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Mass Customization of Medical Devices for Quality of Life
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Healthcare is an inherently risky sector for innovation. In particular,
breakthrough innovations pose an even greater risk for investment
and potential consequences for the end user. These factors make
the healthcare sector inherently risk averse, resulting in medical
devices that become outdated.
This research highlights the maker movement as an opportunity
to reevaluate how medical devices are perceived, and presents
Quality of Life as a factor to focus on in order to encourage
breakthrough innovation. By employing tools of the maker
movement, and designing a new business model using a lean
approach, this research assess new technologies as a way of
empowering medical device users to take ownership of their
devices.
The final design project for this thesis involves a custom sit-ski,
which would disrupt the traditional methods for building and
distributing custom sit-skis and athletic wheelchairs. -
- Date created
- 2016-01-11
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- Type of Item
- Research Material