Why You Should Consider Augmented Reality to Develop Your Next Medical Device

When HS Design was hired to recreate a client's whole-body dermatology imaging system within one year, the product development firm had its work cut out for it. Canfield Scientific's original imaging system was about 8 feet tall, 8 feet wide, and 3 feet deep and housed 92 cameras strategically placed all around the patient in order to provide a complete view of the patient's skin surface in macro quality resolution with a single capture. Then, the company's software allowed clinicians to map and monitor pigmented lesions and distributed diseases of the skin. So if a patient returned for a second scan after having gained 20 lbs., Canfield's software would be able to identify that a lesion that appeared to have moved because of the patient's weight gain is actually the same lesion. "That was great. They had a software that was able to do everything that they wanted it to do," said Bobby Boyer, a senior mechanical engineer at HS Design, during a conference session at BIOMEDevice Boston. The problem was the way the large-scale imaging system was designed wasn't exactly patient friendly. "Going into this machine, for the user was a little daunting," Boyer said. "It looked like paparazzi was all around you and all of a sudden you have to go into this thing and stand and it's a little scary. So we were tasked with basically recreating the system, housing all of the cameras into smaller pods that are removable and making sure the alignment was proper and that the users would feel com...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: BIOMEDevice Boston Design R & Source Type: news