Engineering Open-Source Medical Devices: A Reliable Approach for Safe, Sustainable and Accessible Healthcare

This book focuses on the challenges and potentials of open source and  collaborative design approaches and strategies in the biomedical field.  It provides a comprehensive set of good practices and methods for making  these safe, innovative and certifiable biomedical devices reach  patients and provide successful solutions to healthcare issues. The  chapters are sequenced to follow the complete lifecycle of open source  medical technologies. The information provided is eminently practical,  as it is supported by real cases of study, in which collaboration among  medical professionals, engineers and technicians, patients and patient  associations, policy makers, regulatory bodies, and citizens has proven  beneficial. The book is also supported by an online infrastructure,  UBORA, through which open-source medical devices can be collaboratively  developed and shared for the democratization of medical technology and  for promoting accessible biomedical engineering education.