Consumer Product Development
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Company: AFHCAN
Industry: Tele Medicine
HQ: Anchorage, Alaska
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Client delivers healthcare to the Alaskan native people. The management team was looking for a way to stretch their funding to deliver healthcare to more people for less total investment. They turned to telemedicine to reduce cost and bring healthcare to remote areas of Alaska.
Product/Project Highlights
Telemedicine Cart System
Client: AFHCAN
- All-in-one health care cart for remote Alaskan villages
- Breaks down to fit through the jump door of a bush plane for transport and delivery
- Assembled and incorporated customer requested functions on to a single cart platform
- 28 different diagnostic tests can be supported when fully configured”
Situation:
Our Client come to Solid wanted to develop a Telemedicine cart based diagnostic system to incorporates 28 different tests. The system needed to be UL certified, fully HIPPA compliant and be designed so that components of the system could fit through the jump door of a Cessna aircraft. The cart would be placed in remote Alaskan villages that were too small to attract a full time Doctor to the Village. The system needed to be simple to assemble so that 6th grade educated operator could put the system together and perform diagnostic tests on individuals.
Telemedicine Cart System
Client: AFHCAN
Process:
Concept Development and refinement started with first generation cart platform that was not meeting aesthetic requirements. An Industrial Design effort was used to improve the user experience and make the cart more ergonomically functional. Solid conducted the Industrial Design effort, completed the detailed design, prototyping of the first units and coordinated UL certification of the product. Solid also design and specified all of the product and subsystem packaging.
Solution:
The Telemedicine Cart System was approved by our Client and Solid began conducting the production build of the system at the Mounds View, MN location. To date, Solid has built 375 of these cart systems which have been deployed to many locations around the world in addition to villages in Alaska.
