Medical and Healthcare

Telemedicine System Design, Medical Device Design, and Biotechnology Equipment

The medical community offers a high quality, rapid and reliable healthcare design service to support companies with the development of electronic products for medical devices, diagnostics devices, telemedicine systems and biotechnology equipment. Experienced in medical device design and knowledge of regulatory affairs means that all design work is carried out to the highest quality and in full accordance with appropriate international standards:

• Immediate access to a large pool of specialist knowledge and medical electronics design experience
• Complete end-to-end range of development services for medical devices: industrial design, embedded software, analogue and digital hardware design
• Design for manufacture in a high volume medical device, low cost, or high value engineering
• Rapid prototyping: turning ideas into products in the optimum timescale
• Regulatory assistance for FDA approvals and CE marking

Involved in a wide breadth of projects with medical applications, from primary care ultrasound equipment through to over-the-counter disposable diagnostic devices. Examples include:

• Medical telemetry system design for remote monitoring of patient diagnostic data
• Primary care X-ray imaging equipment
• In-vitro male fertility tester electronics development
• Miniaturisation of wireless transceivers.

Telemetry also is used for patients (biotelemetry) who are at risk of abnormal heart activity, generally in a coronary care unit. Such patients are outfitted with measuring, recording and transmitting devices. A data log can be useful in diagnosis of the patient's condition by doctors. An alerting function can summon nurses if the patient is suffering from an acute or dangerous condition.

Telemedicine System Design

Wireless technology offers not only the opportunity to alleviate bedside cabling, but offers further opportunities such as continuous monitoring, drug delivery feedback and A&E advance status notification.

With extensive experience in designing and placing into manufacture wireless systems, both within, and outside the Healthcare arena. No single wireless solution is ideal for all telemedicine applications. Experience in a diverse spectrum of technologies allows the optimum technology to be used for the medical device design that is in progress.

Telecare Case Study

Increased life expectancy and rising healthcare costs make it a priority to ensure that the elderly are able to remain independently living in their own homes for as long as possible. The Brunel University Millennium Homes project where wireless technology was used to transfer data from a sensor network to a central core processor which monitored the well-being of a resident in their own home.

Low Power Ultra-narrow Band Telemetry

Battery life is often a major concern with wireless telemedicine device designs and to apply technology developed from other applications into medical device designs. Ultra-narrow Band Telemetry system specifically deliver small packets of data in a very power efficient manner. This technology has been used in the past for equipment providing repeated status measuements from a single D-cell battery over a period of 10 years.