Doing Right Things When Designing Medical Devices

• By: Dev Raheja
• Date: June 07, 2011
• Source: ComplianceOnline

Dr. W. Edward Deming, the architect of Japan’s world dominance in quality, used to say “working hard won’t help if you are working on the wrong things.” While this may not be quite appealing to many medical device developers, the opposite paradigm seems to make sense, which is, “working hard won’t help unless we are working on the right things.” This paradigm is a good value statement for medical devices. Therefore, we will discuss what some right things that are often overlooked are.