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Next Generation of Medical Tools May Be Home-brewed</a></span>
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<div class="details" id="details-72367815"> Posted by <a
href="mailto:soulskill@slashdot.org" rel="nofollow">Soulskill</a>
<time id="fhtime-72367815" datetime="on Tuesday April 28, 2015
@07:00PM">on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @07:00PM</time> <br>
from the <span class="dept-text">turn-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-pacemaker</span>
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<div id="text-72367815" class="p"> An anonymous reader writes: <i>In
the Little Devices Lab at MIT, Jose Gomez-Marquez builds
medical tools using a DIY mindset. He's designing cheap
alternatives to existing hospital equipment to help spread
high-quality medical care around the world. Gomez-Marquez is
at the forefront of a large and often-unrecognized group of
DIY medical tool builders. Together they are <a
href="https://medium.com/backchannel/the-next-generation-of-medical-tools-may-be-home-brewed-830a753a1c58">challenging
the idea that staying healthy requires extraordinarily
expensive, sophisticated equipment</a> built by massive
corporations. Harnessing this inventive energy, he argues,
could improve the health of thousands of people around the
world.</i> </div>
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