Semiconductor IC technology is laying the groundwork for portable and affordable medical devices, most of which are currently used for personal use in homes, community clinics, and even travel. The driving forces behind this trend include the aging of the population, longer life expectancy and the need to control rising health care costs. In addition, more and more people are demanding that health care diagnosis and treatment services reach patients faster, stay away from medical centers, and be closer to the family.
Major electronics companies are now eager to take advantage of this attractive market opportunity. According to IMS Reasearch's InMedia, the total delivery of home digital blood glucose meters, sphygmomanometers, weight scales, pulse oximeters and peak exhalation flow meters for medical diagnostics will exceed 1.5 million units by 2013. . InMedia also predicts that the number of health management centers will also increase, and the total number of devices related to telemedicine will exceed 2 million.
Care InnovaTIons, a joint venture between Intel and GE, aims to develop technologies that support healthy, autonomous living in the home and high-end residential communities. The company integrates the assets, expertise and business of GE Healthcare's Family Health Division and Intel Digital Health to address the challenges of an aging population, a growing number of chronic patients, and rising health care costs.
“Our vision is to positively impact millions of consumers by offering innovative products and services that enable new care models,†said Louis Burns, CEO of Care InnovaTIons.
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Many semiconductor ICs can be used to facilitate the design and development of portable home healthcare products, including sensors, MCUs, microprocessors, DSPs, FPGAs, memory chips, and SoC devices.
Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology plays an important role in home healthcare in the form of sensors, microfluidic devices, and microactuators. As for the market size of healthcare microsystem devices, some estimate that it will reach approximately $4.5 billion by 2015, most of which will be used for in vitro diagnostics and home healthcare.
High-sensitivity MEMS accelerometers will undoubtedly be used to more closely 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 drug entry into the body.
SoCs are becoming more powerful and flexible. A programmable SoC (PSoC) from Cypress Semiconductor consists of configurable analog and digital blocks, a CPU subsystem, and programmable routing and interconnects. This PSoC allows designers to plug in pre-defined and tested IPs from the PSoC library, or their own code, to develop medical devices like pulse oximeters (Figure 1).
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