Open Source Medical Devices for Innovation, Education and Global Health: Case Study of Open Source Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Lukas Winter (), Ruben Pellicer-Guridi, Lionel Broche (), Simone A. Winkler (), Henning M. Reimann (), Haopeng Han (), Felix Arndt (), Russ Hodge (), Süleyman Günyar, Manuel Moritz (), Kate Michi Ettinger (), Olivier Fresnoye (), Thoralf Niendorf () and Mehdi Benchoufi
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Lukas Winter: Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt
Ruben Pellicer-Guridi: The University of Queensland
Lionel Broche: University of Aberdeen
Simone A. Winkler: Stanford University
Henning M. Reimann: Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Haopeng Han: Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Felix Arndt: Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR GmbH)
Russ Hodge: Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Süleyman Günyar: Helmut Schmidt University
Manuel Moritz: Helmut Schmidt University
Kate Michi Ettinger: Mural Institute
Olivier Fresnoye: Centre d’Épidémiologie Clinique, Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris
Thoralf Niendorf: Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Mehdi Benchoufi: Epidemium, Cancer Epidemiology Open Science Program

A chapter in Co-Creation, 2019, pp 147-163 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Today’s societies are challenged by the increasing costs of healthcare and global inequality in the availability, accessibility, appropriateness and affordability of medical technologies. There are ways to improve equality and efficiency and decrease costs in this area without fundamentally changing current health systems and business models. Many services and products are experiencing a paradigm shift toward an open source economic model that can be extended to medical technologies in a way that will intrinsically promote sustainable growth and innovations while improving education and global health. This new way of thinking offers an infrastructure by which some sectors of global health can be democratized. Here we present an in-depth discussion of the advantages of open source medical technology for the public and private sectors, then provide a concrete example of the progress of our efforts to develop an open source magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. Based on our calculations such an instrument could potentially result in cost savings of up to $3.3 billion within about 20 years for the German healthcare system alone. On a global scale the implications of an affordable open source MRI would be even more striking. We suggest a series of milestones to be met to a widespread development of open source medical technology with the aim of improving global health in a way that is less restricted by current political and economic borders.

Keywords: open source hardware; open source medical devices; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97788-1_12

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