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Integra Systems, Inc. received notice this week that the company that we have recently worked with to provide wireless testing received FDA approval on their product. This is one of many companies that we have provided this knowledge sense and overall hands on testing. This standardized process has allowed innovative connectivity products to come the market to improve the overall patient and clinical experience.
Edwards…this truly is a unique company. Edwards Lifesciences’ roots date to 1958, when Miles “Lowell” Edwards set out to build the first artificial heart.
Edwards was a 60-year-old, recently retired engineer holding 63 patents in an array of industries, with an entrepreneurial spirit and a dream of helping patients with heart disease. His fascination with healing the heart was sparked in his teens, when he suffered two bouts of rheumatic fever, which can scar heart valves and eventually cause the heart to fail.
With a background in hydraulics and fuel pump operations, Edwards believed the human heart could be mechanized. He presented the concept to Dr. Albert Starr, a young surgeon at the University of Oregon Medical School, who thought the idea was too complex. Instead, Starr encouraged Edwards to focus first on developing an artificial heart valve, for which there was an immediate need.
After just two years, the first Starr-Edwards mitral valve was designed, developed, tested, and successfully placed in a patient.
From my early days at Siemens, I learned about what a blood pressure transducer was. Then it was how to set up cardiac output thermo dilution at the point of care replacing FICK and Green Dye from the cath-lab then to cardiac care.That was in the 80’s. Edwards is the leader in this, but also the world’s leader in cardiac valves.
TAVR with the SAPIEN 3 valve: Better than surgery for intermediate-risk patients
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with the SAPIEN 3 valve demonstrated 75% lower rates of 30-day all-cause mortality and disabling stroke compared to surgery in intermediate-risk patients.
This is a end to end wired and wireless enterprise networking company that brings the total end game to the network edge. While a lot of attention has been focused on cloud computing, wireless, and IOT, the edge has often been on the back burner. Extreme's Smart OminEdge can provide the intelligence, agility and security to address the network edge.
Extreme has positioned itself as the the under the radar company that has all the components to disrupt the traditional networking space.
From a healthcare perspective, this can drive down risk from a cybersecurity perspective and ensure that wireless and networked enabled devices operate correctly.
Integra Systems, Inc., has previously authored a white paper for Extreme Networks.
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Integra Systems over the decade plus has developed structured test plans and methodologies to validate and verify both wireless medical device connectivity and additionally wireless co-existence. This V&V process has been used by many companies to not only validate the connectivity experience; but also for regulatory submission. Our WLAN network connectivity testing utilizes the world class test environment of IXIA www.ixiacom.com. Co-existence testing is completed using the technology leader in measuring systems for electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields. This calibrated equipment with testing certificates meets all the requirements of ISO 90001 and ISO/IEC 17025 standard. This Selective Radiation Meter combines the analysis of a spectrum analyzer with the ability for the assessment of safety in electromagnetic fields. Unlike an adapted spectrum analyzer, this solution provides operating modes that can be tailored to individual transmission channels and separate services such as analog or digital radio (TV, DVB-TM DAB, cellular radio (GSM, UMTS, LTE or WLAN, WiMax). An advantage of this specialist instrument is the ability to evaluate results according to safety standards. For example ICNIRP limit values curves can be shown for occupational safety and the general public. A variety of isotropic antennas capturing the field strength in three mutually perpendicular directions can be used. These antennas range from 9kHz to 300MHz, 27MHz to 3GHz, 9 kHz to 300MHz, 420 to 6GHz, 27MHz to 3 GHz, 8kHz to 250MHz.
Integra Systems has worked with Nordic Semi on a variety of low power connectivity solutions medical device design and integration projects.These solutions have included both ANT and BTLE. They have quickly become a global leader in the PAN space providing the right solution with tremendous support. Most recently they have included a LTE solution called the nRF91 SiP Series.
It is a low power MCU with Integrated LTE-M and NB-IoT
The nRF9160 is making the latest LTE technology accessible for a wide range of applications and developers. Through the high integration and pre-certification for global operation, it solves the complex wireless design challenges as well as comprehensive set of qualifications needed to utilize cellular technology.
By integrating an application MCU, full LTE modem, RF front end and power management in a 10x16x1.2 mm package, it also offers the most compact solution for cellular IoT (cIoT) on the market.
Targeting asset tracking applications, the nRF91 SiP Series includes a variant with built-in GPS support. It combines location data from the cellular network with GPS satellite trilateration to allow remote monitoring of the device position.
The nRF9160 offers a modern and powerful ARM Cortex M33 processor with on-chip flash and RAM exclusively for application use.
See attached the latest presentation...
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