Introduction to the Intelligent Medicine

Published:2010/8/17 22:14:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

An American medicine production enterprise has developed an intelligent medicine, which is able to help the patient to take medicine on time, and form a good habit. The product also can let the doctor acquire the state of patient’s health with no stop. Secrete of the intelligent medicine is to implant a chip into the medicine. The chip is made of the edible material, which can emit the low power signal under the stimulation of gastric juice. The receiver, which is pasted on the patient’s body, will receive the signal and send the message to the cell phone after decoding the signal. The message will display the time for next time to take medicine and some health related data. If the patient forgets to take the medicine, the receiver will send the message to remind him.

Apart from the function to remind the patient, the intelligent chip can send the message to doctor, letting them control the state of their patients, for example, if they take medicine on time or not, what kind of medicaments do they eat. What is more, the chip can send some data, like the heartbeat and temperature. Doctors will know the physical changes caused by the medicine and consider whether to change the dosage or not. Some tests of the device shows that people take the medicine more regular than before in America.

Scientists point out that taking medicine on time can improve the condition of heart, reducing the cost of treatment in hospital. The European Union has conferred the "CE" mark to this chip, which indicates it is fit the hygienic standard. Every medicine is implanted with the chip which will break up soon after the dissolution of the medicine. Scientists hope to develop a "permanent chip" which can be existed in the patient’s body for many years to follow the state of health. Although the "permanent chip" will have large potential in the future market, it is facing some challenges, for example, developers should prevent the chip from breaking down in the attack of immune system and enzyme. The related integrated circuit is SD1526-01.

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