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Medical hardware consists of any physical product that is used for medical purposes in patients, such as diagnosis, therapy or surgery. Medical hardware devices includes a broad range of products—including but not limited to tongue depressors, thermometers, blood sugar meters, artificial hearts, stents, Sonogram machines, X-ray machines, stethoscopes, and wheelchairs. The global market of medical software reached almost $209 billion in 2006 and is expected to grow with an average annual rate of 6 – 9 percent through 2011. Revisit the Medical Hardware channel for a variety of breaking news, case studies and white papers related to medical hardware products.
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If you've ever had a CT scan or an MRI, you most likely didn't want to repeat it. But did you know that 20 percent of images must be performed again because they are lost, or misfiled, or can't be sha… [ Read More ]
Advance notice of product specification changes on all Arkema Inc. Pebax® SA 01 MED must now be made in a much smaller window - 12 months- to provide device manufacturers enough time for regulatory as… [ Read More ]
But it's also the name of the company that has been selected by UC Irvine Medical Center to connect all devices throughout the campus with its solutions for integrating medical devices and delivering … [ Read More ]
As a doctor not even 10 years ago, your only choice for ultra-sound was a large machine that was considered portable as it was "wheelable" everywhere. Today there's a new option and providers can u… [ Read More ]
Hip replacements that fail within months because of their defective metal-on-metal parts. Drug-coated heart stents that cause blood clots and other possibly deadly complications. Faulty defibrillator … [ Read More ]
Spectocor today announced its PocketECG, which pulls together traditional Holter, event and mobile telemetry monitoring, analyzing and then streaming cardiac rhythm data continuously to a monitoring c… [ Read More ]
Cambashi, a U.K. research and consulting firm for production industries, revealed today it's running a study on regulated medical device manufacturing, according to a company press release. The st… [ Read More ]
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were supposed to markedly improve our lives by providing information to medical professionals wherever and whenever it was needed. A big part of that was images, like … [ Read More ]

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