The Supplement will focus on medical electronic technologies, covering development trends and applications centering on semiconductors and sensors. The supplement is targeted at medical electronic products and manufacturers, designer and application engineers, related medical researcher, professors and academia in colleges and universities, and enterprise

Authors from industry and academia with innovative research and developments are invited to submit technical papers for this forthcoming Medical Electronics Supplement. Papers must be between 1000-1500 words in Simplified Chinese and must include author's picture

EEPW is soliciting technical papers by manufacturers of medical electronic devices, with content focused on the designs and applications of medical electronic systems and its various medical components.

Suggested Topics:

• Sensors/MEMS/ NanoTechnology
• RoHS in Medical Electronics
• Design Challenges: Power Management
• Environmental Constraints for Medical Products
• Emerging Technologies for Medical Electronics
• Future Trends and related fields

Part I: Analysis of medical electronics market development and trends Medical Electronics Medical Electronics Market and OEMs
Application Trends
Medical electronics manufacturers Future trends and related fields in medical electronics

Part II: Technical Papers
1. Technological papers by manufacturers of medical electronic devices, with content focused on the designs and application of medical electronic systems and it various medical components (5-6 articles, with a minimum of 1-2 articles related to sensors) Planned invited manufacturers include: semiconductors manufacturers such as TI，Freescale，Intel，ADI，Fairchild，Infineon，ST，NXP, Microsemi, Zarlink, Xilinx Altera, and Actel, and manufacturers of medical sensors and of other components.
2. Technological papers on design and application by the domestic medical devices manufactures and technological articles focusing on designing and actual application of medical electronic products (mainly from representative domestic enterprises)
3. Domestic academic papers on the designing and application of medical electronics

The rapid advancement in Information Technology and the enhancement of health care consciousness have accelerated the market for medical electronics. In 2007, the continuous growth in the scale of medical electronics market saw sales reaching 25.32 billion yuan, an increase by 20.1% (fig.1). 
China is in the vanguard of that growth, thanks in large part to the country's rising standards in recent years for design, test and supply chain management processes.  Fast growth in medical electronics is influencing various demographic trends, including the following:

• Consumer expectations of more popular household medical electronic equipments
• Enhanced portability of complex imaging and monitoring systems
• Further miniaturization of implantable equipment with lower energy consumption
• Functional integration of equipment and applications in wireless and network technology

Fig1: Sales Growth in Chinese Medical Electronics Market (2002-2007)

(Data Source: CCID Jan. 2008) 

Medical electronics will be China's fourth-largest electronics sector, after the three C's (computers, communications and consumer electronics), by 2010. According to market research firm, Databeans, in 2007 showed that the general sale of medical electronics components market came to 2.639 billion Yuan, and the average compound growth rate for the next five years will exceed 12%.  Over the next few years, most demand coming from the medical electronics market will be for precision amplifiers, data converters, analog power and ASIC, specifically due to the increased design requirements for smaller size, lower power consumption, and higher speed.  Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) will introduce technologies such as multi- layer circuit board design, imaging techniques, image processing, and wireless data transfer to the medical field; allowing OEM to improve their products from the technical aspect. The yield of chips may not be very large but its per-unit value will be high, bringing rapid growth to the medical chip market.