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Improving Safety in Medical Devices from Concept to Retirement

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As with many domains the use of software within the healthcare industry is on the rise [1, 2] within the last 20 years.

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    Martin McHugh, Fergal McCaffery, Silvana Togneri MacMahon & Anita Finnegan

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McHugh, M., McCaffery, F., MacMahon, S.T., Finnegan, A. (2013). Improving Safety in Medical Devices from Concept to Retirement. In: Furht, B., Agarwal, A. (eds) Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8495-0_21

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