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Hiding in Plain Sight

You’ve seen the ads and heard the pitches. Use this drug, and the aggravating issue you are struggling will be relieved. There is a downside. There could be side effects. Problems. Issues. New things you might struggle with. How do we know this? We tested a statistically significant group of people... willing subjects with their consent for a little cash in their pocket, and discovered that a certain percentage of them suffered from these “side effects” after using the drug.

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The Most Important Thing for Getting Your Medical Device Adopted

All too often however, medical device developers become so enthralled with their technology that they forget to think about the most important thing that leads to device adoption.

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Home Health Care: How the upturn is changing the medical device game.

What does the surge of home healthcare and the and the accountable care act have to do with designing medical devices? Plenty. Tune into this to hear a developers point of view on what is changing, and best practices to approach medical device innovation in this arena.

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Use an Innovation Process That Creates Products that Succeed

There are a lot of ways to develop things, and lots of processes to use. However, 90% of all product development efforts fail. Why?

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Let’s Face It: Medtech Development is Hard

As product developers, inventors, and engineers our human tendency is to chase what appear to be exciting ideas.

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Is Your Design Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Your design may not be a breakthrough, but could it help you break free from some regulatory burden?

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Kablooe Judges “Shark Tank” Event at Minnovate

Kablooe President, Tom KraMer, judged the University of Minnesota's #innovation talent last night at Minnovate's "shark tank" style event.

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How to Lose Money with Innovation Failure

Innovative technology without this main ingredient will fail every time. And failure is not cheap.

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Kablooe Clients are World Changers

We are so proud to be working with game-changers, disrupters, and innovators from many areas within the medical community. People who want to develop products and solutions that positively affect as many lives as possible.

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Organizing a Plan for Chaos

Reducing product development surprises can help ensure medical device success. Nothing is more frustrating than developing a plan, then in the heat of the battle having to diverge from the plan when chaos happens.

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