Institute For The Future

India develops expertise in lightweight wearable medical devices

With relatively cheaper labor and electricity, as well as one of the world's largest mobile device markets, India is becoming a place to watch for the development, production, and use of wearable medical devices like the world's smallest wearable cardiac monitor.

Medtronic recently opened a therapy and procedure training center in India, and The Lancet has said that by 2010, 60 percent of the world's heart patients will be in India.