credentials of different materials. And organisations need to do all this without increasing cost or reducing performance.

As the post-pandemic focus moves beyond crisis care, MedTech firms have an opportunity to lead the evolution to new models of care by focusing more on patient-led solutions. Here’s four steps to get started on that journey.

PA Consulting’s life sciences experts Mayur Patel and Eoin Sheridan discuss the different design approaches that can be used to develop sustainable drug delivery devices.

PA Consulting’s medical device Human Factors experts, Philip Lance and Charlotte Redden, discuss how testing medical devices on target users in their own homes has brought about challenges as well as unexpected benefits due to COVID-19.

PA medtech experts Marck Aghnatios and Alistair Fleming discuss the benefits and opportunities of migrating care from hospital to the home environment.

PA Consulting's Deepa Shukla and Ashley MacNaughton, healthcare experts, consider the use of Digital Twin Technologies to revolutionise healthcare.

Three questions that health and life sciences organizations must answer before starting a Software as a Medical Device project.

Tyler Reynolds and Nadeem Fazal, health and life sciences experts at PA, share three steps that life sciences companies can take to run virtual clinical trials.