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THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF USING 3D- PRINTING IN LOW-RESOURCE HEALTHCARE SETTINGS
Rismani, Shalaleh; Van der Loos, H.F.Machiel
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Year:
2015
Editor:
Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Monica Bordegoni
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
University of British Columbia, Canada
Section:
Design for Life
Page(s):
495-504
ISBN:
978-1-904670-64-3
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
Fabrication of medical devices using 3D-printing (3DP) technology can reduce the lack of adequate supply of medical devices in low-resource hospitals. Similar to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), 3DP facilities can be established with a low start-up cost and they can leverage the support of existent open-source community. This paper highlights how ICTs implementations have been successful in addressing information management issues in low-resource healthcare setting and from there argues how 3DP can offer similar advantages by providing low-cost medical devices. Three main case studies of 3DP applications are explained in-depth.
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