Wearable Personalized Medicine Platform
- Detailed Technology Description
- This technology fuses microfluidics, complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology-based integrated wearable sensors, high performance flexible CMOS chips, wireless components and batteries to form a single portable platform.
- *Abstract
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Healthcare today is focused largely on ‘one size fits all’ treatments. Patients with different bodies but similar medical issues can be given identical medications and dosages. KAUST scientists have developed a wearable personalized medicinal platform that has the capability to prepare, vary and mix drugs, vitamins and minerals on demand using integrated wearable health sensors.
Personalization of the medication gives physicians the ability to use the patient’s genetic information to guide selection of certain drugs or treatments for individuals, which can increase the possibility of a more effective and low-cost approach for clinical care.
Instead of ‘one size fits all’ treatment approaches for healthcare issues, the demonstrated system can prepare the drugs, vitamins and minerals instantly and in-situ depending on the needs of a person at any given time.
The developed system has the capability of mixing two or more different drugs with different dosages on demand or with external stimuli through wearable body sensors.
- Country/Region
- USA
