Taking charge of medical design

The show will see Accutronics demonstrating a wide range of products, including its Entellion range of pre-engineered batteries and chargers. This includes the CC1150, a 54mm mini credit card battery designed for powering portable medical devices short on space, and the much larger Intelligent Power Vault, which is a multi-battery power system designed for larger medical applications.

MD&M West is America’s largest medical technology show, bringing together leading industry innovators and OEMs for three days of professional development and networking. This year’s show will pay specific attention to the topic of early-stage and development strategies, offering insight areas such as legislative barriers.

Accutronics is no stranger to this process. Since its formation in the midst of the global economic recession in 2009, the company has developed to become a first-choice supplier to leading medical device OEMs. In this time, Accutronics has supplied many manufacturers across the globe with reliable battery solutions, both bespoke and pre-engineered, that comply with the criteria of various regulatory bodies.

“The medical sector is under constantly increasing pressure to keep up with service demand,” explained Rob Phillips, Sales and Marketing Director, Accutronics. “It is therefore vital that critical medical devices can be relied on to continually function accurately. Complying with regulatory bodies in the industry ensures reliable device quality. Finding a supplier who can guarantee the components they supply will meet regional regulations greatly reduces the time taken to get a quality product on the market.”

Another key talking point of the exhibit will be the IoT, a development that has recently seen wider adoption from healthcare OEMs. This has been met with some concern about security, due to high numbers of cyber attacks taking place on medical devices.

“The number of attacks perpetrated on medical device networks is alarming and reinforces the ever-present issue of security in healthcare,” Rob Phillips explained. “It’s important that as we embrace IoT and focus on the software and ensure that we do not forget the importance of hardware security. Component counterfeiting, particularly batteries, is a big risk to medical devices and compromises patient safety as much as cyber attack. Accutronics combats this with the use of algorithmic security to further ensure devices perform to optimum capacity at all times.”

Anybody interested in attending MD&M West can register as either an exhibitor or visitor on the event’s website, and can visit booth 470 in hall E to meet the Accutronics team.