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A Decade of 'Software Eating the World' of Medical Devices

medical device software development

Ten years ago this month, Marc Andreessen published a now-legendary op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that seemed audacious to some readers and visionary to many others. In that commentary, headlined “Why Software Is Eating The World,” he succinctly forecasts one of the most-consequential changes in recent human history: the transformational integration of software into […]

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Cloud Computing in Medical Devices: Safe, Compliant, Effective. How?

cloud, FDA, medical device software development

The cloud is eating the world, including medical devices. As of early 2020, worldwide cloud infrastructure service revenue was over $96 billion, with the combined market share of the three largest vendors, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, at approximately 60%.  Cloud revenues of these three vendors have grown by over 50% per year since 2013. Part […]

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Orthogonal™ Announces New Brand and Pivots to IoT Medical Device Software

medical device software development

In light of market changes in health care and the ascension of IoT medical devices, Orthogonal has decided to concentrate its expertise solely in the connected medical device space.

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Connected Health Conference for Med Device Companies

agile, digital health, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Mobile apps and connected technologies are changing the way that medical information and services are acquired, processed, conveyed, and implemented. New products, emerging not only from the traditional medical device industry, but from the consumer […]

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10 Myths About Agile and the FDA

agile, FDA, medical device software development

Myth: Verification and Validation should only start after all development is complete.  Truth:  In traditional waterfall, verification and validation activities often commence at the tail end of a project, after all, development is complete.  This diverges from the FDA’s recommendations: “The FDA does recommend that software validation and verification activities be conducted throughout the entire […]

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Agile Without Fast Feedback is Not Agile

agile, FDA, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Agile methodology has been adapted to the medical device industry to incorporate risk management, human factors and verification and validation so that it satisfies both the letter and the spirit of the FDA’s Quality System […]

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Why We Need to Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve

Healthcare, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. There’s a lot of discussion about ways to “bend the healthcare cost curve.”  What do people mean by that, and why do we need to bend it? I like to answer that question by showing […]

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Medical Software Under UX Influenced Development

agile, FDA, Human Factors & UX, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Clayton Miller is a user experience (UX) and visual designer at Orthogonal. His previous agency experience in the visual design world ranges from basic design work to UX design and development. Since joining Orthogonal, Miller […]

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Catalyze - HIPAA Compliant Cloud Computing for Healthcare

cloud, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. We asked Travis Good, Co-founder at Catalyze to write a guest post with his perspective on the space:  We founded Catalyze a little over a year ago to solve compliance issues arising from healthcare, technology […]

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Faster Feedback Before Development Starts: Feasibility

agile, FDA, lean startup, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. While change, new discovery and learning are inevitable during any healthcare app product development process, and agile processes reduce the cost and risk of change, there is a significant cost associated with design controls for […]

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Faster Feedback Through Integrated Cross-Functional Teams

agile, FDA, Human Factors & UX, medical device software development, risk management, verification & validation

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. In FDA regulated software development one of the most important keys to getting the most out of agile methodology is to ensure fast feedback from outside of the development team. One way to do this […]

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The Increasing Importance of Software in Medical Devices

agile, FDA, medical device software development

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Medical devices have become such a vital part of modern healthcare that practically no diagnosis or treatment is possible without them. According to the WHO, there are about 1.5 million medical devices available today, ranging […]

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