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Making medical devices: Everything you need to know

January 10, 2025 By Chris Newmarker

2024 MDO Medical Device Handbook.Medtech development is hard. Medical device creation requires manufacturing know-how in areas as wide-ranging as electrical components, high-performance polymers, molding and machining — and that doesn’t even include the required expertise in design, regulatory requirements and achieving reimbursement.

The good news is that there is now a whole ecosystem of specialized experts serving the medical device industry. Through our annual Medical Device Handbook, we harness this expertise. We request articles that avoid marketing pitches and instead provide useful information for the medtech development community.

Saying the Handbook has everything you need to know about creating medical devices — it’s more of an aspirational goal than a reality. However, the wide variety of articles here should hopefully help you dip your toes into the many areas you need to know to make a medical device.

We also have the Medical Design & Outsourcing medtech glossary to help medical device novices and experts alike decode industry jargon, including product and company names and terminology for device design, development, manufacturing and regulations. Also, here is an index of all of the medical device components we cover on Medical Design & Outsourcing.

Click here to browse through the categories…


And here’s the full list of categories:

Components
Drug Delivery
Manufacturing, Machining and Molding
Materials
Product Design and Development
Regulatory, Reimbursement, Standards and IP
Software
Sterilization Services
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The opinions expressed in contributed Medical Device Handbook posts are the authors’ only and do not necessarily reflect those of Medical Design & Outsourcing or its employees.

Originally published Nov. 22, 2017, and updated annually with new articles.

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About The Author

Chris Newmarker

Chris Newmarker is the executive editor of WTWH Media life science's news websites and publications including MassDevice, Medical Design & Outsourcing and more. A professional journalist of 18 years, he is a veteran of UBM (now Informa) and The Associated Press whose career has taken him from Ohio to Virginia, New Jersey and, most recently, Minnesota. He’s covered a wide variety of subjects, but his focus over the past decade has been business and technology. He holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from Ohio State University. Connect with him on LinkedIn or email at cnewmarker@wtwhmedia.com.

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