Medical Technology Consulting

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How can Exponent support clients navigating unprecedented change in the medical technology market?

Digital health technologies (DHTs) have the potential to offer valuable insights for clinical trials, provide early detection of disease, enhance personalized patient care, and improve treatment regimens, therapeutics, and outcomes. But device makers and pharmaceutical companies entering this emerging market face significant challenges and risks — including insecure data, usability and compliance issues, compromised health interventions, and possible adverse impacts. Organizations developing and deploying these transformative devices will confront highly competitive market forces and wide-ranging potential consequences, including legal exposure, as they navigate complex issues of safety, reliability, efficacy, and security with large-scale deployment of DHTs.

How we help the MedTech industry

Exponent's multidisciplinary consultants offer unmatched expertise in the use of DHT-generated clinical trial and therapeutic data. Our data and health scientists, biomedical and electrical engineers, and human factors and AI/ML experts help device manufacturers navigate the transition from consumer tech to health tech and from health tech to MedTech. We assist pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) with selecting DHTs and other monitoring devices for decentralized clinical trials and with developing data ecosystems that connect these devices to stakeholders across the healthcare continuum. Whether you're designing and manufacturing a new wearable device or leveraging medical technology to validate therapeutic interventions and provide personalized, data-driven patient care, Exponent can help.

Capabilities

With our multidisciplinary backgrounds and decades of experience, Exponent delivers data-driven insights and end-to-end support for medical technology devices and DHTs for use in clinical trials and life science applications.

Leveraging deep technical knowledge and decades of experience with wearable technology, sensors, and a wide range of medical and consumer electronics, our MedTech consultants help manufacturers navigate complex challenges and opportunities in the rapidly evolving DHT market. With our state-of-the-art biomechanics labs and research facilities, our multidisciplinary scientists and engineers assist manufacturers in designing innovative, reliable, clinical-grade devices that meet the stringent standards required for use in clinical trials. Clients leverage our expertise in biomechanics, epidemiology, data sciences, human behavior, product development, safety evaluations, usability, and regulatory compliance to develop accessible, fit-for-purpose wearable devices, such as smartwatches and fitness trackers, that meet the highest standards for performance, safety, and security in patient-centric environments.
Exponent consultants provide unparalleled MedTech expertise to pharmaceutical companies entering the DHT market and CROs deploying these technologies to large, diverse, decentralized populations. By identifying, validating, and supporting the successful implementation of fit-for-purpose DHTs, Exponent helps companies harness the power of data-driven insights to improve health outcomes. Our experts in medical devices, data sciences, and drug-development clinical trials can rigorously evaluate potential DHT solutions for accuracy, reliability, and usability within the framework of a clinical investigation. We offer clients strategic guidance on integrating emerging technologies into existing pharmaceutical programs and data streams, applying a dynamic platform agnostic approach and leveraging AI/ML techniques to drive deeper insights and predictive capabilities.

With our unmatched array of experts, extensive experience, multidisciplinary approach, and state-of-the-art research capabilities, Exponent's a leader in the digital health and MedTech fields.

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What Can We Help You Solve?

Our digital health consultants help wearable device manufacturers enter the complex medical device market and help pharmaceutical firms leverage these devices for large-scale decentralized clinical studies. Our multidisciplinary scientists, engineers, and regulatory experts are uniquely equipped to support you in deploying emerging technologies across the full continuum of healthcare applications.