"We see bandu as a living, learning buddy for your daily life"

An Approach to Product Design and Development in Patient-centric Health Care
MIT SDM Systems Thinking Webinar Series
Anand Yadav
Co-founder and product lead, Neumitra; SDM alumnus
Date: March 25, 2013
Time: Noon - 1 p.m. EDT
Free and open to all
About the Presentation
In patient-centric health care, a product is expected to focus on the patient's interaction with it while it also delivers clinical value to the doctor. In order to fulfill its goals, the product must balance the appeal of a consumer product with the quality of a medical device. The challenge: a consumer product undergoes many iterations to deliver better user experience and aesthetics at an affordable cost while a medical device complies with strict regulatory requirements, undergoes fewer iterations, and costs more. This presentation describes a balanced approach developed during the design of bandu - a wearable biosensor and app for the mind.

About the Speaker

Anand Yadav is a product lead at Neumitra, which he co-founded in 2010. He previously worked at The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where he led an engineering group that developed solutions for genome sequencing process improvement . Yadav was also member of a team that developed a large-scale automated system for the Human Genome Project at the Whitehead Institute. He holds an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India and an MS in engineering and management, earned as an SDM fellow at MIT.