Design considerations for medical electronics and health monitoring product design

You need to have zero error, highly safe and reliable medical electronics systems. In that sense it is tough to design electronics for health monitoring and diagnosis. If not a graduate in medical sciences, you need to have some minimum knowledge on medical sciences. Not only design, manufacturing and selecting materials, components and software; they all need to fulfil a set of requirements. There are global as well as local controls and regulations in designing and manufacturing and use of medical devices. Either it is electronics or mechanical or whatever tech, it need to be in line with regulations. If you look at the product portfolio under medical electronics: You can broadly classify them as patient monitoring and diagnostics, imaging/scanners such as MRI CT and ultrasound, lab test equipment for testing body fluids such as blood and urine, personal home healthcare/monitoring, and fitness equipment. However these days your smart phone and wearables are also turning into personal health monitoring devices which need to be further evolved to match the level of regulation compliance of exclusive medical equipments. So first and foremost, an electronics design engineer need to be himself/ herself updated about regulations governing medical devices, and specifically medical electronics. If you are not updated with this knowledge and des...