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Can Facebook and Twitter be Part of an Effective Medical Product Marketing Strategy?

by Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak joined MediPurpose as a consultant in October 2009, working closely
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Friday, 17 May 2013 Category Medical Product Sales & Marketing 0 Comments

Insights for how to use Facebook and Twitter for medical product marketing.

Tags: Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, Medical Product Marketing
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An Overview of Composite Wound Dressing Innovation and Adoption

by Alan Neil
Alan Neil
Alan Neil is the founder and CEO of ASN Associates. He has more than 25 years of
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 Category Medical Product Development 0 Comments

A brief review of how composite wound dressings answered unique issues for moist wound healing and evolved into its own product category.

Tags: Advanced Wound Care Dressings
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Is VBP (Value-based Purchasing) OK for Advanced Wound Care?

by Paula Erwin-Toth
Paula Erwin-Toth
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Care, Education and Advocacy at PETprojects Deerfi
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Sunday, 05 May 2013 Category Medical Product Sales & Marketing 0 Comments

A brief examination of VBP—or “value based purchasing”—and its impact on advanced wound care products, purchasing and management.

Tags: VBP, Value Based Purchasing, Advanced Wound Care Dressings
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Why a New babyLance Safety Heelstick Logo?

by Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak joined MediPurpose as a consultant in October 2009, working closely
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Thursday, 18 April 2013 Category Medical Product Sales & Marketing 1 Comment

You might not have noticed any significant differences to the neonatal medical device’s logo, but some subtle differences are actually very important for a couple reasons.

Tags: Needlestick, Safety Heelstick, babyLance™ Safety Heelsticks
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The Coming of Collagen Advanced Wound Care Dressings

by Alan Neil
Alan Neil
Alan Neil is the founder and CEO of ASN Associates. He has more than 25 years of
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Friday, 05 April 2013 Category Medical Product Development 0 Comments

The introduction of collagen wound dressings represented a change in material selection from plant or polymer sources to a common component of wound and other biological tissue.

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Surviving the Sequester in LTC Wound Care

by Paula Erwin-Toth
Paula Erwin-Toth
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Care, Education and Advocacy at PETprojects Deerfi
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 Category MediPurpose™ Medical Products 1 Comment

Suggestions for maintaining cost-effective wound care for LTC patients.

Tags: LTC, Long-Term Care, Advanced Wound Care Dressings
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2013: The Year of the LTC Nursing Assistant!

by Paula Erwin-Toth
Paula Erwin-Toth
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Care, Education and Advocacy at PETprojects Deerfi
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Thursday, 28 February 2013 Category MediPurpose™ Medical Products 4 Comments

Paula Erwin-Toth explains how LTC nursing assistants are a key part of any LTC wound care team’s ability to provide early detection.

Tags: Advanced Wound Care Dressings, LTC, Long-Term Care
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Designing Better Medical Devices With End User Collaboration

by Patrick Yi
Patrick Yi
In the late 70s, I started my career building software and then moved on to buil
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Friday, 15 February 2013 Category Medical Product Development 1 Comment

Why MediPurpose fosters close collaboration between end users and its medical device design team to design better medical products that support end-user requirements.

Tags: Infant Heelstick Devices, babyLance™ Safety Heelsticks
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How Wound Care Fell in Love With Amorphous Hydrogels

by Alan Neil
Alan Neil
Alan Neil is the founder and CEO of ASN Associates. He has more than 25 years of
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Friday, 01 February 2013 Category Medical Product Development 0 Comments

A review of the evolution and adoption of hydrogels for advanced wound care.

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Is LinkedIn Useful for Medical Product Marketing?

by Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak joined MediPurpose as a consultant in October 2009, working closely
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Friday, 01 February 2013 Category Medical Product Sales & Marketing 0 Comments

Insights for how to use LinkedIn for medical product marketing.

Tags: Social Media, LinkedIn, Medical Product Marketing
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Evolution in LTC: Establishing Evidence-Based Skin and Wound Care Protocols

by Paula Erwin-Toth
Paula Erwin-Toth
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Care, Education and Advocacy at PETprojects Deerfi
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Friday, 11 January 2013 Category MediPurpose™ Medical Products 1 Comment

How OBRA-87 and new updates to the MDS relate to balancing LTC cost-savings with driven, evidence-based skin and wound care prevention and treatment protocols.

Tags: Advanced Wound Care Dressings, LTC, Long-Term Care
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The ‘Right Way’ to Pitch New Medical Device Inventions: NDAs

by Adeline Yi
Adeline Yi
Adeline is MediPurpose's manager of New Business Development/QA/RA.
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 Category Medical Product Development 3 Comments

How can medical device inventors share new ideas without an NDA – but still protecting their medical device intellectual property?

Tags: Medical Device Intellectual Property (IP)
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The Evolution of Foam Wound Dressings

by Alan Neil
Alan Neil
Alan Neil is the founder and CEO of ASN Associates. He has more than 25 years of
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Thursday, 06 December 2012 Category Medical Product Development 0 Comments

How the shortcomings of hydrocolloids paved the way for advancements in foam dressing technology.

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One in a Million: SurgiLance Safety Lancet Quality

by Adeline Yi
Adeline Yi
Adeline is MediPurpose's manager of New Business Development/QA/RA.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 Category MediPurpose™ Medical Products 2 Comments

What are the odds of having a bad experience with a SurgiLance™ safety lancet? How do they compare with other interesting odds in life?

Tags: SurgiLance™ Safety Lancets, Fingerstick Devices
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Sony Walkman, Apple iPods…and babyLance Infant Heelsticks?

by Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak
Derek Rudnak joined MediPurpose as a consultant in October 2009, working closely
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Friday, 19 October 2012 Category Medical Product Development 0 Comments

MediPurpose marketing director Derek Rudnak relates the redesign of the new babyLance infant heelstick to lessons learned from the decline of Sony and the rise of Apple.

Tags: babyLance™ Safety Heelsticks, White Papers, Infant Heelstick Devices
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How Can You Listen to Your Medical Device Users?

by Patrick Yi
Patrick Yi
In the late 70s, I started my career building software and then moved on to buil
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Thursday, 11 October 2012 Category Medical Product Development 0 Comments

Patrick Yi explains how medical device companies such as MediPurpose, which makes the babyLance infant heelstick, listened to its end users to improve its medical products.

Tags: babyLance™ Safety Heelsticks, White Papers, Infant Heelstick Devices
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From the Evolution of Moist Wound Healing to What’s on the Horizon for Wound Care

by Valerie C. Johnson
Valerie C. Johnson
Valerie C. Johnson is MediPurpose's Advanced Wound Care Product Marketing Manage
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Tuesday, 09 October 2012 Category Medical Product Development 6 Comments

Wound care product marketing manager Valerie C. Johnson joins the blogosphere for discussions about moist wound healing products.

Tags: Advanced Wound Care Dressings, MediPlus™ Advanced Wound Care Products
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Better Results from Better Processes: The babyLance Infant Heelstick Simulated Use Study White Paper

by Patrick Yi
Patrick Yi
In the late 70s, I started my career building software and then moved on to buil
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Friday, 28 September 2012 Category Medical Product Development 4 Comments

Medical device company founder and CEO Patrick Yi reveals the differences in the processes used to design his company’s first infant heelstick and its all-new babyLance heelstick device.

Tags: Infant Heelstick Devices, White Papers, babyLance™ Safety Heelsticks
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Are Office Workers More Engaged, Committed than Remote Workers?

by Patrick Yi
Patrick Yi
In the late 70s, I started my career building software and then moved on to buil
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Friday, 14 September 2012 Category Medical Product Business Administration & Management 2 Comments

Medical device company founder and CEO Patrick Yi shares his perspectives on how to engage with remote workers and virtual workplaces.

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The Evolution of Moist Wound Healing, Part III: Alginate Wound Dressings

by Alan Neil
Alan Neil
Alan Neil is the founder and CEO of ASN Associates. He has more than 25 years of
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Saturday, 01 September 2012 Category Medical Product Development 0 Comments

The search for and introduction of better wound care dressings that introduced transparent films and hydrocolloids led to  alginate wound dressings. What influenced that evolution?

Tags: Advanced Wound Care Dressings, MediPlus™ Advanced Wound Care Products
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