Empowered Patient Podcast
Engaging Patients to Improve Medical Device Design and Use with Joy Duemke Terumo BCT and Barry Liden Patient Voice Advisors
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:19:14
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Synopsis
Joy Duemke, Director of Marketing North America at Terumo, BCT, and Barry Liden, President and Managing Advisor of Patient Voice Advisors, highlight the importance of medical device companies engaging with patient associations to incorporate patient feedback into the design and development of their products. Patients can provide unique insights to engineers and researchers that may lead to better outcomes and patient experiences. The discussion focuses on the collaboration related to improving blood therapy delivery for sickle cell patients. Barry explains, "So if medical device companies want to ensure that their technologies are going to get to the people that need them and that those folks want to be able to take potentially some risks of having the device implanted or used on them, they need to listen to the patient and understand what kind of outcomes are important to them and what they're willing to tolerate." Joy elaborates, "With medical devices, it's very personal to the patient. It's not a bag th