title: Design of a pulse oximeter for price sensitive emerging markets.
abstract: While the global market for medical devices is located primarily in developed countries, price sensitive emerging markets comprise an attractive, underserved segment in which products need a unique set of value propositions to be competitive. A pulse oximeter was designed expressly for emerging markets, and a novel feature set was implemented to reduce the cost of ownership and improve the usability of the device. Innovations included the ability of the device to generate its own electricity, a built in sensor which cuts down on operating costs, and a graphical, symbolic user interface. These features yield an average reduction of over 75% in the device cost of ownership versus comparable pulse oximeters already on the market.
authors.affiliation: Economedics, Inc., USA. info@economedics.com
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nielson
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Mahadevan
mesh_terms: D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D040541:Marketing / Q000191:economics; D008904:Miniaturization; D010092:Oximetry / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014159:Transducers; D014481:United States