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Lean AI

Lean AI: Accelerate Engineering with AI and Lean Principles

By Adam Hesse
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How does combining AI with Lean Management significantly improve efficiency in MedTech engineering? AI, much like IDEs or CAD tools before it, is becoming an essential enabler in reducing friction throughout the product development lifecycle—from onboarding and requirements generation to coding and testing—ultimately enhancing both productivity and innovation. By identifying and targeting inefficiencies using Lean principles, MedTech engineering organizations can unlock AI’s full potential to accelerate development and deliver higher-quality healthcare technologies.

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Roy Shuvo, Ph.D.

Device Development: A Hybrid Implantable Kidney

By MedTech Intelligence Staff
Roy Shuvo, Ph.D.

Shuvo Roy, Ph.D., Professor of Bioengineering at UCSF and Technical Director of The Kidney Project, and his research partners have developed an artificial kidney constructed of semiconductor silicon wafers that remove waste and toxins from the blood and a cell therapy unit that replicates other kidney functions. Their prototype, powered entirely by blood pressure, filtered blood and created urine in a pre-clinical trial.

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Michael Earl
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Digitalizing Drug Delivery – What’s Next?

By Michael Earl
Michael Earl

Connected devices already enable remote patient monitoring by collecting real-time data, such as injection date and time. With time, these benefits are likely to grow. Following are three areas where manufacturers are exploring new uses of digitalization in drug delivery to better understand the needs of patients and healthcare professionals and create more effective devices.

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CRO Avania Acquires MAXIS

By MedTech Intelligence Staff
Avania and MAXIS logos

The acquisition brings MAXIS’ expertise in pre-clinical engineering, design validation and verification, regulatory affairs, field clinical services, and trial management to Avania’s contract research and MedTech development capabilities.

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