This document summarizes various types of smart medical devices including non-invasive sensors like pulse oximeters and body fat meters, invasive and implantable sensors like continuous glucose monitors, robots used in hospitals, home health devices, and smartphone applications. It also provides market statistics on the size of the medical electronics industry and growth projections.
36. Medical Electronics The Americas region, including the U.S., is the largest consumer and producer of medical semiconductors, due to the concentrations of both high demand for advanced healthcare and high level expertise required to develop and produce sophisticated component designs. Source: Databeans - http://www.databeans.net
Masimo is the market leader; Reflectance Medical is a local startup that measures three absolute values and provides information http://www.contecmed.com/paypal/product1.asp?id=Pulse%20oximeter
Dexcom , who make a continuous glucose monitoring system, and Insulet, who make the OmniPod insulin pump, announced that they will work together to integrate Dexcom's CGM capability into the OmniPod's handheld system controller, the Personal Diabetes Manager. http://www.bernardfarrell.com/blog/labels/insulet.htm
Calypso – wireless tracking devices in the prostrate
Novartis/Proteus pills contain an edible transmission device that, upon ingestion, sends wireless data to a chip worn on a patch or embedded under a patient's skin http://mobihealthnews.com/4513/novartis-proteus-pilot-to-lead-to-exclusive-deal/
Given Imaging http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.batteriesdigest.com/610a0f80.png&imgrefurl=http://www.batteriesdigest.com/gastro.htm&usg=__0oGusUzK2_XBFWgsJBUcQc9t4IY=&h=760&w=672&sz=110&hl=en&start=4&sig2=lB2x6jco3JoADo6CbTCYCg&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=EN-B-T_puLgXdM:&tbnh=142&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgiven%2Bimaging%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=KRaxS9edIIG8lQfckNiQAQ
Smart hospital beds: patient's heart rate, sleep quality, temperature, and a number of other criteria Also computers attached – E.g. Getwellnetwork http://medgadget.com/archives/2008/02/smart_hospital_beds_of_the_future.html http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2008/02/25/daily5.html
Runkeeper is a local company focussed on fitness…the #1 iphone application
The medical electronics market is growing rapidly and with it the healthcare software and applications market will also grow tremendously.
Where is the primary opportunity for all these??? The US. It is the leading market for these devices and services and will continue to be the leader even in 2014.