2010

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DesignWise Medical story in BioBusiness

DesignWise Medical story in BioBusiness

    DesignWise Medical was has been featured in the November 2010 issue of the BioBulletin, the newsletter of BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota. The title of the article is, ‘DesignWise Medical: A new approach to helping kids’. Article Link: http://www.biobusinessalliance.org/news.asp

UW-Stout and DesignWise Medical

UW-Stout and DesignWise Medical

DesignWise Medical founder, Brad Slaker, spoke during a recent panel discussion at UW-Stout that looked at ways to implement the UW System Research to Jobs report. The report studied how to create jobs in Wisconsin by using research conducted at UW System schools and by tapping into resources available throughout the system.  Click on the [...]

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DesignWise Medical Files First Patent

Press Release:  http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2010-10-1018-003.shtml

GuideStar Health Giveaway

GuideStar Health Giveaway is giving away $5,000 to the organization that has the greatest number of reviews on their website during the month of June.  Join DesignWise Medical in our pursuit to identify, create, and deliver solutions for children’s unmet medical needs. Click the link and share a quick story about how you’ve been impacted [...]

Spring 2010 Project Teams - Thank You

Spring 2010 Project Teams – Thank You

DesignWise Medical sponsored 4 senior design project teams that culminated over the last 2 weeks with design shows and final reports. DesignWise  Medical typically will sponsor a student desing project for new product development efforts and then once the student project is completed, transfer the continuing development to our network of volunteer professionals and retirees.  The [...]

The Overnight Website Challenge

The Overnight Website Challenge

  The weekend of March 20/21, 2010 we participated in the Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge. The event, in its third year, pairs nonprofit organizations with volunteer web developers in a 24-hour marathon coding session. We were thrilled to be selected as one of 16 worthy nonprofits this year and were matched with the Full Court Press [...]

Star Tribune Profiles DesignWise

Star Tribune Profiles DesignWise

  Janet Moore from the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote a nice overview of DesignWise Medical featuring our Overnight Pediatric Oxygen Delivery (OPOD) system. Inspired by mother and physiology instructor Ann Gettys, this project was further developed by a design class at the University of St. Thomas and prototyped at the the University of Wisconsin-Stout. A [...]

DesignWise and IPI Collaboration

DesignWise and IPI Collaboration

  DesignWise Medical has applied its unique development approach to pediatric medical device development to a pediatric device need proposed by IPI [Institute for Pediatric Innovation].  The device is an improved vein transilluminator used to locate peripheral veins for the insertion of IV’s and PICC lines.  No device currently exists in the market that has [...]