Training is the foundation to producing products and services that meet regulatory and quality expectations and industrywide acceptance. This is generally true for all products and services, but in particular, for medical devices. Why? Medical devices are not in the same league as any other ordinary product that can be handled by anyone in any manner.Training is the only means by which medical device companies that manufacture medical devices and the staff that handle these products on a daily basis and administer them on patients, can ensure patient safety. Training that imparts a degree of understanding of the methods, processes and technologies in this field is the means to this and to meeting the quality requirements.Training ensures safety and quality in the manufacture and use of medical devicesMedical devices are highly specialized products that require extreme care and diligence when handling. A slight error or carelessness can result in far-reaching consequences that have the…See More

Well, a few things in life can be planned. A few things cannot. If only healthcare could be planned the way we plan our holidays! Despite all the advancements we have made in medical technology and the tall claims of our knowledge of the human mind and body, we are still a long way away from understanding healthcare in all its depth and complexity.This makes predictability about healthcare very erratic and inaccurate. We are still unable to say exactly what causes the most basic or the most complex conditions and diseases, ranging from a simple common cold to maybe cancer. Our understanding of the human body and the application of medical science has led us to pointers at best.Does this mean that all that we have done till now is completely…See More

With almost everything under the sun being touched in one or another way by technology; medical devices are not exempt from this influence. Technology and medical devices have always had a strong bond with each other. Newer technologies that have sprung up over the past few years have accentuated their already strong linkage. So, which new technologies have the potential to impact medical devices in a big way? There are many, but let us consider these among them:Artificial Intelligence: Undoubtedly, the real shaker for the medical devices industry is AI. AI has been around for a while now, but with the major impetus it received with the advent of the cloud, which makes its monstrous amounts of data manageable, AI’s prowess seems more capable of actualizing. Take IBM Watson for instance. It is being seen as a technology that can alter the landscape of…See More