Includes bibliographical references and index.

Open-Source Medical Devices: Concept, Trends, and Challenges Toward Equitable Healthcare Technology -- Towards a Harmonized Methodology for the Development of Safe and Regulation Compliant Open-Source Medical Devices -- Getting Started with an Open-Source Medical Device Project: Systematic Needs Identification Techniques for Bottom-Up Strategies -- Design of Open-Source Medical Devices for Improved Usability and Risk Minimization -- Human Centered Design Principles for Open-Source Medical Devices -- Certification Pathways for Open-Source Medical Devices -- Legislation for Open-Source Medical Devices: Current Scenario, Risks and Possibilities -- Creativity Promotion in Open-Source Projects: Application to Open-Source Medical Devices and Healthcare Technologies -- Methods and Technologies for the Personalized Design of Open-Source Medical Devices -- Open-Source Medical Devices as Tools for Teaching Design, Standards and Regulations of Medical Technologies -- On the Sustainable Growth of the Biomedical Industry Reinvented Through Innovative Open-Source Medical Devices