From data to insights: The rise of intelligent medical devices 

A connected medical device prototype usually enjoys ideal working conditions: a fresh battery, an open enclosure, a cooperative wireless environment, and an engineer standing beside it, providing an extremely sophisticated fault-recovery service. Then someone asks whether it can become smaller, run for a week, survive interference, protect its data, pass verification, and be manufactured repeatedly. That is when a working prototype begins to tell a more complicated story. 

A remote-care dashboard can only be as reliable as the device architecture behind it. This article continues the discussion on intelligent medical devices by looking at the step that comes before algorithms, dashboards, and clinical interpretation: whether the device can preserve confidence in the data it collects.