Is Fitbit The Most Valuable Medical Device Today?

We are living in the most fertile era for innovation in medical technology in memory, Scott Nelson, CEO and CTO of Reuleaux Technology (Minneapolis), told a packed room of attendees at the co-located Medical Design & Manufacturing and PLASTEC event in Minneapolis today. But even great technology won’t have an impact on the marketplace unless people want to use it. Device design must focus on user behavior to succeed, said Nelson, who offered some perspectives on that topic during his keynote presentation, “Digital health design: You can’t just make technology work, you have to make it matter.” The keynote opened the two-day conference and trade show.

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