Monitoring patient vital signs in their homes can lead to better health care at lower cost. However, designers must be ready to address a set of design challenges that are unique among medical devices. Today’s increased quality of medical care comes with a price—higher costs. Remote diagnosis and treatment of illness is fast becoming the…

The increasingly complex requirements of medical systems can be met using a new secure open platform built on multicore hardware with hardware-assisted virtualization with the use of hypervisors and separation kernels. Changing requirements in the healthcare industry are creating interesting consequences for the developers of tomorrow’s medical devices. For instance, there is a growing need…

For small, portable and safety-critical medical devices that can be used at home by nonprofessionals, many require exacting motor control to, for example, administer medication. The choice of a reflective motion controller can positively affect size, power, cost and accuracy considerations. In the highly complex medical device market, device manufacturers strive to develop products that…

Today’s embedded software technologies are fully capable of cutting the cost and complexity of safe medical devices. Three key steps can put developers on the path to safer, more reliable and longer-life medical solutions. Human lives depend on the safety of medical devices. That is why the primacy of safety in medical device development will not diminish,…