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Accelerating health care innovation by connecting engineering and medicine

  • Written by Jeffrey W. Holmes, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, University of Virginia
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Artificial heart valves, prosthetic hips, bedside monitors, MRI machines – these and so many other innovations that we now take for granted emerged at the interface of engineering and medicine.

In an era of big data, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence, the...

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