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This e-book provides an overview of lighting technologies used in the medical and healthcare industry and where they are headed over the next five to ten years. It includes emerging lighting sources, such as LEDs, as well as improvements in incumbent systems, ballasts and lighting controls. Key end-use applications, such as operating rooms, patient waiting areas and dental lighting are covered.
This e-book addresses end-use requirements, which lighting technologies are used and why, and how the technology mix will shake out in the future. It details the main players in the market and the role of regulations and standards in influencing technology selection.
Executive summary
Introduction and methodology
- Report scope
- Report objective
- Methodology
- Glossary of terms
The medical lighting industry
- Overview
- Current lighting technologies
- Industry structure
- Drivers
- Government policies, initiatives
- Rebates
- Energy costs
- Lifecycle costs
- Disposal regulations
- Barriers
- Initial cost, payback period
- Consumer perspectives, market acceptance
- FDA approval
- Lighting standards
- Education
- Luminaire design
Medical lighting technologies
- LEDs
- OLEDs
- Daylighting/natural lighting
- UV lighting
- Fluorescent
- Metal halide
- Efficient ballasts
- Lighting controls
- Lighting simulation tools
Medical lighting applications
- Surgical
- Illumination, colour, tissue contrast
- Visual fatigue
- Heat generation
- Dental
- Patient examination rooms
- Patient waiting areas
- Hospitals
- Lighting during day and night
- Lighting for patients and staff
- Lighting for neonatal
- Nursing homes
- Wellness
- Therapeutic
Future trends
- Technologies on the horizon
- Light - medication interactions and synergies
- Use of light to reduce medications, such as sedatives
- Sustainability, reduction in toxicity and energy consumption