The electrical safety of medical devices has already been the subject of several articles: The article "Insulation Diagrams in Medical Technology" discusses insulation diagrams in general. The article "Electrical Safety in Medical Technology" describes how electrical medical devices are classified and ...
Since the introduction of touchscreen smartphones, the way people interact with machines has changed dramatically. The trend is toward ever-larger touchscreens and the elimination of physical buttons. This is also true in the ...
The 60601-1-2 standard is the EMC standard for the 60601 family of standards, meaning that it applies in principle to all medical electrical equipment. The full name of the standard, DIN EN 60601-1-2:2016, is: "Medical electrical equipment – Part 1-2: General requirements for the ...
10/30/2017
For certification according to IEC EN 60601-1, TÜV will generally require an insulation diagram. However, searching for the term "insulation diagram" in the basic standard 60601-1 yields no results. This article will describe what... ...
07/31/2017
Sometimes things happen whose consequences only become truly apparent years later. Such a thing happened on May 25, 2017. EU Regulation 2017/745 entered into force. The MDR replaces the MDD (93/42/EEC) and the AIMD (90/385/EEC). ...
04/23/2016
Lately, there has been a growing amount of bad news regarding the intrusion of information technology (IT) into hospitals and medical devices. After servers, routers, and cars, an anesthesia machine was also hacked. And hospital staff have ...
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