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Focus on: Woodland Heights Medical Center, Biomedical Department.

The Biomedical Engineering department of Woodland Heights Medical Center provides both emergency and scheduled medical equipment maintenance. Throughout the growth of the community and the acquisition of advanced, state-of-the art technology, the biomedical staff have endeavored to sharpen necessary skills and expand services in an effort to meet the equipment and user needs in a growing market. An unusual combination of medical repair technology and the management of total hospital risk has resulted in the creation of a new department.

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PubMed2006

Purity and the dangers of regenerative medicine: regulatory innovation of human tissue-engineered technology.

This paper examines the development of innovation in human tissue technologies as a form of regenerative medicine, firstly by applying 'pollution ideas' to contemporary trends in its risk regulation and to the processes of regulatory policy formation, and secondly by analysing the classificatory processes deployed in regulatory policy. The analysis draws upon data from fieldwork and documentary materials with a focus on the UK and EU (2002-05) and explores four arenas: governance and regulatory policy; commercialisation and the market; 'evidentiality' manifest in evidence-based policy; and publics' and technology users' values and ethics. The analysis suggests that there is a trend toward 'purification' across these arenas, both material and socio-political. A common process of partitioning is found in stakeholders' attempts to define a clear terrain, which the field of tissue-engineered technology might occupy. We conclude that pollution ideas and partitioning processes are useful in understanding regulatory ordering and innovation in the emerging technological zone of human tissue engineering.

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The advent of high-tech home care in Germany.

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to examine the current situation in which high-tech home care is going to materialize in Germany in the beginning of the new millennium. It will be shown that there have been long-standing efforts to bring about a corresponding expansion of home care as can be observed in other countries (e.g., United States). It is apparent, however, that these efforts are still crowned by only modest success. This especially applies to high-tech home care. The introduction of this special form of care is turning out to be a complicated process on a collision course with a great number of obstacles due to the peculiarities of Germany's health care system. If the nursing options related to high-tech home care are to be opened up and put into practice in the future, numerous prerequisites for their development will first have to be created. From a public health nursing viewpoint the three most pressing issues on the list of priorities relevant to high-tech home care are to: (1) increase awareness of the problems associated with this special form of care; (2) eliminate the present information deficits in society; and (3) initiate a debate in Germany about possibilities and limitations of technology-intensive home care, building on international exchange of experiences and ideas.

Biomedical Technology↗
PubMed2007

The drug development crisis: efficiency and safety.

Despite advancements in genetics, chemistry, and protein engineering, recent years have seen fewer approvals of new drugs, increases in development costs, and high-profile drug withdrawals. This article focuses on technologic methods for improving drug development efficiency. These technologies include high-content cell screening, expression profiling, mass spectroscopy, mouse models of disease, and a post-launch screening program that enables investigations of adverse drug effects. Implementation of these new technologies promises to improve performance in drug development and safety.

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PubMed2000

Alteration to will as an experience of technology and nursing.

This paper presents one finding to arise from a recent qualitative research study that examined ways of understanding technology in surgical nursing, and examines its implications for nursing and health care practice. Although the research reported identified eight qualitatively different ways of understanding technology, this paper examines the specific experience that technology can alter will (volition). The experience described is a new area of knowledge and is in need of further examination and research. Nonetheless, it is significant to understanding technology, contemporary nursing practice and the provision of health care services. The paper concludes with some suggested approaches for curtailing the experience and a discussion related to challenges that arise from the finding that technology can alter the free will of nurses.

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The short life of a medical device.

One hospital studied the life cycle of emerging cardiovascular technologies so it could form better investment and strategy decisions.

Biomedical Technology↗
PubMed1962

Biomedical electronics: potentialities and problems.

The present annual expenditure in the biomedical sciences, now less than 2 percent of the funds appropriated for defense, must be significantly increased if the great gain that can result from the adequate application of electronic technology in biomedical science is to be realized. Such use of electronics in biomedical science holds promise of tremendous advances in the study of the origins of the life processes; it may result in spectacular advances in medical science, which could have a definite effect on individual health and longevity; it might pave the way for the discovery and development of whole new technologies based on intimate knowledge of biological processes. Great strides can be made in surmounting the major obstacles by combating apathy, through making the public and the industrial community aware of the potentialities of modern biomedical research, and by giving scientists adequate cross-disciplinary training and using the abilities of those so trained (1).

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