Achieve the Failsafe Standard Required for Home Medical Equipment – AND Control Costs

Medical Devices for Home Use Must Achieve Fail-Proof Standards

Improved clinical outcomes are now possible in a growing number of applications where patients are able to safely operate medical devices in their home environments

Unlike medical devices used in clinical settings where trained technical staff is usually on-hand to verify that devices are operating as designed, medical equipment designed for patients’ use in their homes must be more thoroughly tested and proven to be reliable before release to the patient’s home environment.

In practical terms, this means that testing during assembly must be more extensive and more sensitive, without adding significant cost

Challenge:

Multi-Valve, Multi-Port Testing
An example of this trend is dialysis machines designed for patient’s use in their home environments. Achieving fail-safe standards is complicated by the complexity of dialysis equipment. Multiple solenoid valves must be controlled with precision and many dozens of ports must be operable at all times.

Solution:

InterTech’s Multi-Channel MED75-COMBO Leak/Flow Test Instrument
A new multi-channel test instrument from InterTech performs more than 100 leak tests and flow tests, combining pressure decay and mass flow test methods, in under 10 minutes for each unit.