Powering Home Healthcare Applications Today and Tomorrow
With the increase of an aging population and the rising cost of hospital-based care, advanced technologies are being developed to facilitate remote healthcare monitoring and treatment. Moving healthcare out of the hospital and into the home offers patients, healthcare providers and insurers both convenience and cost savings.
A challenge arises, however, for regulatory authorities (and OEMs) in determining appropriate safety considerations for these technologies. Unlike hospitals, patient’s homes are uncontrolled environments. There are no trained equipment operators, and there is no guarantee of a proper electrical installation.
Accordingly, additional measures must be taken to ensure medical electrical equipment remains safe for use in these uncontrolled environments. To standardize these additional measures, a group of clinicians, engineers, and regulators established the 60601-1-11 collateral requirements for medical electrical equipment and medical electrical systems used in the home healthcare environment.
TT Electronics plc (LON:TTG) is a provider of engineered electronics applications for performance-critical applications. The Company works with customers in the industrial, medical, aerospace and defence, and transportation sectors.