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On the Sustainable Growth of the Biomedical Industry Reinvented Through Innovative Open-Source Medical Devices by Andrés Díaz Lantada; Rocío Rodríguez-Rivero; Ana Moreno Romero; Rafael Borge García; Luis Ignacio Ballesteros Sánchez; Licia Di Pietro; Carmelo De Maria; Arti Ahluwalia is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Open-source medical devices (OSMDs) and collaborative developments in biomedical engineering (BME) are challenging the status quo of the biomedical industry. The more traditional approaches to the development of medical technology may soon be outperformed by these emerging trends, which pursue healthcare technology equity. This equity can be achieved by additionally involving end users (i.e. patients, healthcare professionals, associations, citizens), as co-creators throughout the innovation chain, and by sharing the final blueprints of open-source devices, ideally with a "free as in freedom" scheme. As discussed in this chapter, OSMDs may convey several social, economic and environmental benefits, when compared with more traditional medical technologies, and their expansion, if adequately supported and mentored, is aligned with several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda (see Sect. 11.2). Accordingly, the collaboration of international communities through online e-infrastructures and the promotion of basic common principles for the co-creation of safe and competitive OSMDs are necessary. Besides, an understanding of the objective benefits of shifting to open-so

Author

Andrés Díaz Lantada; Rocío Rodríguez-Rivero; Ana Moreno Romero; Rafael Borge García; Luis Ignacio Ballesteros Sánchez; Licia Di Pietro; Carmelo De Maria; Arti Ahluwalia

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030793623

Subjects

Medical, Medicine