Healthy aims: Developing new medical implants and diagnostic equipment

Jaroslaw Wasikiewicz; Diana Hodgins; Arnaud Bertsch; Nils Post; Manfred Frischholz; Bart Volckaerts; John Spensley; J. M. Wasikiewicz; Henry Higgins; Felix Von Stetten; Laurence Kenney

doi:10.1109/MPRV.2008.8

Healthy aims: Developing new medical implants and diagnostic equipment

Jaroslaw Wasikiewicz, Diana Hodgins, Arnaud Bertsch, Nils Post, Manfred Frischholz, Bart Volckaerts, John Spensley, J. M. Wasikiewicz, Henry Higgins, Felix Von Stetten, Laurence Kenney

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Health Aims, a €23 million, four-year project funded under the EU's Information Society Technology Sixth Framework program, intends to develop intelligent medical implants and diagnostics systems. The project has bring together 25 partners from 10 countries, including commercials, clinical, and research groups. The projects is focused on medical implants for nerve stimulation and diagnostic equipment based on strain-gauge technology. The project has achieved some remarkable results in development of several products such as a retinal implant for restoration of sight, functional electrical stimulation system for restoration of upper-limb movement and bladder and bowel control, a cochlear implant for restoration of hearing. Health Aims has also developed core technologies to stimulate future medical-implant technology. These cover implantable power sources, RF communications suitable for implanting in the human body, and biocompatible encapsulation materials.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-20
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Pervasive Computing
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2008.8
Publication status	Published - Jan 2008

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