In 2008 the medical electronics industry is still ahead of the "fairy tale"

If you tell you: there is not affected by the economic crisis affecting the sale, you will not believe.

You can thank the medical electronics is one of them, because of its development, not just demand, there is the rise in the cost of population ageing, and other global issues. Despite the economic crisis in medical electronic performance still so not temperature does not fire.

Seems also to appreciate the calm, in order to catch in 2008 manufacturing a surprise at the end of December, has revealed that the "new health reform programme is expected to be launched in January of next year.

"This is for the medical industry 2009 what opportunity? future market capacity what? I, each of the medical profession who have to breathe in the screen in which you find yourself in the future.

Of course, there are indeed to work, although the results are good, some bad.

Also in 2008 Continua Health Alliance (sports better health Alliance) that is posted in the monitoring equipment and medical service providers between wireless and wired data transmission of the original guide specification. Although these guidelines specification will involve our familiar devices, but data transfer structure would also apply to much more complex. But how to meet regulatory requirements and how to handle medical service provider's negligence? how to solve the lag IT infrastructure status of thwarted? believe that technological progress will make all natural.

The same is for medical applications, October 2008, Actel announces mixed signal Fusion and low-power IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGA series designed to help medical device designers in developing small and portable trend of frontier.

In its publication of the previous month, ADI has introduced is the industry's fastest 16-bit successive approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). In 2007, Adi has the entire data converter market 47% share, prosperity for the medical sector are data converter vendors pushed to new limits. In order to share with your competitors scramble, winning the market first, TI also earlier than March launched a 10-bit and 8-channel 12-bit ADC series products, its applications include medical imaging, wireless communication, military navigation, automatic test equipment, and video processing, etc. And in June and the India Institute of technology (IIT) Jamie Carragher Poole, medical science and Technology Institute (SMST) signed a cooperation agreement aimed at developing semiconductor technology to lower the cost of medical electronics.

In August 2008 the San Francisco information of Intel Technology Summit also shows the remote medical technology.

This research work enables Intel researchers to understand the future to address rural areas, emergency services and disaster assistance, and other medical needs of the required technology. NI company since June in the United States provides a range of free training courses, guidance on how to use NI technologies to develop medical instruments, as well as how to ensure that the equipment through the United States food and Drug Administration (FDA) validation. In the "SARS" is particularly striking in the performance of the ST course does relax, as early as 2008 03 month and Veredus laboratories of Singapore announced a new rapid test anytime for all major influenza types of portable "slice laboratory detection of application equipment VereFlu". Although in the medical field means different fighting, but for this to work.

And 1, 2 years ago, the major semiconductor companies independent medical sector compared to Philips November that will reduce their global medical device sector, 1600 employees.

"Given the current economic situation of a limited nature, we had to take some measures to maintain the profit level. "Philips Global CEO says.

Although action frequently, but not suffice shocked by the industry's largest event.

2008 medical electronics field, more in the future, wave after wave of technological daydream continually challenge our imagination limit. At the end of December, the first United States non-proliferation and counter-terrorism Committee warned the United States over the next five years of biological attacks may occur, it is recommended that the new President Omar BA on water and air of detection of pathogens. The same is the United States, also in December, the United States Navy Research Department is planning to develop an embedded chip hospital programme, to monitor the status of the injured soldiers and arrange treatment. If successful, a four-year investment of $ project will provide United States soldiers provide a long service life of the device, you can provide vital information and assist in the treatment of the wounded. In fact, 4-month International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) published papers, have been constantly teasing the industry of neural: Wireless Silicon monitor can use like band-aid, then thrown away after use; chip is expected to become the first commercial retina alternatives; device for measuring waveforms can still be deeply rooted in the brain. In short, they make people more convinced: biology will be the next important electronic applications. At the same time, if Japan's NTT DoCoMo succeed, future mobile phones will have the data rate, 250Mbps and through bio-chip to a drop of blood or sweat analysis of disease or stress.

The power supply appears to be a newer topic, of course, for medical electronics is no exception.

Researchers developed the use of the appliance powered by beating heart, the test results show that this generator can provide traditional cardiac pacemaker needed 1/3 power. At the same time, the Johns Hopkins University researchers believe they have discovered a better way to produce avoid human rejection: made from natural protein combination of self (self-assembling) organic wires. MIT researchers will micro contact printing technology and based on the virus's self assembly technologies, claiming that developed a micron-level of the battery. Battery to printing on a variety of different surface, while the size is approximately half of the body's cells (5 microns).

Nevertheless, earlier in 2008, market research agencies

Espicom still optimistic, the 2010 global medical equipment market will exceed $ 200 billion, of which, medical electronics will be 45%, reaching US $ 90 billion. Chinese market economy accelerated development, accelerate the process of hospital information and relevant policy changes and other factors, the next five years the medical electronics semiconductor market will take 11% compound annual rate of growth in 2010 will be more than 35 million.

Medical electronic devices on stability, performance in demanding requirements, the equipment and physical security requirements, as well as medical system of certification of the special needs of medical electronic components and design solutions, as well as materials and production technology and so put forward higher requirements.

While the device is "small" and "portable", also for engineers and technicians made greater challenges. In this constantly in the process of transcending the challenge, medical electronics in its "fairy tale" spent in 2008.