Medical Technology

Medical Technology

Andrea Saldarriaga & Sanaz Azemoon

• Equipment used for prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of illness and disease

• Pharmaceuticals, devices, procedures, and organizational systems

What is medical technology?

Medical Milestones-Timeline

• 1250 - Magnifying Glass

• 1815 - Stethoscope

• 1841 - Anesthesia

• 1895 - First X-Ray

• 1936 - Pacemaker

• 1943 - Dialysis

• 1953 - Heart-Lung Bypass

• 1958 - Fetal ultrasound

• 1971 - CT Scanner

• 1978 - M.R.I.

• 2000 - Human Genome

• 2009 - Medical Smartphone Applications

Medical Milestones- Timeline

• RFID tagso Aid in the elimination of medical mistakeso Automates inventory management

• HF tagso Short read ranges used to tag blood and tissue

samples

• UHF tagso Used to rapidly track critical medical devices and

manage inventory

Benefits of E-commerce in healthcare

• Transactions and the exchange of information have become much easier

• Information and communication technologies have improved supply chainso Decreased expenseso Information about orders, production, inventory,

and delivery can be easily processed and shared

E-commerce in B2B healthcare

• Johnson & Johnson • Siemens AG• Oracle• Cook Medical Supply • Smartphone Applications

Competitors/Contributors

• Oracle provides organizations with the most integrated business applications, servers, and storage solutions

• 10 of the top 12 healthcare organizations run Oracle applications

• 70% of the top multi-hospital systems in the US run Oracle technology

Oracle

• Founded in 1963 in Indiana• Makes 16,000 products for 135 countries

• Assigned GTIN to minimize data errors

• 60% of North American orders are now automated due to e-commerce

Cook Medical Supply

• 2000’s introduced digital lifestyle devices

• 2010’s Era of digital medical deviceso Personalized digital health

recordso Non invasive disposable sensors o Body Area Network or

Transmitter

• Smartphone Applications

Digital Medicine

o Health and Fitness Apps Nike Shoe

o Electrical Brain Activity Apps Zeo Sleep

• Monitoring from home, avoid rehospitalization

• Pills and Patches

Digital Medicine (Cont.)

http://www.mddionline.com/article/top-40-medical-device-companies

http://0-stm.sciencemag.org.sally.sandiego.edu/content/2/16/16cm4.full.pdf?sid=72ed0c39-5d57-404b-9edd-b6f7330b35ec

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/05/health/digital-doctor.html?ref=thedigitaldoctor&_r=0#/#time15_373

http://www.mobisante.com/

http://www.mddionline.com/article/how-e-commerce-has-streamlined-cook-medicals-supply-chain

http://www.ipcsit.com/vol16/4-ICICM2011M006.pdf

http://www.vizinexrfid.com/medical-uses-for-rfid-products/

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140121/NEWS/301219971#

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