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Ergonomics in Medical Cart Design

How will patients and staff interact with your medical device?

When it comes to the "human factor", your medical device cart or platform can make or break the usability of your device. Height adjustability, handle...

Medical Carts: Error-Proofing Through Design

How can we mitigate risk in our medical cart designs to ensure safety and compliance?

What we've discovered over years of medical cart design and development is that sometimes end-users don't follow the IFU...

Anatomy of an Arthroscopy Medical Cart

What features are ideal for housing arthroscopic surgery equipment on a medical cart?

Arthroscopic surgery is a blanket term that encompasses a variety of procedures on patients’ joints. Arthroscopic procedures may be...

Does Your Medical Cart Manufacturer Need to be ISO 13485-Certified?

In 2018, the FDA announced the intent to “harmonize” their Quality System Regulations with ISO 13485:2016 for medical devices to streamline requirements for QSR and modernize the regulation. With the changes that have...

The Perfect Storm: Supply Chain 2021 and What it Means for Medical Carts

If the story of 2020 was COVID-19, the story of 2021 might be the massive supply chain disruption that has blown across the world in the pandemic’s wake.

The global disruption has created a waterfall effect in which raw...

Medical Cart Caster Options (Infographic)

The choice of caster used on your medical cart has a huge impact on maneuverability, staff comfort, safety, and compliance for your medical device system. Scroll through a website or leaf through a catalog from any...

What is ISTA testing... and why do we need it for our medical cart?

In the medical device cart industry, we are very focused on testing our products for a number of reasons. We cycle test our devices to verify that they will withstand the rigors of long-term use, and we also test for...

Industrial Design for Medical Device Carts

An Interview with Julia Behm of Design Between

Julia Behm is a Wisconsin-based industrial designer with over 20 years of experience. At HUI, we've been lucky to collaborate with Julia for several years: first as a...