kBLASTER

kBLASTER

Understanding medical device 510(k) clearance characteristics led us to previously unimagined insights -- discoveries you couldn't make using traditional research methods.
-Eric Eggers, Principal Digital Health Consult, Founder/CEO of kBLASTER.

By enabling self-service extraction of actionable insight from FDA medical device 510(k) clearance summaries, kBLASTER has helped save tens of thousands of dollars in 510(k) regulatory strategy and follow-on 510(k) submission spending, as well as accelerating the 510(k) clearance timeframe. 

  • Created self-service tools.
  • Optimized customer facing service availability.
  • Automated ETL pipeline to accommodate frequent corpus updates.
  • Created error measurements and validation procedures.
  • Added product features: as the corpus expands, push notification of new results found in user-saved queries; faceted sorting.
  • Research: augmented document discovery UX using Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model.