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

Wed Jul 29 11:24:48 UTC 2015

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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