title: Adding the clinician to medical device innovation.
abstract: Statements of Clinical Need is a new mechanism for health-care professionals to communicate clinical needs to potential technology solution providers. The system offers the industry the opportunity of greater market success with the new products it develops.
authors.affiliation: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Centre of Industrial Collaboration Ltd, Leeds, UK. john.egan@bitecic.com
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Egan
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design / Q000379:methods*; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006282:Health Personnel; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D006113:United Kingdom