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About one-tenth of the total world population is living with active or passive disability which accounts a lot of money in training and creation of skilled manpower to rehabilitate them. The disability is of the various forms that can be sensory, motor, mixed, or cognitive that makes them inefficient in performing daily task for normal living. This may be acquired or developmental or got before birth or during pregnancy. Older people with chronic conditions are prone to suffer from cognition and memory disorders. In such scenario, it is very difficult to prepare workforce for every individual, but it can be done through the technology-enabled diagnostic, intervention and treatment in combination with the medical professionals. Medical electronics is doing the same thing to provide therapy, assistance, and guidance to the patient and clinicians.
Medical electronics is changing from analog domain to the digital domain with more accuracy and easy handling. Digital advancement is having the potential to change the quality of life of the disabled by providing assistive devices, adaption, and accessible support. Assistive technology is designed to enhance the functional ability of physically disabled community. It is having a wide range of services like IT-enabled support including speech, communication, prosthetics, and rehabilitation. It can be a primary care system for children with developmental delay and autistic population. It opened a way for new technologies like virtual reality and augmented virtual reality that are a new and growing field in today’s world.
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Pandey, V.K., Paul, S. (2019). Overview of Medical Electronics for Physically Disabled. In: Paul, S. (eds) Biomedical Engineering and its Applications in Healthcare. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3705-5_4
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