--- title: Bridging medical realities in the study of technology... description: MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas studies how medical technologies fail underserved communities. Her work spans diabetes care in Belize, pulse oximeter... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bridging-medical-realities-in-the-study-of-technology-and-health-5uj5hrhaf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bridging medical realities in the study of technology and health | daily.dev og:description: MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas studies how medical technologies fail underserved communities. Her work spans diabetes care in Belize, pulse oximeter... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bridging-medical-realities-in-the-study-of-technology-and-health-5uj5hrhaf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5UJ5HRHaF.png og:image:alt: Bridging medical realities in the study of technology and health og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bridging medical realities in the study of technology and health **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas studies how medical technologies fail underserved communities. Her work spans diabetes care in Belize, pulse oximeter racial bias (which she helped bring to light during COVID-19, leading to FDA recommendations), and the chronic health effects of energy extraction in Pennsylvania. She co-teaches a course on the social design of medical devices, leads the 'Sugar Atlas' project mapping diabetes in the Caribbean, and is developing low-cost seismic sensors for communities affected by industrial activity. Her core argument is that patient and community perspectives — not just engineering or clinical ones — must drive medical technology design and policy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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