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High-Confidence Medical Devices: Cyber-Physical Systems for 21st Century Health Care

Published by NCO NITRD | Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, Executive Office of the President | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2009-02-01
The U.S. market for medical devices is the largest in the world. At an estimated $83 billion in 2006, this market represents nearly half the global total and is growing at 6 percent annually ? about double the rate of U.S. GDP. With the advent of microprocessors, miniaturization of electronic circuits, wired and wireless digital networking, and new materials and manufacturing processes, older generations of mechanical and analog electromechanical devices used in patient diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment have largely been replaced by devices and systems based on information technologies across the diverse array of contemporary medical devices...

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