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HealthTech, BodyTech, MedTech, LifestyleTech – what are they?
Kate Armstrong looks at the trends and issues around BodyTech and its subsets.
Hearing, seeing, moving – the miracle of neural prosthetics
Paul England looks at the advances in neural prosthetics.
BodyTech – a new wave of medical devices product liability litigation?
Katie Chandler considers some of the product liability issues around health and lifestyle technology.
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Protecting prosthetics patients and intellectual property
Paul England demonstrates the way BodyTech devices can be regulated and protected. More
Border issues: medical devices, wellbeing and lifestyle apps
Tasmina and Tim look at when lifestyle apps cross into the realm of medical devices.
BodyTech
The spaces between MedTech, HealthTech, LifestyleTech (which we are loosely calling 'BodyTech' – and if we've invented a new vertical, we'll take the credit), are increasingly blurred, both in terms of what the devices do and how they are regulated. The legal issues are, however, very similar and involve the familiar tension between regulation and innovation.