Robin Felder

Medical automation is an emerging field that is bringing the efficiency tools and methods developed by our most successful corporations to the practice of medicine. Presenting a new systems engineering approach to controlling medical processes, this cutting-edge resource shows engineers, researchers, and lab developers how to reduce time, cost, and errors by at least 50 per cent. Readers discover how computers and devices can be used to schedule personnel and services, and help maintain lean and more affordable medical services. The book shows how to automate pharmacy and laboratory services for maximum profit and minimum turnaround time. Moreover, this practical volume helps professionals determine how nanotechnology is evolving to solve difficult medical challenges.

Automation is facilitating incredible breakthroughs in everything from healthcare, pharmacology, and biotechnology to nanotechnology and genomics. Automation developers, scientists, and technicians need an increasingly sophisticated understanding of both the biological sciences and the engineering involved, and this comprehensive resource is the first interdisciplinary work that truly delivers. After a solid grounding in life science and automation engineering essentials, this indispensable resource describes state-of-the-art techniques for the design and development of sensors and actuators, lab-on-a-chip and bio-MEMs platforms, DNA and protein microarray fabrication automation, and drug delivery automation. It then demonstrates how these tools can be successfully integrated in larger-scale scale automation systems in areas like bio-instrumentation, cell and tissue manipulation, and laboratory automation.