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  • Two laboratory professionals in cleanroom attire, including hair covers, masks, and gloves, working in a high-tech lab. One person is using a microscope at a workstation, while the other operates a machine in the background. The environment is clean and well-organized, featuring advanced scientific equipment and tools.

    8 Cleanroom Best Practices to Maintain a CLEAN State 

    Cleanroom best practices are crucial to maintain a contamination-free environment, especially in industries like pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, biotechnology, healthcare, and medical devices. Here are some essential guidelines for ensuring your cleanroom is indeed clean.

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    Medical Device Design Transfer Process

    Medical device design transfer is a critical phase in the development process, marking the transitory phase from the design and development stage to manufacturing.  This phase ensures that the medical device continues to meet its safety, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance once production begins.  It is the final phase in the development process and sometimes overlooks or underestimates the amount of time and effort required to ensure that final manufactured devices meet requirements. 

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    Benefits and Role of Systems Engineering in Medical Device Development

    Systems-thinking must always be present in medical device development. Systems Engineers (SEs) live where complex development needs managing. In a very small project team people can communicate continuously and tightly enough that everybody understands where they’re headed and what’s going on.

  • Two professionals wearing festive holiday hats and plaid shirts sit in a snowy winter-themed setting. The text overlay reads "Santa's Health: A Medical Device Makeover," highlighting a playful discussion on medical innovations and healthcare improvements.

    Bio Break: Helping Santa with Medical Innovations

    In this festive episode of Bio Break, Joris and Nick bring a holiday twist to medical device innovation by discussing how modern technology could improve Santa’s health. Using a lighthearted analogy, they explore the challenges of managing conditions like diabetes and how advancements in drug delivery devices, such as Ozempic injection systems, could make a difference.

  • Two professionals wearing plaid shirts and microphones engage in a discussion in a laboratory setting. The text overlay reads "Designing SAFE Drug Delivery Systems," emphasizing the focus on precision and safety in medical device design.

    Bio Break: Addressing Shear in Drug Delivery Device Design

    In this episode of Bio Break, Joris van der Heijden and Nick Allan explore one of the most critical challenges in drug delivery device design: shear stress. When designing systems for biologics and gene therapies, avoiding shear stress is essential to ensure the viability and activity of biomolecules like proteins, antibodies, and viruses.

  • Medtech Entrepreneur Webinars

    2024 Top Medtech Entrepreneur Webinars

    2024 Medtech Entrepreneur Webinars feature both standard expertise webinars and livecast recordings from Playbook events in Vancouver, Canada and Newport Beach, California.

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    2024 Top Medical Device Blogs

    2024 Top Medical Device Blogs written in 2024 and the 10 most read evergreen blogs during 2024 include three new authors, two group blogs and five articles from blogging veterans.

  • Top Medical Device Videos

    2024 Top Medical Device Videos

    2024 Top Medical Device Videos features a round up of most viewed medical device videos from StarFish Medical includes a mix of new videos released in 2024 along with evergreen videos sharing medical device expertise. 

  • Two professionals in plaid shirts and microphones sit in a discussion within a laboratory setting. The text overlay reads "Innovative Olfactory Drug Delivery: Bypassing the Blood-Brain Barrier," highlighting a focus on advanced medical techniques.

    Bio Break: Surprising Innovations in Olfactory Drug Delivery

    In this episode of Bio Break, Joris van der Heijden and Nick Allan explore one of the most innovative approaches in drug delivery: olfactory drug delivery. This cutting-edge method targets the olfactory region of the nose, offering a direct pathway to deliver drugs into the brain while bypassing the blood-brain barrier. Unlike traditional intranasal delivery, this highly specialized technique uses neural pathways to achieve precise and effective results.