title: Implantable medical devices: current status and future developments within the healthy-aims project.
abstract: This paper describes the current situation concerning medical implants and suggests why the number of available devices is so limited. It then goes on to describe how a consortium was established from an EU network focussing specifically on Medical Devices. This consortium was successful in obtaining EU funding for the development of a range of medical implants that will help patients with specific disabilities relating to the nervous system, including deafness, blindness, lack of limb motion and urinary incontinence.
authors.affiliation: European Technology for Business Limited Codicote Innovation Centre, St Albans Road, Codicote, Herts, SG4 8WH.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hodgins
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D019736:Prostheses and Implants