Medical Device technology
Medical Device technology: users, involvement, trends in Medical Device technology INTRODUCTION Medical device technologies (MDTs) include medical devices and assistive devices [12], which have been defined elsewhere [7;15]. There are a range of, often competing perspectives, concerning MDT such as regulators’ perspectives, manufacturers’ perspectives and users’ perspectives. All these perspectives are important to assess and synthesize, but users’ perspectives are particularly important for the success of a device. Users of MDTs are not homogeneous as they are often implicitly considered to be, but are constituted by different types and groups of people such as healthcare professionals, careers and end users e.g., patients, people...