Those three words have become the unofficial motto of medtech development in recent decades as clinicians and innovators worked to improve both patient care and access. Driven by the advent of digital health and minimally invasive technologies, the slogan has spawned numerous inventions that are less intrusive and better suited for home use (think oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines, cochlear implants, and pacemakers).
“Medical manufacturers are moving entire systems—from home-based and clinical devices to imaging applications—into a portable unit the size of a cell phone or smaller,” states a 2016 whitepaper from Microsemi Corporation, an Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based provider of semiconductor and system solutions for the aerospace and defense, communications, data center, and industrial markets. “What was once huge equipment tethered to a wall has become available in mobile clinics, ambulances, and in a doctor’s bag for house calls.”
Some devices are now even small enough to be lost inside the doctor’s bag. Pacemakers, for example, have shrunk fr
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