Oscilloscopes Enable Accurate Microvolt Biomedical Measurements
Measuring electrical phenomena presents a number of challenges for biomedical signal measurement systems. The tiny, microvolt-level electrical pulses that signal a firing neuron or a muscle response are often obscured by high-amplitude noise or accompanied by significant dc potentials. Quite often,
(September, 2012)
Wireless Opportunities in Medical Devices
It is a classic image: a critically ill patient in a hospital bed connected to various medical devices by wires and IV tubing for monitoring and treatment. These devices are attached to the wall beside the bed and wired into the hospital infrastructure. While this is certainly still a real and neces
(July, 2012)
Medical Device Mechatronics Maturity
Even if your only motive is maximizing profit, not maximizing your organization’s mechatronics maturity is a waste of your resources.
(May, 2012)
Better, Faster, Smarter—What's Next For Connected Health
The evolution of connected healthcare is starting to accelerate. Even though medical devices and services can take years to go through FDA approval, consumers and individual doctors are moving to adopt new practices based on connected health devices and services. In 2011, we surveyed consumers and
(March, 2012)
Exploiting the 5 GHz Band for Medical Devices
In the early 2000s, wireless local area networking became a mainstream technology known as Wi-Fi. Computing devices such as laptops and notebooks began to support the IEEE 802.11b standard, which has a top data rate of 11 Mb/s and operates in the 2.4 GHz frequency band. After 802.11b came 802.11g, w
(February, 2012)
Arming Patients with Physiological Data
Electronically savvy patients, or “e-patients,” are thought to have better clinical outcomes than patients treated in a clinician-only controlled environment. That is the conclusion of a recent article titled “Exploration of the E-Patient Phenomenon in Nursing Informatics.”
(February, 2012)
Build and Validate Safety in Medical Device Software
The complexity of the software employed in many medical devices means that ensuring their safety requires complement testing with a combination of other techniques such as design validation, implementation validation, and remaining fault estimation.
(January, 2012)
