Global healthcare system needs thorough reform

The modern people's life expectancy, but also more and more people are deeply troubled by chronic disease and disability.

Medical institutions began a shortage, medical insurance will continue to rise like a rocket. All of these factors is an urgent call for a better able to meet the medical needs of people in healthcare systems. However, although the diagnosis and treatment tools for performance improvement, but no one is accepted by the community of practical health care system.

Healthcare device input and output, communication protocols and storage mechanisms between lack of standardization is the dilemma of one of the main reasons.

Another reason is the United States food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved medical device inputs used programs get too long.

Influence technology more advanced healthcare equipment and universal as a major obstacle is the lack of a unified medical records system, this system should be able to track patient globally, and makes any medical institutions simply knocked a few keyboard to see the patient's medical history.

Such a system requires a reliable, secure and efficient communication of medical data and data storage, but these should only be medical institutions, medical insurance and patient access.

But in the implementation of such a system, many questions must first be resolved.

One of which is to determine how to pay for the technology-driven health care system, and who pays for it. For example, there is not a system allowing the doctor to the medical insurance (or patient) sent to the remote analysis and treatment of billing.

In addition, this technology is a leading healthcare costs will not be like a bottomless pit? medical institutions will pay or payment by the patient to? or by final from taxpayers the Government funds to cover this also poses? responsibility issues.

Rely on remote data transfer and make troubleshooting will be medical malpractice litigation cases open new doors.

In order to study and address the health care costs soaring way of life, health and demographic trends, in June 2006 to set up a health-care equipment and digital equipment Internet standardization.

The Union's aim is, through medical devices and equipment of universal access to improve and achieve more accurate healthcare management.

"Standardization will make medical electronic technology is more popular.

Currently in medical device data interface, these data exchange and storage areas have many standards, including some proprietary standards. "Intel company chronic disease management Marketing Manager Ray Askew. As health-care equipment and digital equipment Internet standardization Union members, Intel released the Health Guide for testing, this is a medical information monitoring and communication of the PC. It can monitor has a chronic disease of the elderly people, and some important tizheng over the network to the remote medical institutions provide detailed data.

Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to cooperate in the establishment of the ISO/IEEE 11073 personal health equipment working group aims to develop healthcare data transfer and delivery standards.

Health care equipment and digital equipment Internet standardization Union to these standards as a basis for their work.

No doubt, for better healthcare technology.

Common low-cost micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) movement and the image sensor has been widely used, and has made important contributions.

"Using a motion sensor can be better understood to have a joint disease patients make a gait analysis results, and hopefully bring better treatment effect.

"Freescale Semiconductor company industrial solutions marketing Avi Wolfson said.

MEMS technology is not the only solution.

Like Microfluidic MEMS structures that are difficult to rely on high-volume production to realization of low-cost manufacturing. In addition, micro-machining of silicon and not suitable for medical implants best bio-compatible materials. Metrigraphics Division of DRC is dedicated to the electronics prototyping process production precision component of a company.

They produced many symbols were used for retinal implants, medical applications, also for implantable devices and external devices for data and power signal long-distance transmission.

"E-forming process is a price/performance ratio silicon process much more ancient craft.

"Metrigraphics company Vice President and General Manager of Randy Sablich pointed out that" we can be very small size make than silicon micromachining more precise greater structure and the structure better biological compatibility. ”