Nuestro grupo organiza el VI Encuentro de Investigación – IMIENS sobre Innovación en Tecnologías para la salud el próximo 13 de Diciembre 2016 en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad Psicología de la UNED La asistencia es gratuita, sólo…

Open-source medical devices are already available, even if they are not marketed as such. Table 1 shows a summary of the 10 devices that were compared in this paper. Evidently, open-source offers a solution to…

Infusion pumps dispense fluid over a set amount of time. In hospitals they are used to deliver medication for treatments like chemotherapy and pain management, while laboratories use them for everything from microfluidics to bioprinting….

Jansen [i] built an open-source desktop CT scanner (see figure 1) for small objects. The complete design files are available online, [ii] including the mechanical design, circuit schematics and firmware. The CT scanner uses a…

This work compares 10 of open-source healthcare projects in terms of how easy it is to obtain the required components and build the device. Each one of the following blog entries will analyze one of…

Pearce developed a set of formulas to quantify the value of open-source hardware design. One way is to compare distributed manufacturing to traditional manufacturing, based on the number of downloads of a design that results…

According to the WHO, 70-90% of all medical devices donated to the developing world never function as intended. [i] [ii] Very simple faults, like a broken fuse or dead batteries, account for 15% of these…

A wide range of open-source hardware that includes healthcare sensors and low-cost single-board computers are readily available on the consumer market. The Arduino, arguably one of the most widespread and successful open-source hardware platforms, contains…