Medical Device Sterilization Modality Selection Decision Process

Effects of Sterilization Cycles on PEEK for Medical Device Application

The effects of the sterilization process have been studied on medical grade thermoplastic polyetheretherketone (PEEK). For a reusable medical device, material reliability is an important parameter to decide its lifetime, as it will be subjected to the continuous steam sterilization process. A spring nature, clip component was selected out of a newly designed medical device (patented) to perform...

Modeling of the medical device development process.

Models are abstract representations of reality that are built, analyzed and manipulated to augment the understanding of that reality. They can either be mental or codified but, in both cases, they contribute to good decision-making by ensuring that the right people use the right information at the right time. In order to reduce time to market, companies commonly adopt product development proces...

Safety-cost trade-offs in medical device reuse: a Markov decision process model.

Healthcare expenditures in the US are approaching 2 trillion dollars, and hospitals and other healthcare providers are under tremendous pressure to rein in costs. One cost-saving approach which is gaining popularity is the reuse of medical devices which were designed only for a single use. Device makers decry this practice as unsanitary and unsafe, but a growing number of third-party firms are ...

Decision Support in the Source Selection Process

The complexity of federal acquisition is increasing. Our ability as humans to mentally assimilate new laws, regulations, policies, and procedures into the existing body of knowledge in the acquisition field has already been surpassed. This paper will explore an emerging technique, known as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), that promises to help acquisition managers make rational decisions i...

Improving the medical decision-making process.