Resources and Services

Archimedic was founded in 2009, with a focus on translating novel medical concepts and nascent technologies into medical devices meeting functional, regulatory, usability, and manufacturing requirements.  The firm has grown to 16 professionals with expertise in industrial design, ergonomics, electro-mechanical engineering, DFM, and transfer into manufacturing. The Archimedic team includes specialists in product configuration concept development, use case prototyping for formative human factors studies, functional bread-boarding for performance and reliability testing, industrial design encompassing form development and brand integration, design for manufacturability and assembly (DFMA), Alpha/Beta prototyping, supply chain development, pre-production device building, verification & validation (V&V), and design transfer into production.  Much of their work has been to support development of new and improved technology for various laparoscopic, interventional and open surgical procedures.  Moreover, Archimedic routinely conducts risk management inclusive of design control and design history file (DHF) management for device programs.

Archimedic has also been selected by the PPDC as its product development partner in the Early Stage Device Support Program.  The program is a new opportunity designed to provide professional support to guide product development planning and other activities for early stage projects.  Ten projects have been in the program thus far and come from small companies and institutions such as Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Children's National Medical Center, and Stanford University.  The projects include a rapid opioid screen, simple vessel loop procedure kit, guidewire safety system, software guided needle, alternative system for knee repair sugery, safer method for upgrading cardiac therapies, improved dialysis catheter, dressing to accelerate wound healing, personal oral aspirator, and adjustable artery band.

The Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation at CHOP facilitates the translation of scientific discoveries into practical implementation for both research and clinical care. Centralized classroom and skills lab training, satellite skills labs, and unit-based "virtual" lab exercises adjacent to patient care settings are routinely conducted. The Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation at CHOP offers more than 950 teaching sessions with at least 11,000 attendees, including education encompassing recognition of shock and/or cardiac/respiratory failure, vascular access, chest tube care and hemodynamic monitoring, advanced and difficult airway assessment and intervention, pacemaker evaluation, EKG interpretation, critical incident debriefing, and crew resource management. The staff includes multidisciplinary center directors, full-time administrative staff, full-time clinical educators, and additional volunteer faculty.

Bresslergroup was first founded as “Design for Medicines” with a strong emphasis on medical device development and over the past 48 years the group has brought to market hundreds of medical devices ranging from small injection devices to large lab diagnostics instruments. In addition, Bresslergroup has the ability to leverage its in-house usability lab to conduct usability testing to the FDA standard, 75% of all its User Research work is conducted in full compliance of FDA standard and requirements which reduced risk for iteration loops and rework and ultimately result in faster path to market and lower development costs. Bresslergroup has designed quite a number of new devices such as the BK Ultrasound venipuncture device which won and MDEA Gold award in 2016 the highest recognition there is in medical device design.

Penn Health-Tech unites the University of Pennsylvania’s strengths in Medicine, Engineering, Business and Education to create technologies that address the world’s pressing health care needs.  It catalyzes medical device innovation at Penn, by providing a connected community and key resources that will maximize the number of medical device innovations that improve patient’s lives.