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Severe competition in the healthcare has forced healthcare providers to look for modern technology, equipment & devices to provide superior healthcare facility. Medical device industry is a multi-billion dollar industry whose outlook is supposed to rise in years ahead. These devices diagnose and treat a multitude of patient infirmity and work much better than drugs. Hospital care is rising and the medical device industry is being looked to provide low cost technology for home healthcare. Now, the industry seeks Healthcare medical devices that can be used by individuals with unskilled healthcare experience. Need for modern technology, equipment & devices can be leveraged through Medical device equipment, medical equipment manufacturers to afford better-quality healthcare solutions.

Medical Device Security

Cybersecurity risk is now patient risk
Connectivity and digitisation of healthcare and associated technologies has enhanced medical device functionality and increased benefits to both patients and users

Six Reasons to Focus on the Quality of Medtech Devices in India

Quality is a function of intent and thought First of all quality begins in the mind

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY TRENDS AND DEVICE REGULATION

Medical technology has brought us here and technological advancements have fuelled it to reach amazing heights New innovations have been coming at an ever increasing rate

NEW NORMAL, NEW FUTURE

Reshaping the Future of Health through MedTech Innovation
The COVID pandemic without a doubt is the single most notable event in our recent history It has put healthcare front and centre on the agenda for governments healthcare companies and patients

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND TECHNIQUES

Unveiling new possibilities in the treatment of atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation AF is a growing epidemic that affects over million people in the Asia Pacific alone This number is only expected to increase reaching as high as million by due to ageing populations and increased incidence of lifestylerelated risk factors such as obesity physical inactivity and hypertension

MANAGING MEDICAL DEVICES FAILURE RISK

Improving health outcomes
Medical devices play a critical role in diagnosis treatment and rehabilitation of disease and illness According to estimates over medical devices are in use on a daily basis in healthcare facilities all over the world Some of them are simple while others are quite complex and combine more than pone technology The global market of medical devices i...

MEDICAL DEVICE INTEGRATION

ESSENTIAL TO PROACTIVE PATIENT SAFETY
Highrisk patients who require respiratory support or monitoring are found not only in highacuity areas Identifying the patients who are vulnerable to deterioration is critical to patient safety measures that emphasise timely interventions over costly emergency rescues Ubiquitous data in a predetermined clinical workday demands streamlined workflow...

Medical Device IP strategies

With access to healthcare being a major challenge in countries like India networks like BETiC at IIT Bombay startups and enterprises have been combining engineering principles to medical science to create innovations and breakthroughs in medical technologies

Can Thailand become a MedTech Innovator instead of a MedTech Customer?

Thailand is well poised for building and sustaining a startup culture encouraged by the governments Thailand vision which has seen entire sectors of the economy being rebuilt with new technology and overseas investment

DIGITALISATION

THE FUTURE OF LABORATORY MEDICINE
As healthcare shifts towards personalisation and digitalisation diagnostics allow individuals to receive vital information with increased accuracy specificity and speed

CURRENT SCENARIO OF REGULATION AND MONITORING OF MEDICAL DEVICES IN GLOBAL REALMS OF WORLD

United States, Europe, Japan, China and India
Requirements for the regulation of development propagation and approval of medical devices are of great competitive interest which assures that it should be of good quality safety and efficacy in order to protect improve and monitor public health After the development and before the distribution of medical devices into the market it is supposed to...

Medical Equipment Management

Medical equipment plays an important role in healthcare delivery It ranges from small and simple devices such as sphygmomanometer to complex and big devices such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging MRI machines This ranking is as a result of differences in utilised technologies and intended applications

Regulation vs. Innovation

Are we getting it right?
Although prescription drugs comprise a relatively small percentage of overall healthcare expenditures they nonetheless represent the primary pointofcontact between the majority of the population and the healthcare system While per cent of Americans fill a prescription in any given year only per cent typically experience a hospital stay Worldwide...

Industry 4.0

Manufacturing and the future of medical things
The Industry I revolution is already redefining how we manufacture things today It sets out the concepts for how companies can achieve faster innovation and increase efficiencies across the value chain But in the world of medical device manufacturing which is burdened with regulatory compliance and is still largely dependent on paperbased processe...

Are We Close to a Global Ban on Powdered Medical Gloves?

Gloves are the most common type of Personal Protective Equipment PPE Gloves are considered a barrier protecting both healthcare worker and patient from the transfer of harmful microorganisms Powder has been used as a lubricant in the manufacture of medical gloves in order to facilitate donning and to avoid blocking of the glove Nowadays the more wi...

Emerging Trends in Medical Innovation for 2017

The past few years have been transformative in the world of medical innovation with the use of personal and portable devices and advances in integrating these with personal healthcare and information technology systems In we have witnessed tremendous growth in portable and mobile devices Looking forward to we will likely expand on this growth wit...

Preventing Medical Errors with Proven Bar-Code Technology

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Medical Device Research at a Regional Health System

The Mercy experience
Mercys research department develops information from electronic information systems to support quality improvement and operational efficiencies that generate revenue A major research effort was a Unique Device Identifier UDI project which resulted in operational efficiencies and a database that is being used for comparative effectiveness and safety...

Nano-Healthcare

Biotechnology & biomedical perspective of disruptive potential
Nanotechnology or the science of the small has become the buzzword of academic and industrial circles which has diversified across various verticals such as healthcare aerospace defense materials and many more The beginnings of nanotechnology could be attributed to Sir Richard Feynman who in his landmark lecture titled There is Plenty of Room at th...

Devices for the Failing Heart

The future is here
Mechanical Circulatory Support MCS is an important adjunct to the management of patients with severe heart failure Because the number of donor hearts available for transplantation is limited the use of MCS is growing as a valid alternative to save the lives of patients who are facing death There is substantial eviden