ClariMed's Aarti Swaminathan Featured in Design News for MEDevice Silicon Valley Presentation

ClariMed Senior Human Factors Consultant Shares Insights on Addressing Gender Bias in Medical Device Development

ClariMed is pleased to share that Aarti Swaminathan, Senior Human Factors Consultant and Manager, was featured in Design News for her presentation at MEDevice Silicon Valley. Her talk, "Beyond Pink and Shrink: Evidence-Based Usability for Women's Health," explored how the underrepresentation of women in medical device research contributes to poorer health outcomes—and how evidence-based usability practices can help address this gap.

Aarti highlighted that women make up only about one-third of participants in medical device trials, dropping to 29% for high-risk implants like stents and pacemakers. She outlined three types of bias—physical, computational, and interpretational—and offered practical strategies for mitigating them, including leveraging gender-inclusive anthropometric datasets, embedding inclusivity into task and risk analysis, and testing with diverse user populations before design lock.

"Understanding and accounting for how these considerations can affect your product is the first step of being able to fix it," Aarti noted in the presentation.

Read the full article: Evidence-Based Usability Could Help Overcome Gender Bias in Medtech & Improve Health Outcomes — Design News, November 21, 2025, by Daphne Allen.