Design Garden

Resources for Biomedical Engineering Device Design

Market Assessment

How many people will you effect?

Define the size of your available market and need for your device. 

Get further inspiration from the following identified clinical opportunities and clinical reimbursement data:

 

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Gates Foundation

Global health and development challenges from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Physician Innovation Network

From AMA and Sling Health, is a networking tool to connect clinicians and bio-tech entrepreneurs.

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CDC

Identified global health issues and compiled health statistics from the CDC.

Center for Medicare & Medicaid

Reimbursement data from services physician fee schedule.

Tips on how to use CMS:

  1. Getting data from CMS tutorial.
  2. How to find number of procudures per CPT code.
  3. How to search for payment rates.

 

Reimbursement

Lecture from Georgia Tech’s own Dr. Stubbs

Reimbursement from Nationwide Childrens

International Classification of Disease

From World Health Organization, is the international standard for health data, documentation, and data aggregation.

Market Research Reports

Here is an overview on market resources created by Reagan Newman and the GT Library.

The following engines can be searched through the GT library here:

BCC Research

Factiva

Business Source Complete