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Omron Medical Device - Delve Medical Device Development
Develop your medical device with our multidisciplinary experts

Over 55 years Delve has developed thousands of medical products, including surgical instruments, drug delivery devices, home health devices, and complex diagnostic systems. Now, our services can help bring your vision to fruition.

We assist from concept to launch of Class II and Class III medical devices. From creating user requirements and handling regulatory compliance, to developing medical device designs, selecting materials and supply chains, and assisting with FDA submissions.

Whether developing new medical devices or improving existing products, our cross-disciplinary teams of specialists, researchers, designers, and engineers tap into expertise derived from multiple industries and technologies.

We are deeply rooted in human-centered medical product design and development.

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ISO-certified product support
Manage the risks of medical device product development with support from a trusted ISO 13485:2016-certified partner.
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Clinically effective, user-centric
Medical devices must be both standards compliant and effective. Delve develops products with the FDA and your users in mind.
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Medical devices with modern UI
Users expect medical devices to behave like consumer products. We develop those too. Your device will benefit from our expertise.
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Medical Device Development Expertise

Delve’s multidisciplinary team has extensive experience developing medical devices and cutting-edge healthcare technology. Our process focuses on your business goals and follows a pragmatic approach to achieve them – from device ideation to product rollout. We remove the stress and uncertainty that accompanies product innovation.


Our Work

'They bring skills we don't have'
A complex screening procedure is brought out of the lab and onto a chip.

Baebies' sought our expertise in user research, industrial design, and shaping the user experience. We immersed ourselves in the NICU and turned Baebies' technology into a diagnostics device that's saving lives.

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Dexcom: G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
While users of the previous Dexcom system greatly valued its enhanced ability to monitor their glucose levels, applying the subcutaneous Dexcom sensor to their bodies was an obvious pain point that was a barrier to wider adoption.
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Penumbra: REAL™ Immersive System
The first virtual reality system that is purpose-built from the ground up for rehabilitation in a healthcare environment.
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BD Diagnostics: New Product Brand Strategy
Strategic, actionable branding guidelines bring BD Diagnostics into the future and provide a roadmap as they develop and acquire more products.
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ProNova: SC360 Proton Therapy System
Imagine being strapped into a large machine, completely immobilized, for an hour while it delivers high doses of radiation to treat your cancer - every day for six months.
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BK Ultrasound: Sonic Window
Delve helped BK Ultrasound bundle its game-changing technology into a widely adopted, easy to use, award-winning medical device.
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Alcon: Cataract Surgery Scalpel
Delve developed a new scalpel that skirts competitors’ overly broad patents and keeps costs low.
Delve Startup clients: Sandra Medical, acquired for $500 million. BK Medical, a GE Healthcare company, acquired for $1.45 billion. Baebies, $132.8 million.
Not just for enterprise. For medical device startups, too.

Your product concept has already attracted backing. But to get to the next level you need design, technical expertise, and prototyping capacity.

Delve helps medical device startups define the optimal formative testing plan to align with their product, development plans, and regulatory pathway. Then, our researchers provide clients with the timely answers needed to assess if a healthcare product is safe and effective.

For those who plan to sell their medical device across international markets, Delve collaborates with national and international partners to help startup clients connect to relevant users across the globe.

Our strategists, designers, and engineers have guided many medical device startups to the next round. Or to an exit.

End-to-End Medical Device Product Development

All the experts in one place means a more cohesive development experience for your medical device product.

Meet the Experts

Kent Kallsen, VP of Engineering, Delve
Kent Kallsen
VP of Engineering

Kent helps clients turn concepts into products that are differentiated, elegantly functional, and practical to manufacture. He leads mechanical, electrical, human factors, software, quality management, and prototype development engineers who apply their deep expertise on projects across multiple industries, including medical device, consumer, and commercial.

Mathieu Turpault, VP of Design, Delve
Mathieu Turpault
VP of Design

Mathieu helps clients evoke emotion through design. He believes emotional appeal can be rationally and analytically designed. Mathieu taps into his extensive experience, finding the best possible approach within the client’s constraints. He has been published in many leading design journals and speaks frequently about multisensory and immersive design, front end innovation, brand building, integrated design methods, and sustainability.

Our Recent Thinking

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A Consumer Products Approach to Medical Devices
Today’s users of medical devices expect a consumer-level experience. Here's how medtech firms can make the shift.
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Consumer Medical Devices: 5 Design Practices for Usability
Medical device companies can boost usability by adopting these consumer product development practices.
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Designing an IoT Medical Device? Four Factors To Consider
Good product design considers how a product will be used, in what setting, and what the regulations affecting such usage might be.
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3 UX Trends Reshaping Medical Product Design
The acceleration of tech, and especially the mobile revolution, has deeply impacted both the consumer and medical device industries.
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How Root Cause Probing Improves Medical Device Design
Often, users don’t know why they made a mistake. Human Factors researches use the art of Root Cause Probing to uncover what went wrong.
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Design for Sterilization of Medical Electronics
Learn design techniques to maximize device reliability for common sterilization processes — autoclave, ethylene oxide, and ionizing radiation.
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How Affordance Makes Medical Devices Safer
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Let's build a breakthrough medical device.
Delve's team of product development experts can help take your medical device idea from concept to marketplace. Let's build your vision together.