It is a classic image: a critically ill patient in a hospital bed connected to various medical devices by wires and IV tubing for monitoring and treatment. These devices are attached to the wall beside the bed and wired into the hospital infrastructure. While this is certainly still a real and necessary role for medical devices, the needs have expanded to include many other locations, roles in patient care, types of devices and connections to patients and devices.
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Medical devices like hip implants and heart defibrillators will soon join the ranks of cars and toasters.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule that would require each medical device to have a unique code that could improve tracking and catch safety problems earlier. The proposal comes five years after Congress first mandated the codes.
While these codes are already present for most consumer goods, in the ubiquitous barcodes scanned at the grocery store, they have been absent from life-sustaining medical devices.
This is a preview of Biomedical Devices getting Unique ID’s in USA to track safety.
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The dramatic changes in rupee value affect the billion dollar medical equipment industry. While it proves beneficiary to some it is a bane to many. Let us find out its impact on the current scenario.
The healthcare market in India is estimated to be worth $ 40 billion with the medical equipment industry contributing $ 2.5 billion that is 6 per cent of the total. While the healthcare sector grows at 11-12 per cent annually the medical equipment market is growing at 15 per cent annually. In 2011,India was the forth largest market for medical equipment and is expected to grow at 12-16 per cent according to a report by Pacific Bridge Medical.
This is a preview of Impact of Economic Slowdown on the Biomedical & Healthcare.
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What does it take to get to the top of the healthcare technology management profession? Jenifer Brown knows. As a former recruiter for ARAMARK Healthcare Technologies, Brown placed talent in hospitals all over the country. Now she has started her own recruiting business called Health Tech Talent Management.She talks here about the skills a candidate should have, where the profession is going, and the biggest “oops” that a biomed can make in an interview.
How did you first get involved with recruiting biomeds?
For the past 22 years, I have been involved with all technical industries, but biomed really became a major focus for me when I was the technical career advisor for ECPI College of Technology.
This is a preview of Biomedical Job Tips from a Healthcare recruiter.
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A discussion about Problems faced by Potential fresher Biomedical Engineers in India
Banging Voice Of BME Freshers:
1. let me know fr any biomed jobs!!
2.got job but its complete field work!!
3.got job but nt satisfied wid company!!
4. The main pbm is, got job but scale of pay is very low !!
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goz on!!!
but in india recently we ‘vl be having atleast sm gud improvement in medical field!!
then y our arena s stil going so blur??
Without any industrial motivations to biomed engineers, our Biomed field wont be grow up!! hard to digest !!
This is a preview of An Interaction B/w Freshers, Job Goers & Entrepreneurs of Biomedical.
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