An open-source artificial pancreas

Posted Jan 30, 2019 21:42 UTC (Wed) by jani (subscriber, #74547)
In reply to: An open-source artificial pancreas by Cyberax
Parent article: An open-source artificial pancreas

There's one commercial hybrid closed loop device that was certified in the US and Europe only last year. The rate of development is slow as molasses, obviously in part because they are medical devices that need to be certified. The open source projects get away with stating that they're for educational and informational purposes only.

An open-source artificial pancreas

Posted Jan 31, 2019 6:15 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

You mean *that* sort of medical certification?
https://www.google.com/search?q=implant+files+scandal

An open-source artificial pancreas

Posted Jan 31, 2019 6:41 UTC (Thu) by jani (subscriber, #74547) [Link]

I didn't mean to imply the certification guarantees the devices would actually be better. Just that it is one reason slowing down development and deployment. :p