Health Systems Design Research Meeting

Productive discussions and knowledge exchange at the 5th International Meeting on Health Systems Design Research (HSDR5) organized by the DESIGN Society Special Interest Group. The meeting took place at CentraleSupélec in Paris where I have presented our work conducted at the G-SCOP lab of the University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP in a strong collaboration with a leading MedTech industry.

Our work is entitled «Systems Engineering for MedTech: a New Product Development process for drug-device Combination Products», and is based upon a few steady trends. One of those trends is a growing life expectancy across the globe. A personalized medicine, accompanied with an advanced drug delivery systems is one of the core solutions to that trend.
Another trend is the shift in mindset caused by the pandemic. The pandemic has shown a great potential of fastened vaccine and MedTech products approvals. All of those trends pave the way to a healthcare which will improve the quality of life across the global population.

In our presentation we have empathized the role of holistic, systems approach to tackle those challenges for the Combination Products development. The Design Process for those complex products involves few closely cooperating industries such as MedTech and Pharmaceutical ones.