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Article about medical embedded systems

January 4, 2021 • < 1 MIN READ
By Colin Walls

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.

Colin Walls

I have over thirty years experience in the electronics industry, largely dedicated to embedded software. A frequent presenter at conferences and seminars and author of numerous technical articles and two books on embedded software, I am a member of the marketing team of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division, and am based in the UK. Away from work, I have a wide range of interests including photography and trying to point my two daughters in the right direction in life. Learn more about Colin, including his go-to karaoke song and the best parts of being British: http://go.mentor.com/3_acv

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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/embedded-software/2021/01/04/article-about-medical-embedded-systems/