Phillips-Medisize wins Gold Award at MEDA
At the 18th Annual Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) Phillps-Medisize won the Gold Award in the Diagnostics Products and Systems category.
The award ceremony took place in New York City where Phillips-Medisize was cited for its role as an outsourced design and manufacturing partner of Exact Sciences, Inc.
The award-winning product, Cologuard, is the first and only FDA approved noninvasive stool DNA screening test for colorectal cancer. It is designed to help increase rates of screening compliance and is prescribed by a physician then sent to the patient’s home. The patient collects a stool sample at home at their convenience and sends the Cologuard kit back to the Exact Sciences lab for testing with a pre-paid mailer. The patient receives the results from their doctor in as little as two weeks. If the test comes back positive, the patient is referred for a diagnostic colonoscopy.
Phillips-Medisize worked with Exact Sciences on design for manufacture, along with an evaluation of the user interface and closure of the collection kit. Phillips-Medisize also manufactures and assembles the patient-ready kits.
Matt Jennings, Chairman and CEO of Phillips-Medisize corporation, said: “We are excited and humbled to win this prestigious award for our work on a breakthrough product that has the capability of reducing the incidence of colorectal cancer. It is unbelievable that colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable, yet least prevented cancers in the U.S., in part due to low screening compliance. Cologuard will help reduce the rate of this deadly disease.”
Kevin Conroy, Chairman and CEO of Exact Sciences, said: “We would like to congratulate Phillips-Medisize on this recognition for their contribution to the design of the Cologuard collection kit. Their expertise in designing and producing high quality medical products was critical to bringing this product to patients, and we are very pleased with the results of our collaboration.”
The MDEA is the medtech industry’s premier design competition committed to searching worldwide for the highest caliber finished medical devices, products, systems, or packaging available on the market. The awards program celebrates the achievements of the medical device manufacturers, their suppliers, and the many people behind the scenes who are responsible for the cutting-edge products that are saving lives and improving patient healthcare.
An impartial panel of medtech experts judges entries in the MDEA competition. The MDEA jury is comprised of a balance of practicing doctors, nurses, and technicians alongside industrial designers, engineers, manufacturers, and human factors experts. The 2015 MDEA Juror Panel selected finalists from over 100 entries, in 10 medical technology product categories.