Webinar Opportunities, challenges and risks of PC COTS in Medical Devices

Captec, in collaboration with Microsoft and Intel, will be delivering an information packed Webinar on the opportunities, challenges and risks of adopting PC based COTS hardware and software technologies in medical and analytical devices for the healthcare sector. COTS offers tremendous cost down, speed to market and innovation opportunities but requires intelligent and careful selection, introduction and management, particularly of the associated risks.

When: Thursday, 25^th February at 09:00 GMT

Where: Register at http://www.microsoftembeddedseminars.com/about.aspx?seminarid=400

Webinar attendees will have the chance to win an HTC Touch 2 Smart Phone!

This information packed webinar will help to understand the issues related to using PC based COTS hardware and software covering:

• Benefits and risks in using COTS based PC component

• Strategies and methods for de-risking component selection for hardware and software

• Strategies and methods for managing hardware and software change control and obsolescence

• Protection against the hostilities of the operating environments

• The strategic importance and consequences of the Operating System choice

• Connectivity, fixed and wireless, to provide data exchange with hospital enterprise infrastructures and associated security issues

• Remote management and maintenance of medical devices to maximise uptime

• Overview of Microsoft’s complete value stack from Embedded Operating System, through servers to remote device management.

Increasing demands on the healthcare sectors worldwide are pushing for greater productivity and automation, which are constantly challenged by tighter budgets.  Consequently, medical devices and analytical instruments are becoming increasingly intelligent and complex in their capabilities, automating manual methods, including accurate data capture. These, coupled with growing trends towards centralised digital patient data, places demands on devices becoming connected to hospital enterprise systems to exchange patient data with.  The PC architecture is increasingly the platform of choice, offering a versatile, cost effective and quick to market solution to more limiting proprietary based computer hardware and operating software design. 

In today's high paced IT marketplace, PC based COTS hardware and software components are driven by consumer applications which are notorious for having short product life cycles, inconsistent reliability in order to meet consumer demand for faster, cheaper, and in forever smaller footprints.  There are therefore many risks and challenges associated with these opportunities.  Understanding these and developing strategies and methods to navigate through these is the core educational objective of this webinar.

Who Should Attend

• Product Managers and Project Managers involved in defining medical and analytical equipment roadmaps.

• Engineering/Innovation Managers responsible for development projects involving the integration of computing platforms into medical equipment.

• Engineers, software developers, specifiers and buyers involved in specifying and selecting computer hardware and software for medical equipment.

• Service managers responsible for servicing and maximising uptime of medical equipment deployed in the field

What will be Learned

• An understanding of the issues, opportunities and risks in leveraging COTS based PC components.

• Strategies and methods on how to intelligently select and manage the technologies.

• Stretagies and methods to de-risk obsolescence and change.

• The value stack offering of a Microsoft based COTS platform selection from OS to Enterprise integration.

Webinar Details:

Event Date: Thursday, 25^th February at 09:00 GMT

Register at: http://www.microsoftembeddedseminars.com/about.aspx?seminarid=400

About the Presenter -

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Max Toti is the Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Captec, a computer technology company based in Fareham, UK and  Kitchener, Canada. 

Max is an electronic engineering graduate from Southampton University.  He has worked for IBM UK’s R&D Laboratories in the design of storage products and for Hewlett Packard with stints in California, Scotland and England.    He founded Captec Ltd in 1985 to leverage the growing popularity of the PC based computing architecture into industrial, engineering and scientific applications.

Amongst his multitude of activities, Max is an active member of the IOD (Institute of Directors) and IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology).  He is a visiting lecturer for UK technology universities on Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Wealth Creation.  He is a Steering committee member of the Electronics KTN and is a member of Southampton University’s Industrial Liaison Committee.  He is a published author on  technical and Management Articles in Technology & Business/Management related topics.  He is involved in community outreach as the Director of a residents association for the elderly & disabled as well as schools outreach as a STEM Ambassador.

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