Semiconductor IC technology is laying a solid foundation for portable and affordable medical equipment, and most of these products are currently aimed at families, community clinics, and even personal use while traveling. The driving forces behind this trend include an aging population, a longer lifespan, and the need to control rising healthcare costs. In addition, more and more people are asking medical care diagnosis and treatment services to reach patients more quickly, to stay away from medical centers and closer to families.
Major electronics companies are currently eager to take advantage of this attractive market opportunity. According to InMedia, a subsidiary of IMS Reasearch, the total number of home digital blood glucose meters, sphygmomanometers, weight scales, pulse oximeters, and peak expiratory flow meters used for medical diagnosis will exceed 1.5 million units by 2013 . InMedia also predicts that the number of health management centers will increase, and the total number of telemedicine-related equipment will exceed 2 million by then.
Care InnovaTIons, a company co-founded by Intel and GE, aims to develop a variety of technologies that can support healthy and autonomous lives in homes and high-end residential communities. The company integrates the assets, expert teams and business of GE Healthcare ’s Family Health Division and Intel ’s Digital Health Division to address the challenges posed by an aging population, the gradual growth of chronic patients, and increasing health care costs.
"Our vision is to positively affect millions of consumers by providing innovative products and services that enable new care models," said Louis Burns, CEO of Care InnovaTIons.
Technology on standby
Many semiconductor ICs can be used to promote the design and development of portable home healthcare products, including sensors, MCUs, microprocessors, DSPs, FPGAs, memory chips, and SoC devices.
Micro-motor system (MEMS) technology plays an important role in home medical care in the form of sensors, microfluidic devices, and micro-actuators. As for the market size of healthcare microsystem devices, some people estimate that they will reach approximately US $ 4.5 billion by 2015, most of which are used for in vitro diagnostics and home healthcare.
The highly sensitive MEMS accelerometer will undoubtedly be used to more closely and accurately monitor and measure the penetration of drugs into the human body, which is only a matter of time. Wireless sensor transceiver manufacturers are currently working closely with drug manufacturers to monitor and measure the entry of drugs into the human body.
SoC is becoming more and more powerful and flexible. Cypress Semiconductor provides a programmable SoC (PSoC) consisting of configurable analog and digital modules, a CPU subsystem, and programmable wiring and interconnections. This PSoC allows designers to insert predefined and tested IP from the PSoC function library, or their own code, to develop medical devices like pulse oximeters (Figure 1).
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