“Safety is key with syringe use, and with more and more drugs being administered at home by novice users, the potential for misuse has only heightened,” explained Fenster. “Add-on safety devices help prevent issues, but they also have the potential to be used incorrectly. That’s why clear instructions for use are so important.”
Drawing on their own experiences in a variety of Human Factors leadership roles Kaleidoscope’s Director of Insights & Human Factors Valerie Fenster and RB Design’s Conne Mara Bazley will highlight the challenges that arise throughout the complaint process, and then facilitate a discussion for how to avoid and address those issues.
Join representatives from Kaleidoscope Innovation as we attend the 2019 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, April 28 – May 2, in Vancouver, Canada. Kaleidoscope team members attending the conference include Ophthalmology Team Lead & Engineering Manager Ben Ko and Business Development Manager Matt Suits.
Representatives from Kaleidoscope Innovation will attend the 2019 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care, March 24 – 27 in Chicago. We encourage you to join us! Kaleidoscope team members attending the conference include Director of Insights & Human Factors Valerie Fenster and Business Development Manager Matt Suits.
With Kaleidoscope’s investment and experience in ophthalmic medical devices and pharmaceuticals, we could not pass up the opportunity to attend a professional event this large in the ophthalmology space. Kaleidoscope Innovation’s Staff Biomedical Engineer Ben Ko, Staff Industrial Designer Frank Busch, Design Engineer Stephanie Klunk, Senior Design Engineer Tom Meyer and Business Development Manager Matt Suits all attended this year’s AAO congress in Chicago. Here are some of their collective takeaways:
New look, location and lab spaces, along with expanded human factors engineering capabilities, position the organization’s business partners for success
Kaleidoscope Innovation realized early in its business journey that the individuals, organizations and companies they worked with could benefit from insights, design and development services through one of two different channels: consultancy and onsite services. This case study examines the onsite services side of the business and the benefits it brings to the firm’s partners.
Three of our Kaleidoscope Innovation staff recently connected with other professionals, students and job-seekers at BioOhio’s 2018 Ohio Bioscience Expo and Showcase. Vice President of Research and Development, Medical Mike Clem, DVM, MS; Business Development Manager Matt Suits; and Staff Engineer Daniel Hutchins, PE all represented Kaleidoscope Innovation at the event, hosting a booth and speaking with attendees.
With over 30 years of developing powerful and user-centered design, new director brings human‐focused insight and passion to this critical leadership role.
Food is a language in and of itself – one we all share in common. Kaleidoscope Innovation’s New Business Development Manager Matt Suits, in an exciting program called The Shift, worked with his teammates to help develop Cincinnati’s Table. This initiative is dedicated to bridging people of varying cultures, backgrounds and languages in Cincinnati using the dinner table (and design thinking best practices).
Kaleidoscope® Innovation is making impressive changes, including moving their Cincinnati headquarters and refreshing their brand, to support their transformational vision and aggressive plans for future growth and capabilities expansion.
Building a team for innovation? Wish you could get tips from an experienced innovation leader about how to structure teams for performance and results? In part 2 of this series on building the ideal innovation team, Kaleidoscope VP of R&D, Medical, Michael Clem DVM, MS, shares his insights and best practices. In this article, we’ll look at a “category structure” for lean-type startups. This is a different perspective from the “functional structure” for building the ideal innovation teams covered in part 1. (5-minute read.)
Kaleidoscope launches a VR Demo Lab Experience to help customers imagine the possibilities. As a creator of VR applications for top brands in the consumer, industrial, healthcare and automotive industries, Kaleidoscope realized that some teams may have challenges grasping the full potential.
This is part one of a two-part series about innovation leadership and the ideal innovation team, by Kaleidoscope VP of R&D, Medical, Michael Clem DVM, MS. In this article, he examines the functional and cross-functional expertise needed to drive the best innovation resources to turn creative ideas into quality products that benefit consumers.
In its mission to innovate through collaboration, Kaleidoscope has launched Ascend Innovations, a unique enterprise that brings together healthcare and military research with Kaleidoscope’s proven design practices. Ascend unites the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association (GDAHA), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and other community partners with the goal of combining human-centered design and state-of-the-art technology to produce commercially viable solutions in human health and performance.