About InHealth (www.inhealth.org)
Launched in 2004, InHealth: The Institute for Health Technology Studies is a nonprofit research and educational organization supporting independent analyses of the social and economic effects of diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices.
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About Stanford BioDesign (http://innovation.stanford.edu/bdn/index.jsp)
The BioDesign Program at Stanford is dedicated to training tomorrow's leaders in medical technology using an experiential approach to technology innovation. The focus of the BioDesign Program is to train the next generation of medical technology innovators, taking advantage of the wealth of experience of BioDesign faculty and affiliated industry advisors. BioDesign has established curriculum and teaching methods that provide innovation tools to engineers, physicians and business people, allowing them to create and develop innovative healthcare solutions.
Sidebar: Drug-Device Differences
Significant differences between medical devices and drugs include the following:
-Devices are invented, often with the involvement of physician users; pharmaceuticals are discovered in laboratory-based research processes.
-Devices tend to require significant user interaction, while pharmaceuticals do not.
-Devices are engineering-based physical objects, while drugs are chemistry-based compounds.
-Devices usually cause localized treatment effects, as opposed to the often systemic effects of drugs.
-Devices tend to be more heterogeneous as a group than drugs.
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