Medical Device Frontiers: Microelectronic Medical Devices Are Hot
A microelectronic medical implant is defined as any type of medical device that incorporates electronic components and is incorporated inside the body to achieve a physiological response. This industry has come a long way since the first heart pacemakers appeared on the market in the 1970s.
Some products, such as neurostimulators, have evolved directly from the pacemaker. Other devices, such as implantable drug infusion pumps, would have been impossible without the development of increasingly sophisticated sensors-on-a-chip and the miniaturization of mechanical parts and circuitry.