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Looking Back at a Pioneer in DTx and SaMD - Propeller Health in 2013

digital health, digital therapeutics, SaMD

In Orthogonal’s digital archives, we recently came across a presentation and extended Q&A session from 2013 at a Chicago Lean Startup Circle event we helped organize.  The event featured David Van Sickle, the co-founder and CEO of Propeller Health.  In a talk titled Propeller Health: Fast Feedback Loops in an FDA Regulated Environment, David discussed […]

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AI and the Design of Medical Devices: It's Getting Better All The Time

AI & machine learning, digital health, SaMD

Orthogonal was excited that Bernhard Kappe, our CEO and Founder, spoke at Virtual Engineering Week on Friday, December 4th, 2020 on the topic of AI & Machine Learning in Medical Devices: It’s Getting Better All the Time. This talk was hosted by Informa and their Medical Device + Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) media property. (Shout outs […]

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What Five Digital Health Experts Learned in 2020

digital health, SaMD

We didn’t predict at the beginning of 2020, but this has been one heck of a year in healthcare and life sciences, especially in terms of digital health, connected care, and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).  We’ve all certainly learned a lot. Curious what others have learned, we’ve been reaching out to a wide […]

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Digital Health in 2020 - Learning from the University of Hard Knocks

digital health

We didn’t predict it on January 1, 2020, but this has been one heck of a year in healthcare and life sciences, especially in terms of digital health and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).  We’ve been reaching out to a wide range of industry leaders, thinkers, and pioneers in the spaces of digital health, […]

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What the Experts Learned in 2020: SaMD, Digital Health, Cybersecurity

SaMD

We didn’t predict it on January 1, 2020, but this has been one heck of a year in healthcare and life sciences, especially in terms of digital health and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). We’ve been reaching out to a wide range of industry leaders, thinkers, and pioneers in the spaces of digital health, […]

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What the Experts Learned in 2020 About SaMD and Digital Health

SaMD

We didn’t predict it on January 1, 2020, but this has been one heck of a year in healthcare and life sciences, especially in terms of digital health and Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).   We’ve been reaching out to a wide range of industry leaders, thinkers, and pioneers in the spaces of digital health, […]

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The Evolution from Patient to Healthcare Consumer with a Lifestyle

Human Factors & UX, patient engagement, SaMD

This blog is the first in an ongoing series exploring the crucial linkage between successful Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and patient engagement. The overall theme of this series is that SaMD (and other permutations of connected medical devices) are poised to have a huge impact on the outcomes and ROI that we get […]

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Pharma Experts Weigh in on Challenges to Frequent Releases in Design

cloud, Human Factors & UX

After writing the first three blogs in our series on frequent releases for connected medical devices, we were curious about what our colleagues in the medical device industry had experienced – what difficulties have they encountered when trying to implement a frequent-release cycle? How have they worked to overcome these difficulties? We reached out to […]

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Erik B's First Day: 8:30AM. The Olive Garden. By the Roller Coasters.

cloud

Erik Bjorlund had a fairly unusual first day on the job at Orthogonal. Unusual for him, and for us as well. A good day, but definitely unusual. Who is Erik? On Friday, August 21, we introduced Erik Bjorklund to the Orthogonal team. Erik joined us as a software engineer and has particular strength in Android […]

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Orthogonal Staff Zooming through Summer 2020: Great Work & Margaritas

cloud

Life and Work in the Summer of 2020 Nothing beats the team-building value of face-to-face all-staff events. But what happens when events are restricted due to coronavirus and we have to use Zoom? At Orthogonal, we make lemonade out of lemons. Or in this case, margaritas with limes. It’s not an understatement to say that […]

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Cloud Computing in Medical Devices: Safe, Compliant, Effective. How?

cloud, FDA, medical device software development

The cloud is eating the world, including medical devices. As of early 2020, worldwide cloud infrastructure service revenue was over $96 billion, with the combined market share of the three largest vendors, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, at approximately 60%.  Cloud revenues of these three vendors have grown by over 50% per year since 2013. Part […]

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Nanowear's New Clinical Trial Fights COVID-19 with Connected Wearables

digital health

The entire Orthogonal team offers a huge congratulations (and thanks!) to Nanowear and its supporters and investors[1] for launching a groundbreaking COVID-19 research project in partnership with two major health systems in the NY Metro region: Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY is one of the largest independent academic medical centers in the country, training […]

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