With White Buffalo, you’ll know your equipment will actually work
White Buffalo has helped numerous companies develop safe, high-quality and cost-effective products. Together, the company’s specialists have over 50 years of experience in practical nursing and the product development of medical devices at the national and international level.
“Those involved in developing medical equipment may have no practical experience of working in hospitals. As a result, they may have no idea of the sort of situations, circumstances and customers the equipment will be used with, or in which ways the device instructions can be interpreted. In fact, it is common that you have to readjust medical equipment due to deficiencies or problems detected in the testing or implementation stage”
Petteri Tuuttu, a clinical specialist and partner at White Buffalo
White Buffalo’s experts in clinical specialist care are available for the different stages of the development of medical equipment by companies and startups in health technology. Companies can flexibly hire White Buffalo’s specialists for generating ideas on a short term or enter into a longer partnership with them. Many long term clients use White Buffalo’s special competence in their product development and testing.
Tailored service
White Buffalo provides all services related to product development projects: planning, clinical testing and operational testing. The company also manages technical documentation and the requirements set to products under various laws. The specialists at White Buffalo are involved in verifying the quality of user instructions and also provide implementation training for finished products.
“In some cases, partnering with the client for the duration of the entire project from the design stage to product implementation comes most naturally, but we can also jump in at any phase of a product development project. We are highly flexible. We serve as a pair of eyes for practical work. We ensure that your equipment works well, is safe and reliable, and people how to operate it correctly. For us, the main thing is ensuring the patient safety of your product”, say Muhammad Haneefa, a clinical specialist and partner at White Buffalo.
Wherever needed, the specialists at White Buffalo will also organize tailored training to engineers designing the products. The purpose of the training is to convey a perspective of clinical work to those designing the products so that they will be able to create more operational products. White Buffalo has access to a very extensive network that allows the company to offer top experts from highly specific areas to consult product developers.
“We have been told that it is highly unusual to come across product development and clinical nursing specialists like us who are also able to bring a concrete aspect to product development. We are almost as rare as a white buffalo”
Mari Partio, a clinical specialist and partner at White Buffalo
Do not hesitate to call Mari, Muhammad or Petteri. Discussing with them allows you to find out how they can best help you avoid errors and achieve savings in product development costs.
