[Open Design + Hardware] Seeking open hardware projects in medico/health sector

Tue Aug 4 14:57:44 UTC 2015

Thanks everyone for your kind responses. Will respond directly to you all.

If there are any other thoughts out there on the list, please don't hold
back :)

-Christian

On 29 July 2015 at 13:24, Bram Geenen <info at bramgeenen.com> wrote:

> Hi Christian, Gerrit, Matt
> A project that recently has been taking off is the Hackberry
> <https://www.wevolver.com/hiroshi.yamaura/exiii-hackberry/>, a
> myoelectric prosthetic. Released by a startup from Japan, the community is
> now developing iterations for specific user cases. For example one for a
> guy who lost both his hands in a work accident at an oil rig. A surgeon
> from Australia joined to help turn it into a medical grade prosthesis.
> The project is fully open source as far as I'm aware.
>
> I've cc'ed Cameron who is part of the Hackberry community, so please reach
> out to him if you'd like to know more.
>
>
> @Matt, I would be interesting to hear more about your findings about open
> design from a pragmatic point of view!
>
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>
> On 29 July 2015 at 09:06, NIEZEN G. <g.niezen at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> I gave a workshop talk at the Things Conference in 2014 on open source
>> hardware and medical devices. The workshop report and slides are available
>> here:
>> https://chimedblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/medical-devices-and-open-source-hardware-a-workshop-report-from-thingscon-by-gendor/
>>
>> I also started my own open-source hardware syringe pump project,
>> eventually to be used as a medical device but currently targeted at the
>> DIYBio sector: http://www.openpump.org (also on Wevolver at
>> https://www.wevolver.com/gerrit.niezen/openpump---an-open-source-hardware-syringe-pump/
>> )
>>
>> Note that there are a lot of medical/health-related projects that call
>> themselves open source but aren’t, for example I won’t consider the
>> Robohand 3D-printed prosthetics project open source as they only make .stl
>> files available. Very few of the projects mentioned in this 2012 Economist
>> article (http://www.economist.com/node/21556098) are really open source.
>>
>> I’m currently writing a journal article on medical devices and
>> open-source hardware and hope to have it finished in the next couple of
>> weeks.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Gerrit NIezen
>>
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>>
>> Future Interaction Technologies Lab
>> Department of Computer Science
>> College of Science
>> 4th Floor, Faraday Tower
>> Swansea University
>> Singleton Park
>> Swansea
>> SA2 8PP
>>
>> On 29 Jul 2015, at 08:48, Christian Villum <villum at autofunk.dk> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Open Design & Hardware friends,
>>
>> I'm speaking at a seminar in Copenhagen in late August that focuses on
>> medical device hacking and open hardware/user driven innovation in the
>> medico/health-sector. Brief event description further below.
>>
>> I wanted to ping this list to hear if anyone knows of relevant project or
>> cases studies for open hardware in the medicine/hospital/health sectors, or
>> any other relevant input on how open is having an impact in these fields.
>> Like, for instance, the Nightscout/CGM/#WeAreNoWaiting
>> <http://www.healthline.com/health/diabetesmine/innovation/we-are-not-waiting>
>> movement.
>>
>> Event pitch:
>> Users are playing an increasingly more important role in the development
>> of medical devices. Some users even take on the development themselves
>> disrupting innovation and development of medical device solutions. This is
>> a delicate situation, balancing on the razor sharp edge between potential
>> lethal risks and significant progress for the benefit of the users (More on event
>> page <http://share.madebydelta.com/klubber/dna-klubben-augustmoede/>).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
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