Competing with EpiPen: An Imagined Design for a New Solution
By Patricia Anderson With all the press coverage on EpiPen prices , hopes are high for the development of new devices to compete with Mylan’s autoinjector. Other epinephrine injection devices have been on the market, and some are working to get to market but EpiPen currently rules the market. Epinephrine injectors have to fulfill a collection of rather unique usability criteria (be very portable, easy for a stranger off the street to use, quick to activate, easy enough for kids and adults, etc.) to be feasible options – a daunting task for medical device designers. In a dream world, what kind of devices could compete with EpiPen? Designawards.core77.com features an innovative and impressive student design for an Epinephrine injection device. This device, called ISA10 and designed by students at the Umeå institute of design in Sweden, features creative solutions to allow friends, strangers, and people experiencing an allergic attack to administer a dose of epinephrine and ge