CAS-One IR®

Where it all started

Sep 2019 - Jun 2020

CAS-One IR was establishing itself as the new pioneering, med-tech system in interventional radiology. It's technology was already outstanding, however the user interface did not made it justice.

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I joined the team back in 2019 as an intern in the software development, which allowed me to discover this medical field and the gap our product was bridging. Throughout my internship year, I did not only participate in the development, but also was introduced into the documentation required for the release of a medical device (under MDD).

Training

Aug 2020- Oct 2020

Soon after my internship ended and CASCINATION invested in my training on usability engineering (by my mentor Lukas Heumos, previoulsly trained by the Johner Institut) and design (Ironhack Berlin), so that I could take the role of Software Usability Engineer. CASCINATION has more products other than CAS-One IR, but given my background knowledge on the project from my internship year, this became my first project.

First full project

Oct 2020- May 2021

The job combined both my development expertise and my newly acquired skills as a designer and usability engineer, which ultimately meant I had to:

• Design the UI
• Be one of the developers (mainly doing front-end)
• Prepare the Usability File

My presence in all stages of the project (design, development and documentation) took my understanding of the scope and requirements of a medical device project to the next level. By allowing me to comprehend how intertwined the technical, safety and regulatory aspects are, I was ready for my next long-term project as process owned of CASCINATION's Usability: the Usability SOP. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

The project was released with its main change being switching its UI, into a more modern and slick look. With small and measured changes the software was reborn. The upgrade included:

1. using a standadised icon library (instead of the custom and photo-realistic icons
2. harmonizing the color palette (dark theme and less vibrant colors)
3. adding a new feature called AblaSure®

This version was released under the MDD in May 2021.

More and better

May 2021 - February 2023

For the past 2 years, the software has only gotten better. My role slowly became more focused on the design and documentation, rather than the development. The team did an extrodinary job introducing new key features like automatic organ segmentation, enhanced AblaSure and added the requested feature: translation.

From the design perspective, the UI kept its dark aesthetics. With new AI feature which segmented the organs, the UI naturally became more colorful, since each organ was given an identifiable color. This resulted in "cleaning-up" the rest of the UI, by changing the previously active state (blue outline - see image above) with a filled gray background as shown in the image below.

This also marked the first Usability file done under the new European Medical Regulation: the MDR.

Hardware under MDR

Feb 2023 - Present

Today we keep working on complying with the Medical Device Regulation in Europe. The software has already been released under the new regulation and we are working on releasing the hardware. Consequently, I have been mainly involved in documentation for all these different medical components.