Biomedical Engineering has been so far focused on developing tools for
diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. We have now extended our research
activities towards development of preventive Health Care technology.
We want to work with the development of intelligent embedded systems for
environmental monitoring such as determining air and water quality.
The tools should have high selectivity properties, good detection limits,
at-site measurement and of low cost so that they can be attractive
for use in the developing countries.
This paper will address issues such as:
a) Appropriate Medical Technology for
Primary Health Centres
b) Medical Technology for use at home
c) Intelligent sensors for air and water
quality monitoring
d) Need for interdisciplinary research
activities to solve energy, environment, health and technology related
problems.