Center for Strategic Health Technologies - Brazil

The Center for Strategic Health Technologies (NUTES) is the result of an agreement between the State University of Paraiba (UEPB), the Studies and Projects Funding Agency (FINEP), binded to the Science and Technologies Ministry (MCT), the Health Ministry (MS) of the Brazilian Federal Government and the Technology Park Foundation of Paraiba state (PaqTcPB).

NUTES is a reference center for the development and assessment of technologies to be applied to the health domain, composed of professors, researchers and students of grad and post grad level from the Computer Science, Engineering and Health areas. It has the first Brazilian lab for certification of software embedded into medical devices, ensuring through procedures that devices, processes, softwares and systems produced by the medical industry can operate according to the goal they were designed.
Installed in an area of 1.000 squared meters in the Biologic and Health Sciences Center (CCBS) at UEPB, located at the Juvêncio Arruda street, Universitary Campus, at Bodocongó in Campina Grande, Brazil, it includes labs for biomedical engineering, electronics, software engineering and certification, rapid prototyping of products, usability and image manipulation.

NUTES also performs activities in the areas of clinical engineering, software development for the internet of medical things, design and images manipulation. NUTES monitors, qualifies and develops medical devices and systems to ensure for the final user the reliability required by medical products, contributing to the continuous improvement of quality of technologies under development in Brazil.

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