Digital Health Plays Larger Role in MDEA for 2019

For more than 20 the Medical Design Excellence Awards have celebrated medtech products that improve the quality of healthcare and accessibility. From prosthetic legs to breast pumps, over the years, MDEA has always been a spotlight of the greatest innovation in medtech. This year was no different – with a wide variety of innovations coming from all segments of medtech. Just like any other year, jurors from all over the country shuffled into a conference room at the Anaheim Convention Center to see which products would be finalists for the MDEA. One trend seemed to stand out – the increasing presence and digital health technologies. MD+DI has been tracking trends in past awards programs, so they’re not necessarily new. When the program was launched in 1998, we noted a trend in the very first group of MDEA finalists toward “meaningful focus on the patient.” Nearly two years ago, MD+DI reported that due to the increasing adoption of health apps and other tools, the digital health market is expected to grow to $60 billion in 2020 – an increase of 33%. Those stats began bleeding into this year’s MDEA awards. (It should be noted that in 2018 digital health products did not make it as finalists for MDEA.) It can be difficult to judge the design of a digital health technology especially if it’s an app. During the February judging, one juror j...
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