Medical_technology

Medical technology refers to the diagnostic or therapeutic application of science and technology to improve the management of health conditions. Technologies may encompass any means of identifying the nature of conditions to allow intervention with devices, pharmacological, biological or other methods to increase life span and/or improve the quality of life.

The three largest companies active in this sector are Siemens A.G., GE and Philips.

See also

• Medical technologist
• OneMedPlace
• Biomedical engineering
• Medical devices
• Prosthetics
• X-ray
• Computed tomography
• Magnetic resonance imaging
• Ultrasound
• Electroencephalogram
• Electrocardiogram
• Heart rate monitor
• Holter monitor
• Heart pacemaker
• Defibrillator
• Gamma knife
• COCIR
• Eucomed

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