Authors:
Touby Drew
and
Steve Goetz
Affiliation:
Neuromodulation, Medtronic, Inc., United States
Keyword(s):
Implant, IMD, Instrument, Software, Trends, Architecture, Mainstream, Programmer.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Instrumentation
;
Biomedical Instruments and Devices
;
Devices
;
Health Monitoring Devices
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Implantable Electronics
;
Physiological Computing Systems
Abstract:
Active implantable medical devices increasingly depend on and interact with external systems of instrument hardware and software. Based on our work in defining and refining the direction of next generation instruments, we submit that there are and will increasingly be a trend towards complex, mainstream instrument systems, which are distributed, decoupled and part of rich modular information ecologies. As this shift occurs, important challenges arise and must be met with domain-specific solutions including those in the areas of security, repartitioning, and changes to instrument architecture and development.