Aplicación de una metodología estructurada para la identificación de oportunidades y financiación en el desarrollo de dispositivos biomédicos

Abstract

The students from the biomedical engineering program acquire knowledge and skills to design and implement devices that improve the people´s quality of life and enhance medical diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless, in order to get to that point, it is required to determine the necessities from the recipient of the invention. For this reason, due to the interest on establishing a partnership with the Vicentina Luisa de Marillac foundation, this document develops a methodology for the opportunity identification, the conformation of the biomedical devices project bank and the financing that allows to develop the design. To achieve that objective, the advantages, disadvantages and the outcomes from the direct application of three identification methodologies on the recipient population (elderly people and attention staff) is studied, from which a guide for defining the projects that can possibly be developed by the biomedical engineering program students is conformed. In addition, as a response to the necessity to have economical financing for the projects they design, three strategies for obtaining funds are documented and an application guide from the financing strategies is selected, which takes into consideration the criteria and interests from the students who participated in the survey formulated for this purpose. Therefore, the first approximation to a community allows to determine the needs and understand the interesting topics that can be worked out during the courses and final projects from the university students. In the specific case it is concluded that the identification and construction of a project bank ensures a continuous work with the communities, the design of devices based on the customer needs and the implementation through financing strategies