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40 - Future perspectives in bioelectronics

from Part VIII - Future perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2015

By
Sandro Carrara
Edited by
Sandro Carrara  and
Krzysztof Iniewski
Sandro Carrara
Affiliation:
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sandro Carrara
Affiliation:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Krzysztof Iniewski
Affiliation:
Redlen Technologies Inc., Canada
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Summary

The future of bioelectronics has to follow from present electronics and present health needs. The present state of electronics is mainly based on personal computing (smartphones in our pockets, tablets and laptops in our handbags, navigators in our cars, etc.), while the new needs in health are based on personalization of treatments and therapies. This leads to the new concept of personal devices for health. Both the academic and the industrial world have already started targeting this new frontier, and the literature reflects that. New personal devices to be used directly by patients or on the patient’s body have been proposed recently: for example, sensors that provide artificial excitation to a portion of the patient’s body and acquire information about blood pulses [1], devices that integrate several sensors for measuring patient weight, temperature, blood pressure, and ECG waveforms [2], systems that also include personal storage devices [3], information management systems [4], and systems with a computer on board for receiving, storing, processing, and transmitting information [5].

It seems that the future will present us with wearable and/or implantable devices as commodities in medical technology. Good examples of that are several devices already present in the market, such as brain–machine interfaces [6], wearable monitors for vital signs [7] and/or physical activity [8], and personal glucometers, both hand-held [9] and implanted [10], which may now also be connected to an iPhone [11].

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Handbook of Bioelectronics
Directly Interfacing Electronics and Biological Systems
 , pp. 509 - 512
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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