Helping Hand Data Capture was celebrated on stage at the Essen Aalto Theater in Germany on June 23, 2008. Paul Erik Fabricius, Senior Design Manager in Bang & Olufsen Medicom, received the Red Dot trophy and he pointed out that: “Good design is a key factor for integrating good medical treatment into people’s lives. If you can relate to the idea, the concept and the physical product, your chance of doing things right increases. Therefore, design has the potential of adding more value than technical developments.”

Helping Hand Data Capture has been awarded as the Best of the Best in 2008. It means that the product has been carefully selected and valued to be the best of all product designs in the medical product design category. With 3,203 submissions, the competition in the awards program has increased with 26% since last year, which shows the growing importance of good design on the global market.

Browse through the pictures from the event here or read the interview with Paul Erik Fabricius from Bang & Olufsen here.