Medical Devices - A Computer Science Presentation

More in depth

Medical Devices have been around for a long time and have equally grown throughout that time. When handling with some devices specially with humans, companies and people need to usually analyse the risk of a device. This is why countries categorise devices to reduce risk of misuse and because of their design complexity. The The risk is normallly asociated with a score and is calculated by the potential impact it can have to the likelihood that impact could occur. The graphic on the right demonstrates the risk level rating systems that are similar worldwide.

Some interesting facts

Like mentioned Before, the Medical Device Industy is reallly big and the more known companies are really rich due to this.

In 2013 The medical device market reached $250 billion.
Companies like Johnson and Johnson (company that provides low risk and basic medical devices) made 26.6b USD revenu on medical devices alone.