Article about medical embedded systems

My latest article on embedded.com has been published here. I am looking at the opportunities and challenges of embedded medical applications. Here are the details:

Harnessing emergent opportunities and challenges for medical embedded applications

Demand for medical care and, hence, for all the equipment that enables the care to be delivered, has been rising exponentially in recent years. This is all great news for the shareholders of medical instrument manufacturers and the embedded system developers employed by those companies. It is the challenges and opportunities enjoyed by this latter group that is the topic of this article.