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In it for the long-term: Design wearables that win skin and the market

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Duration: 30 min

Join Solvers Audrey Sherman and Dan Durenberger for tips and considerations on bringing wearables to market, plus a look at the launch of 3M™ Medical Tape 4578.

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Collaboration counts: How to choose a manufacturing partner for point-of-care tests

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Duration: 30 min

Join Solvers David Franta and Jeff Furbush for tips on finding the right partner for your point-of-care diagnostics and a look at the launch of 3M™ Microfluidic Diagnostic Tape 9795T.

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Championing the Future of Wellness

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Duration: 30 min

A collaboration between Solventum and AdCal Inc. showcasing wellness trends toward natural, wearable solutions. Tune in to learn about the industry and manufacturing of nutraceuticals.

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Bringing better health to all: How we find meaning in MedTech

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Duration: 30 min

It's no secret that MedTech plays a key role in ensuring good health and wellbeing for all, and there are many ways to achieve this goal. Join us to explore the possibilities. Plus, we want to know: What are your ideas?

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The future is digital: How next-generation wearables will advance the healthcare experience

Consumers — from world-class athletes to everyday people — are already using wearables to track sleep, count steps and monitor health. As of 2020, BCC Research indicates that approximately 151 million Apple watches had been shipped. Among American and British consumers, Fitbit remains the most popular brand of wearable. Wearables are here to stay, but what they do, how they function and what they track will evolve — and advance.

The future is digital: How next-generation wearables will advance the healthcare experience

Designing Wearable Devices for Fragile Skin

What used to require a hospital stay may now be done remotely, using a small wearable body patch. No need to be hooked up to machines wearing open air hospital gowns. Success of stick to skin wearable monitoring devices relies heavily on accuracy, design and the device’s secure attachment to the body throughout the required wear time

Designing Wearable Devices for Fragile Skin

Key Considerations for Scaling Microfluidic Devices

Microfluidic devices transform lives. Thanks to modern technology and miniaturization of diagnostic tests it’s possible to diagnose from almost anywhere—right at the point of care. This ability to get answers and explore treatment options, immediately, has incredible implications for patients and providers around the globe

Key Considerations for Scaling Microfluidic Devices

The Engineer’s Guide to Wearables: Lessons Learned from Design Mishaps

Change in healthcare and the pace of medtech innovation is moving faster than ever. Like clinicians, wearable device design engineers have an important role to play in healthcare today. Device manufacturers must continually evolve their offerings to keep pace

The Engineer’s Guide to Wearables: Lessons Learned from Design Mishaps

Clinical Conundrums - A design engineer's guide to clinical trials: Understanding the basics

Mapping out your clinical trials early on can help yield the best results. With some studies lasting up to 90 days, they require foresight, planning and persistence. It can also mean that at some point, the question will get asked if the testing was conducted using good laboratory practices (GLP)

Clinical Conundrums - A design engineer's guide to clinical trials: Understanding the basics

Manufacturing Challenges

When you first embark on a new medical device development project, manufacturing can feel like a long way off. It might be weeks, months or a year or more away, and with all that needs to happen before then, it can be hard to dedicate the time to think through manufacturing’s effects on the final product. It can very much feel “out of sight, out of mind”

Manufacturing Challenges

Applying Perception Science to Wearable Medical Device Design

Medical tapes need to stick to skin and stay— reliably. Then they need to get unstuck — as painlessly as possible. Changing adhesive dressings is considered one of the most painful aspects of long-term wound care (Hollinworth & Collier, 2000). Adhesive removal can cause erythema, edema, stripping of superficial cell layers, and skin tears. These outcomes are collectively referred to as Medical Adhesive Related Skin Injury, or MARSI (McNichol et al., 2013)

Applying Perception Science to Wearable Medical Device Design

Sweat Analysis: An Emerging Technology for Assessing Health

Sweat. We usually try to avoid it – but sweat helps regulate our body temperature and provides insight into our health. The keys to using sweat in monitoring and diagnosis include choosing the right analyte (for some purposes, sweat analyte levels should correlate with blood analyte levels) and getting enough sample to detect. Sweat sensing technology is still in its infancy. We have a lot to learn and discover

Sweat Analysis: An Emerging Technology for Assessing Health

From Mind to Market

For every 1,000 experiments Solventum Scientist Audrey Sherman attempts, one succeeds. “You know the route to the grocery store,” Audrey explains. “You follow it, and you’re guaranteed a successful outcome.” Audrey’s job is to take the road less traveled. “We go where people haven’t gone before.” A similar approach applies when taking a device from mind to market

From Mind to Market

Sterilization 101

Sterilization directly effects device design. Some sterilization methods may alter certain material properties. For example, gamma radiation causes most polypropylenes to stiffen and degrade. Because of its influence, the sterilization method can define which materials to use in some projects. If that is the case, be sure to use a sterilization mode compatible with the material

Sterilization 101

A Vulnerability In The Body Armor

Are you a fan of the Middle Ages? Alfred the Great, Edward the Black Prince and Baibars the Mamluk are prominent warriors from that time, and they often went into battle wearing powerful armor for protection. Just like armor shields the warriors, skin shields us. It’s our armor and it protects our body. Sometimes, our armor undergoes an attack. A common culprit? MARSI

A Vulnerability In The Body Armor

Interstitial Fluid: It Speaks Volumes

Interstitial fluid is having a moment. Today’s patients and providers want information immediately, and interstitial fluid can deliver. In fact, interstitial fluid often gives insight into conditions before blood can. In this paper, we’ll look at interstitial fluid’s diagnostic capabilities– but first let’s learn what interstitial fluid is and how it is formed in the body

Interstitial Fluid: It Speaks Volumes

Science of Skin: Potential Problems When Sticking to the Skin of a Diabetic

Damage to the skin because of diabetes is like other adverse events involving the skin since abnormalities will compound in an additive way to already existing changes. For example, it is a well recognized phenomenon that aging skin will be less resilient to external stresses

Science of Skin: Potential Problems When Sticking to the Skin of a Diabetic

Guidance for Designing Blood Glucose Test Strips

Blood glucose test strip accuracy is paramount, and it all starts with flawless design. Each layer within the strip has a critical function and needs to be able to do its job and work together without interference from other layers or external contamination

Guidance for Designing Blood Glucose Test Strips

Stick to Skin: A New Way for Medical Wearables

Medical wearables play a key role in enablement of positive care outcomes and help simplify care management – changing patient quality of life for the better. But when it comes to designing an effective wearable device, numerous considerations must be taken into account

Stick to Skin: A New Way for Medical Wearables

Designing devices with European Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) in mind

In the world of medical devices – rules and regulations reign. Make sure your device complies with local requirements to help with the approval process and ensure people will have access to your potentially lifetransforming technologies. Of course, these rules and regulations are ever-changing. That’s why staying current is crucial; it can help expedite the process and mitigate delays

Designing devices with European Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) in mind

A Guide to Manufacturing Microfluidic Device Key Components

Microfluidic devices can signal the difference between health and illness. They monitor blood glucose, genetic biomarkers, screen for cancer, and more. They can detect pathogens and genetic biomarkers. Accuracy and the right materials are paramount as you design and manufacture these critical tools

A Guide to Manufacturing Microfluidic Device Key Components

Understanding skin and designing wearable devices

When skin is damaged, it can negatively impact our psychological and physical health. The skin’s ability to act as a barrier depends on a variety of factors, including: structure of skin, genetics and lifestyle, environmental factors, skin changes over our lifetime and underlying conditions and diseases

Understanding skin and designing wearable devices

Med Tech Gurus podcasts

Med Tech Gurus is a podcast that helps medical device executives stay on the leading edge of their industry. Explore the episodes below to hear from 3M experts.

The Many Stages Of Development By: Pat Wright

Pat Wright, an Account Manager with Addev Inc, explains how you can avoid pitfalls that can cost you and your team precious time and money as you start to scale.

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Why You Should Know A Converter By: Kevin Pickett

Kevin Pickett, the Global Business Development Manager with Marian, Inc, explains how to reduce frustration and help save time as your technology enters the manufacturing and scale phase.

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The Process of Scaling Manufacturing By: Abbi Johnson

Abbi Johnson, Solventum product development engineer, shares her tips for successful manufacturing at scale.

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In Patient Care One Size Doesn’t Fit All By: Robin Huneke Rosenberg

Robin Huneke Rosenberg, 3M clinical product support leader, explains why customization matters in medical device design.

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A Blueprint For Quality & Scale By: Abbi Johnson & Audrey Sherman

We welcome back two good friends of Med Tech Gurus, Ms. Abbi Johnson Project Manager and Audrey Sherman Division Scientist at 3M. These two are dynamo’s when it comes to the best practices of how to scale with a quality focus.

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Medical technologies OEM resources

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Featured webinars

In it for the long-term: Design wearables that win skin and the market

Collaboration counts: How to choose a manufacturing partner for point-of-care tests

Championing the Future of Wellness

Bringing better health to all: How we find meaning in MedTech

Let's get technical! Read our whitepapers and eBooks

Collaboration That Improves Care

Enabling Better, Smarter, Safer Healthcare for All

An Inside Look at Point-of-Care Testing

Championing the Future of Wellness

Designing wearables that win skin in the market

The future is digital: How next-generation wearables will advance the healthcare experience

Designing Wearable Devices for Fragile Skin

Key Considerations for Scaling Microfluidic Devices

The Engineer’s Guide to Wearables: Lessons Learned from Design Mishaps

Clinical Conundrums - A design engineer's guide to clinical trials: Understanding the basics

Manufacturing Challenges

Applying Perception Science to Wearable Medical Device Design

Sweat Analysis: An Emerging Technology for Assessing Health

From Mind to Market

Sterilization 101

A Vulnerability In The Body Armor

Interstitial Fluid: It Speaks Volumes

Science of Skin: Potential Problems When Sticking to the Skin of a Diabetic

Guidance for Designing Blood Glucose Test Strips

Stick to Skin: A New Way for Medical Wearables

Designing devices with European Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) in mind

A Guide to Manufacturing Microfluidic Device Key Components

Understanding skin and designing wearable devices

Med Tech Gurus podcasts

Med Tech Gurus is a podcast that helps medical device executives stay on the leading edge of their industry. Explore the episodes below to hear from 3M experts.

The Many Stages Of Development By: Pat Wright

Why You Should Know A Converter By: Kevin Pickett

The Process of Scaling Manufacturing By: Abbi Johnson

In Patient Care One Size Doesn’t Fit All By: Robin Huneke Rosenberg

A Blueprint For Quality & Scale By: Abbi Johnson & Audrey Sherman

Find a Converter by Application

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