Healthy aims: developing new medical implants and diagnostic equipment

Hodgins, D; Bertsch, A; Post, N; Frischholz, M; Volckaerts, B; Spensley, J; Wasikiewicz, JM; Higgins, H; von Stetten, F; Kenney, LPJ

Abstract

Healthy Aims is a €23-million, four-year project, funded under the EU’s Information Society Technology Sixth Framework program to develop intelligent medical implants and diagnostic systems (www.healthyaims.org). The project has 25 partners from 10 countries, including commercial,
clinical, and research groups. This consortium represents a combination of disciplines to design and fabricate new medical devices and components as well as to test them in laboratories and subsequent clinical trials.
The project focuses on medical implants for nerve stimulation and diagnostic equipment based on straingauge
technology.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: Jan 16, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 16, 2009
• Journal: IEEE Pervasive Computing
• Print ISSN: 1536-1268
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 14-21
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2008.8
• Keywords: Biomedical equipment, biosensors, eye, medical diagnostic computing, microprocessor chips, pressure sensors, prosthetics, healthy aims, cochlear implant, functional electrical stimulation, glaucoma sensor, intelligent medical implants, intracranial pressure sensor, medical diagnostic equipment, microprocessor, nerve stimulation, retinal implant, sphineter sensor, strain-gauge technology, MEMS, biological systems, medical implants microelectromechanical devices, nanotechnology, sensors, wireless
• Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arnumber=4431851
• Related Public URLs: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/; http://www.computer.org/portal/site/pervasive/
• Additional Information: Projects : Healthy Aims