Research
Research is the foundation for your product's success in the market.
BC Tech has helped dozens of companies develop business strategies, establish feasibility, determine risks and hazards, and perform human factors analysis. Effective research establishes the framework for a safe, effective and successful medical device or biotech product.
Our Research phase culminates with creation of a thorough and accurate Product Requirements Document (PRD). The PRD is the definitive list of specifications and requirements that will guide all future development, manufacturing and regulatory process.
Let the market guide development
A medical or biotech product will succeed if it satisfies a clinical need with strong market potential.
You know your product has what it takes. We can help you prove it. While your company is establishing market viability, BC Tech often assists by developing design concepts and prototypes for research and preliminary clinical analysis.
Product concepts should be in health-care provider's hands from the very beginning. Their feedback can get your product on the right track immediately - a benefit that usually results in long term savings.
Our collaborative research results in a Market Requirements Document (MRD) that outlines your product's features and your business goals including time-to-market and desired price point.
We conduct Risks and Hazards Analysis (RHA) and Human Factors Studies (HFS) to address the needs of the patient, procedure, laboratory, health care provider and the environment. Every scenario is imagined, every "worst-case" considered.
Different projects require different studies:
- Human Factors Studies - cognitive task analysis, focus groups, usability testing, cadaver lab research, and more.
- Risks and Hazards Analysis - Business risk, FDA scenario analysis, risk mitigation analysis, regulatory documentation, and more.
This careful and thorough analysis of the product's form and intended use results in a list of design parameters and considerations that help guide development. Careful documentation of this research ensures a safe and effective product, a smooth development process and easy regulatory approval.
New therapies and scientific processes require special feasibility analysis.
Sometimes it's hard to know if a new medical procedure or biotech process is even possible. BC Tech's experienced and creative teams can develop preliminary designs or new technologies to prove feasibility and estimate development and manufacturing costs. Our engineers and technicians devise bench top or in vitro tests and develop iterative prototypes for preliminary performance, risk and cost analysis.
Feasibility Research clarifies business strategy and demonstrates basic design principles:
- Creates valuable intellectual property.
- Examines trade-offs between various design approaches and solutions.
- Enables our clients to physically demonstrate feasibility to investors and customers with proof of concept prototypes.
We're proud of our reputation for quickly and affordably overcoming complex problems with new and creative uses of technologies. Numerous US Patents contain intellectual property developed by BC Tech for our clients.
