Continuum called on to make med devices more home-friendly
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With hospitals, insurers and government agencies backing initiatives to move patients out of hospitals and back home on the fast track, designers and manufacturers of medical devices are facing the challenge of adapting sophisticated medical equipment for the home environment. James Wilson, senior industrial designer for design firm Continuum has been working with various manufacturers to design products such as monitoring equipment and CPAP devices to make them more suitable for what Continuum calls the Hospital of One. Wilson shares his thoughts on the trends in designing home-environment medical devices with Mass High Tech Editor James M. Connolly.
