Confronting the Roadblocks in Medical Technology Innovation

During the recent Boundaries & Breakthroughs event at Georgia Tech IMS, panelists discussed preparing MedTech innovators to understand how design decisions cascade into real clinical environments. “You really do have to be able to be interdisciplinary,” said Georgia CTSA Informatics Co-Director Jon Duke, MD, MS. “Now of course what makes things go is not often the knowledge of the domain, but the person’s role or connectivity into the system.”