One of the key application in modern science and engineering is on the improvement of health care.  From early days of the accidental discovery of the first X-ray machine to the modern MRI machines that can detect the tiny difference in tissue densities to the human genome that can make personalized medicine possible.  Many universities' engineering schools have separate biomedical departments.  There are hundreds of research conferences every year around the world sharing every new technologies that can be used to improve our health lives.  

One of the key improvements we see is in the area of sensory technologies.  Sensors have evolved both in the material science and the fabrication process.  Today's sensors are more sensitive, drawing much less power, smaller and thinner.  Sensor can be so flexible that it can be attached like a band-aid.  Or it can be smaller enough to be swallowed and pass through the GI track.  The fabrication process is also improving that allows sensors to be made much more cost effectively.    ​The efficiency has improved to the point where disposable is a reality, which simplifies the bio-hazard control process.  

With the semiconductor revolution and prevalent of mobile devices, computation hardware are smaller, faster and cheaper.    Processing can be much more sophisticated, with correlation from large array of sensors or multi genres of detectors.  We sees two trend in the computation innovations, one is advancing toward squeezing more performance into a smaller and portable package;  another trend is to make ultra high performance computing servers more readily available.  Advanced algorithm that would require a matrix of large gate arrays merely five years ago, can now be achieved on a PCB no bigger than a business card.  Massive parallel calculation that would require a super computer can now be achieved on a compact 3U chassis with eight GPUs.  
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In today ever connected world, data is not only stored and shared across the network, but also processed and analyzed in the cloud compute servers.  Data, static and live images can be shared across the hospital, city or around the world.  Network technology allows health care provider to offer remote diagnosis and even remote surgeries.  The challenges facing the device developers is how to maintain the level of QoS under various strenuous conditions, while keeping the latency to the minimum and guarantee a secured connection.    

Modern medical devices require break through synergy among these these new technologies.  Please contact us to learn about how you can leverage ours and our partner's expertise in these fields.