“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.
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.
With over 30 years of developing powerful and user-centered design, new director brings human‐focused insight and passion to this critical leadership role.
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.)
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.