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Looking for answers? Start your search in our DesignMED resources. The DesignMED resources pages are populated with whitepapers, tutorials, datasheets, etc., all related to the design of medical electronics devices. Click here to find information necessary to avoid the pitfalls associated with medical system design. Areas covered include board design and layout, IC selection and placement, software architectures, operating systems, and much more.
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Wind River has packaged its Android expertise and technologies into three specialized software offerings: user experience, connectivity, and medical modules. This comes with the announcement of its Solution Accelerators for Android, a series of software modules that can help developers jumpstart their Android development and rapidly integrate compelling features and functionalities to their...
Malfunctions in medical devices don’t usually make the headlines the way airplane or train accidents do. For patients, however, medical device failures can have equally tragic consequences.
Device manufacturers are morally, legally, and financially bound to ensure that their products do no harm. But despite the enormous efforts manufacturers invest in validating the safety of their devices...
Over on MD+DI, the editors recently shared their picks for story of the year. I chose Jay Radcliffe’s very public hacking of his insulin pump, which medical brought device security to the spotlight in 2011.
That issue, it seems will remain in the forefront in 2012. Anup Ghosh, CEO of software security firm Invincea, told Network World that hackers are will likely look to new targets next...
A register-transfer-language (RTL) power model is designed to optimize a range of power-sensitive applications, such as ultralow-power electronics. RPM bridges the power gap between RTL design and physical implementation. The technology predicts integrated circuit (IC) power behavior at the RTL level with consideration for how the design is physically implemented. As a result, chip power...
In a series of podcasts, Leslie Saxon, the executive director of the University of Southern California Center for Body Computing, interviews leaders in the field of wireless health. There are 12 episodes. Some of the highlights include:
A key discussion on design of medical devices with Erik Olsen at Karten Design.He discusses design of users and how important user-intuitive design is for...
Express Logic recently reported that its NetX TCP/IP stack has achieved 94 Mbits/s, a 94% wire speed on Freescale’s ARM Cortex-M4-based Kinetis processor. The Kinetis has a 100-Mbit/s Ethernet port, which enables transfers at up to wire speed. Generally, TCP/IP stacks are less than 100% efficient, leading to performance well below wire speed. To facilitate rapid data transfer, the closer to...
Health 2.0, an international conference organizer, has teamed up with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to sponsor two competitions with the aim of improving healthcare outcomes.
Starting today, entries are being accepted for “The One in a Million Hearts Challenge” and “The popHealth Tools Development Challenge.” Submissions for the...
Over at our sister publication EE Times, Dave Kleidermacher, of Green Hills Software, sounds off about the controversial IOM report that recommended FDA scrap the 510(k) process. Kleidermacher agrees with the report's conclusion, and he's a more frank in his criticism of the 510(k) process than the IOM:
. . . [T]he medical industry's certification process for life-critical devices, such as...
A conference session at Health 2.0 titled “Gaming and Health 2.0” considered how the gaming industry is assuming a growing role in healthcare. Stefan Armstrong, the moderator of the event and HCP Marketing partner, explained that gaming is effective at “aligning incentives.”
Incentives, of course, are deeply embedded in everything we do as humans. (Just ask an...
Wind River is the next major operating system (OS) vendor to understand the value of having an enriched medical offering. The company recently introduced a platform for medical devices, which is part of a comprehensive software portfolio designed for medical device development, including those devices requiring premarket notification, FDA 510(k), or the more stringent Premarket Approval.
The...
A distributed modular input-output (I/O) can replace standard slice I/O and distributed I/O in industrial Ethernet applications. Using standard three-conductor cables, up to four slave devices can be connected to each master block, which communicates over the industrial Ethernet network to the controller. Each I/O device is connected to an industry-standard M12 port, creating a connection...
A company has released a software portfolio designed for medical device development. The commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) development and run-time platform enables device safety and security. It is built on the company's VxWorks, a real-time operating system (RTOS) with a history of use in medical devices. It also includes the company's Workbench, which is a collection of embedded software...
To help developers get a jump on designing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless technology into medical devices, Texas Instruments (TI) this week announced the addition of new BLE profiles to its software development kit.
We’ve talked before about what BLE means for medical electronics designers. This key feature of Bluetooth v4.0 is going to enable some pretty cool medical products,...
Embedded and mobile software provider Wind River (Alameda, CA), released the newest version of its Wind River Test Management test automation system earlier this week.
Wind River Test Management 4.0 is designed to monitor, execute, and manage embedded device software testing. It can identify vulnerable segments of production code and focus testing on changes between system builds. The system also...
A company has released a commercial embedded Linux run-time and development platform. Linux 4, Update Pack 2 is the first commercial embedded Linux to provide a fully integrated graphics software stack, from the board to the user interface framework level, according to the company. The preintegrated graphics stack includes GTK, Qt, X.Org, and the company's Tilcon Graphics Suite. It works...
Medical developers must think differently
The biggest difference between a mainstream embedded application and a medical application is that the medical device usually has to work right all the time, every time. For the majority of embedded applications, it a product has an infrequent error or needs a reboot, it’s a nuisance, but not much more than that. For medical applications, product...
Electronic health records are catching on, as Marty Briggs, creative director of marketing for healthcare technology company HealthFusion, found out on a recent visit to his family doctor. In a guest blog post for Software Advice, he relates the story of how his once-skeptical physician has finally made the leap to EHRs.
Briggs' doctor chose a version of the iPad as his preferred tablet, and he'...
Want to try out the source code from one of today’s recognized operating-system (OS) vendors? If so, go to Micrium’s web site where you’ll find the free download. This download is part of the company’s strategy to distribute its popular real-time kernel, uC/OS-III. By making the kernel “source available,” developers who want to evaluate uC/OS-III can download...
Today kicked off NIWeek 2011, National Instruments' (NI) annual conference in Austin, TX. According to organizers, this year set a record for attendance, with more than 3,300 people braving the 100°+ Texas heat to head out to the Austin Convention Center to hear about the newest developments in graphical systems design.
They were rewarded with a host of new product introductions,...
I’m a big fan of the Beagleboard. In fact, when I was involved with the Embedded Systems Conference, we would run classes whereby every attendee would receive a Beagleboard and we’d teach a whole series of classes around it, showing people how to configure it specifically for their application.
Now, I’m in possession of the follow-in product, the PandaBoard. The biggest...
A fast-write memory is designed for use in low-cost black-box recorders, to help identify the causes of equipment failures or accidents. M35B32 EEPROM has an ultrafast recording feature. It is able to record up to 2 Kb in less than one millisecond. Data to be saved quickly in the event of a problem; for example, in a power failure, the product can save the information needed to recover the...
I’m bummed that I’m missing the Freescale Tech Forum this week, better known as FTF. This is the first one I’ve missed (ever, I think). Thankfully, it’s for good personal reasons that I’m not partaking this year.
From what I’ve heard and read about the event, the show is going on in my absence. Imagine that. First, there was a panel session covering medical...
The iPad has been a hot topic on MED lately. Doctors love it, and device makers are starting to pay attention. Houston Neal, with Software Advice, a company that helps businesses find software to fit their needs, has more on how the iPad is impacting EHRs. —Jamie Hartford
From Neal:
The iPad is becoming a popular hardware device in the healthcare industry. Research has shown that...
From the place that brought us the pill camera comes a Google Earth-like view of the bladder.
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed software that combines a mosaic of images captured via an ultrathin scanning-fiber endoscope to form a 3-D image of the bladder. The endoscope, which resembles a piece of cooked spaghetti, scans the internal surface in a spiral trajectory using...
Altera, MIPS, and System Level Solutions (SLS) recently introduced a MIPS-based, FPGA-optimized soft processor for use on Altera’s FPGAs and ASICs. The MP32 processor is a MIPS-compatible applications class processor that inherits a large ecosystem of software development tools and operating system (OS) support. The MP32 soft processor is supported by Wind River’s VxWorks RTOS and the...
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