Patient Impairments: Patients often have impaired vision, reduced tactile sensation or arthritis. The daily bins snap into the frame and have a large "push" button to eject the tray. The tray has three chambers (AM, Noon, PM) with individual doors allowing easy access the pills. The doors have large easy to grab handles.
Filling the Bin: Research showed patients and caregivers often organize medication once per week by sitting at a table and carefully loading each dose. Sitting at the PillStation would be impractical. So the entire weeks pills are snapped into a removable frame. This allows a caregiver to sit down at a table and carefully organize the doses.
The PillStation® has a novel (patent pending) pill tray designed to meet a wide range of behaviors in active patients.
Pill Tray - User Centered Design
Concept to Production: Bleck Design Group provided industrial design, mechanical engineering, prototypes, and production sourcing. We provided a virtual design and engineering department for Senticare and worked as a part of their team as the design entered manufacturing.
Definition and Specification: Users were researched through interviews and presenting alternative concepts. Technology and components were selected, evaluated and transformed into feasibility models. User needs and technology were considered to make trade-offs and optimize performance and cost.
We helped the founders explain the design to investors and estimate the development costs. The concept was illustrated in models and drawings to provide an easy to understand product explanation.
Bleck Design Group provided Senticare a complete Start-up set of design services. This represents our classic set of services that help new companies launch ground-breaking innovative products.
The Pill Station® by Senticare is a home based monitored pill dispenser. This Pill Station® helps a patient comply with drug regiments and avoid expensive hospitalization due to over and under dosage. Senticare conceived of a call-center based communication link in order to monitor home-care patients with critical medications. The PillStation® has a scanning camera that takes a picture of the pill tray contents and sends this to the call center. The call center then compares this picture to the patients drug plan. A speaker and microphone provide a one touch link to the call center. A display and signal light provides additional communication.
Senticare Pill Station®: Home Care Pill Dispenser
BISx System – This device provides critical signal processing to the sensitive sensor data from Aspect's patient senor. Bleck Design Group developed the design to meet flexible requirements for pre and post operative environments. The round shape dissipates heat and can withstand being caught under a patient bed. The round perimeter is easier to water proof. The contrasting color makes the device easy to find in any color field.
Bleck Design Group improved ergonomics, manufacturing cost and reliability in this connector system. We improved the ergonomics by adding design features to guide the users intuitive understanding. Through FEA analysis, simplified assembly concepts, and improved tooling the quality and manufacturing yield improved. We provided user research, ergonomic design, industrial design and mechanical engineering through production.
Bleck Design Group collaborated with Aspect Medical System's team to design the BIS VISTA Monitor. The result is a space-saving design with an easy-to-use touch screen. We provided user research, industrial design, design for manufacturing, and on-going consulting and evaluation of engineering details.
BIS VISTA Monitoring System: Aspect Medical Systems
Production Design: We then transformed each prototype part into a production ready design and released to production tooling. We managed the vendors and continued to fabricate prototype parts. Finally we transferred our documented design to the client's manufacturing group.
Transforming the Concept to Production: We then had four months to complete the production design of all the parts,fabricate a model and have the assembled final prototype at an annual trade show. In eight weeks our design and engineering teams designed over thirty five complex assemblies,coordinated fabrication across the country, and merged all the parts together,on schedule for the final product assembly.
Industrial Design: Bleck Design Group then developed a range of industrial design concepts and selected a design direction. We refined this design in scale models and computer renderings of the external form then completed a preliminary engineering layout
User Survey and Ergonomic Design: Next we surveyed the ophthalmologists and developed the ergonomic concept for controls and patient interface. We completed anthropometric analysis to set ideal ranges of motion and resolved conflicts between the ideal range of motion and the prototype laser optics and electronics.We completed user reviews by taking a mock-up to several ophthalmologists offices and confirming the design would meet constraints.
Concept Rendering for Investors: The project started with developing a concept rendering for investors. The goal of this phase was to illustrate the basic system and show investors and users the overall concept
Bleck Design Group designed the external enclosure for this new ophthalmic laser. This medical device automates the removal of a patients natural lens prior to implanting an artificial lens (capsulotomy). This allows a reduction in surgical time and cost.
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