Product (re)development | Conceptual engineering
Cost-effective product (re)design for healthcare
Mission and method
To improve existing medical products to increase cost-effectiveness: to (internationally) co-operate with medical doctors, practitioners, technology institutes, researchers and manufacturers to reconsider existing medical products on cost-effectiveness and practical use.
To help seeking out existing medical product (disposables, instruments) that can be improved upon due to advances in the field of application, technology or otherwise.
To find, by observation, interview or literature, opportunities for redesign, shift of application or change of business model that can boost the cost-effectiveness and thus sale of any existing medical product.
To promote innovation by actively seek opportunities for improved products in existing markets, new markets for existing technologies, new business models and new co-operations to market these products. To seek IP, expand within existing IP or work around existing IP.To capture ideas in to extremely cost-effective product designs.
Clients
Product portfolio highlights (non-confidential only)
Tracheostoma patch
Patients without a larynx (laryngectomy patients) can draw many benefits from air filters and/or speech valves on their tracheostoma.
iValve v1
Handsfree speech valve for laryngectomy patients, version 1. Without a larynx, and therefore without vocal cords […]
Blood damage tester (Haemobile)
How do you reliably measure, in the lab, the damage (which leads to blood coagulation) that heart valves and artificial valves […]
Tracheal pressure measurement
At the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, there was a demand for a system for measuring the air pressure in laryngectomy patients […]