POSTS TAGGED AS medical devices

Top Ten Patient Safety Concerns

10 urgent patient safety challenges in 2024
“The ECRI [Emergency Care Research Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA] publishes independent medical device evaluations, [MORE]

Simpler Design of POC Devices

“Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an entirely new approach to building point-of-care diagnostic devices that only use gravity [MORE]

An Electronic Polymer for Bioelectronics

Revolutionary Transistor for High-Performance Bioelectronics
“A transdisciplinary Northwestern University research team has developed a revolutionary transistor that is expected to be [MORE]

Graphene in Medicine

How Graphene Is Innovating the Medical Device Sector
“Medical implants, from artificial throats to stents and other surgical implants, are all [MORE]

Piezoelectric Sensors

Special Electro-Active Nanoparticles Can be Used in Sensors
“Indian scientists have come up with a new method to induce the piezoelectric [MORE]

Self-Sufficient Biosensor

Nano-biosupercapacitors enable autarkic sensor operation in blood
From engineers at Chemnitz University of Technology: “we create a tubular biosupercapacitor occupying a [MORE]

“Healthcare Engineering”

Healthcare engineering
In naming itself, the American Society of Healthcare Engineering put its namesake on the map in 1962.  “Disciplines associated [MORE]

6G Terahertz Electronics, What Does It Mean for Medicine?

6G wireless technology
What if all the medical devices today that rely on batteries no longer needed them?  That’s an implication [MORE]

FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence

The Digital Center of Excellence
“The Digital Health Center of Excellence is primarily focused on helping both internal and external stakeholders [MORE]

Ultra-Precise 3D Printing

Professor Shih-Chi Chen with Ultraprecise 3-D printing technology
All of us had a mind’s eye picture of a 3D printer moving [MORE]

Breaking Down Ingestible Devices

MIT Light trigger breaks down ingestible medical devices
In this piece, MIT engineers “describe the development of a modular and tunable [MORE]

Femtosecond Speed for 3 D Printing

Two-photon lithography technology
3D printing is a relatively slow miracle; so engineers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the [MORE]

Force Sensing in Medical Devices

Force sensing technology
This piece from sensor maker, Tekscan, Inc. (South Boston, MA) describes the many applications of force sensing in [MORE]

Hydrogen Powered Nano Batteries

MIT Nano-Battery
At present, battery size is a limiting factor in developing medical devices on the micro and nano scale.  However, [MORE]