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The application of engineering technologies to healthcare promises a revolution in the way we diagnose, monitor, and treat disease and will empower healthy lives. Innovation in new technologies is delivering systems for e-Health, m-Health, precision and personalised medicine, medical robotics, prosthetics, and medical signal processing.

Take a look below at a selection of healthcare engineering content from across IET knowledge solutions to learn about the latest advancements and innovations in this area.

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Development and validation of early warning score systems for COVID-19 patients

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Development and validation of early warning score systems for COVID-19 patients

A remote healthcare monitoring framework for diabetes prediction using machine learning

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A remote healthcare monitoring framework for diabetes prediction using machine learning

Human-robot interaction for social skill development in children with ASD: A literature review

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Human–robot interaction for social skill development in children with ASD: A literature review

Ensuring data integrity of healthcare information in the era of digital health

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Ensuring data integrity of healthcare information in the era of digital health

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Discover key patterns and trends from Inspec Analytics

Inspec helps researchers stay up to date on the advancements and innovations in healthcare through its wide coverage of Healthcare Technologies related research areas such as: biomedical related uses of radiation, engineering advancements of prosthetics and the latest patient diagnostic methods. Inspec Analytics shows that research relating to these topics has increased substantially since 2013.

Medical and biomedical uses of fields, radiations, and radioactivity; health physics (A8760)

Within the Medical and biomedical uses of fields, radiations, and radioactivity; health physics classification more than 158,200 articles have been published and indexed by Inspec since 2013. This area of research has seen an >45% increase in article output, with over 290,500 citations and 9,900 organisations publishing content in this subject area.

A8760 - Medical and biomedical uses of fields, radiations and radioactivity health physics [PDF, 295KB]

Biophysics, medical physics, and biomedical engineering (A8700)

The Biophysics, medical physics, and biomedical engineering subject classification has seen over 459,000 articles published and indexed between 2013-2020. Article output in this research area has seen a >58% increase during this time with the articles having been cited over 1,000,000 times, an average of 2.38 citations per article. Over 15,000 organisations have published content within the research area during the time span.

A8700 - Biophysics, medical physics and biomedical engineering [PDF, 279KB]

Prosthetics and other practical applications (A8770J)

During 2013-2020, over 24,600 published articles have been indexed by Inspec within the subject classification Prosthetics and other practical applications, the article output during this period increased >69%. The articles within this research area have been cited over 58,600 times, averaging 2.38 citations per article. Over 4,500 organisations have published content within this subject classification during the time span.

A8770J - Prosthetics and other practical applications [PDF, 246KB]

Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation (A8770E)

From 2013-2020, more than 161,800 published articles have been indexed by Inspec within the subject classification Patient diagnostic methods and instrumentation, the article output during this time increased >106%. The articles in the subject area have been cited 264,400 times, with an average of 1.63 citations per article. Over 10,200 organisations have published content within this subject classification.