IDC Outlines Merits of Plastics in Design at PMD

IDC projects director, Brian Gough, delivered a key presentation at this year’s Plastics in Medical Devices (Brussels, May 2009), suggesting that the design opportunities offered by plastics are almost infinite - providing you ask the right questions from the outset.

The presentation highlighted a range of factors affecting plastics choice in design when developing a world class medical device. Addressing the essential issues of device application and risk classification, as well as regulation, testing and compliance, Gough drew on several award-winning medical products designed by IDC to illustrate how to tackle the central points in the process.

Continue reading 19 June 2009

IDC Designs Insulin Pens for Indian Market

Award winning product designer, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC), has just completed a project to develop both disposable and reusable insulin pens for Indian consumers. The resulting products are expected to dramatically advance diabetes treatment in India, by offering a portable, discreet, quick and easy insulin dosage system for users on the move.

Indian company, Wockhardt, was keen to introduce affordable disposable and reusable insulin pens to Indian healthcare but the patent restrictions on existing designs were such that they were unable to cost-effectively go into production. In order to overcome this, Wockhardt contracted IDC to design a completely new insulin pen, which would give class-leading functionality and avoid all the existing patents. Virtually all elements of the conventional insulin pens were patented, so IDC was challenged to find successful design alternatives, which also resulted in an improved product.

Continue reading 12 February 2008

Breakthrough for Endotracheal & Tracheostomy Tubes

IDC (Industrial Design Consultancy) has just completed a groundbreaking medical design project to produce the LMA LoTrach™ Cuff Pressure Controller for Endotracheal and Tracheostomy tubes. Designed for Venner Trading (Singapore) Pte Ltd to work with LMA LoTrach™ Endotracheal and Tracheostomy tubes, the system is set to help save the lives of many critical care patients by preventing VAP (Ventilator Associated Pneumonia).

Continue reading 5 January 2008

IDC Demonstrates Innovative Design at Medica 2007

Press release, September 2007
Awarding winning product designer, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC), will be showcasing some of its most groundbreaking medical product designs at Medica 2007.

Over the last year, products have included the world’s first personal ECG (Electrocardiogram) heart monitor, as well as a pioneering LMA LoTrach™ Cuff Pressure Controller for LMA LoTrach™ Endotracheal and Tracheostomy tubes to help prevent lung infections such as pneumonia in intensive care patients.

Continue reading 25 September 2007

Intelligent Personal ECG Heart Monitor

Thousands of people potentially at risk from heart disease are set to benefit from the world’s first personal ECG (Electrocardiogram) heart monitor from Medick Healthcare. Designed for consumers by the award-winning product design and innovation consultancy, Industrial Design Consultancy Ltd (IDC), the portable Medick Heart Monitor (MHM 100) has been carefully produced for an increasingly technology-savvy and health aware mature generation.

Continue reading 25 February 2007

Revolutionary Heart Monitor

The Daily Telegraph 24 October 2006
A technology venture that has spent £8m developing a revolutionary heart monitor is preparing for launch as the NHS shake-up reaches doctors’ surgeries. The C.Net5000, created by the software business Cardionetics, is a portable, fist-sized device that identifies abnormal heart rhythms linked to strokes and cardiac diseases. Patients simply strap on the battery-powered equipment and the results of a 24-hour observation are displayed on a built in screen.

Continue reading 24 October 2006