Telemedicine

Telemedicine is a developed part that incorporates the use of telecommunication technology for medical diagnosis and patient care when the provider and the client are separated by distance. The field of telemedicine may include pathology, radiology, and patient consultation from the distance. This field has developed very recently and even off-shoring has been made possible to cope the demands of the work. There are many advantages associated with telemedicine, and more of them are geared towards providing comprehensive healthcare to the rural community.

Drug Delivery

This is one of the most sophisticated areas of medical electronics; whereby, an implantable drug-delivery system is developed that can detect chemical signals in the body and release appropriate therapeutic dosage of the drugs. This enables to administer highly effective drugs that can be precisely targeted on certain diseases and minimise the side effects. Nano-technology and biomedical engineer would help to ensure the proper usage of this technique, which will lead to the development of drug-delivery systems that use body cells and molecules.

Imaging techniques

Imaging techniques are one of the oldest applications of electronics and computer science in medical treatment. However, the need of advanced systems and instruments has always propelled the researchers to keep it developing. No wonder that the medical field, without the help of imaging techniques, finds itself like a crippled person unable to walk or make progress ?such is the impact of imaging techniques and equipments on healthcare!

Some of the famous imaging techniques that are used in medical electronics are:

Computed Tomography (CT)

Spiral or Helical CT

Electron Beam CT

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Ultrasound

Nuclear Medicine Imaging

Implantable devices and applications

Implantable devices and application area is still developing to grow to its full potential. It is believed that in the coming two years, implantable devices would be able to treat and cure millions of patients, who are suffering from complications such as Parkinson's disease, sleep apnea, limb paralysis, strokes, epilepsy, and urinary incontinence. Research is also underway to get implantable chips that can be used in brain and thus, making neuroscience more effective to the common diseases like Retinitis Pigmentosa, Macular Degeneration, and Alzheimer ?s disease, etc.

Electronics Instrumentation

Medical electronics has long been supplemented by many electronic instruments that are not diagnostic in their nature, but help in various body functions of the patients ?hearing aids and pacemakers. These instruments have aptly served the needs of many patients at different levels of complications.

Imagination helps the advancement in any field, and medical electronics is one of those fields, which needs it more and more. We can only wait and marvel on the progress of medical electronics, as it develops and helps the humanity!