医疗创新：半导体技术有助于处方合规性验证

半导体

许多人的医疗保健费用由保险（私人或***保险）承担。
这些保险计划需要管理他们的费用，同时为患者提供足够的护理。
医疗保健提供者和保险公司面临的最大挑战之一是没有忠实遵守规定治疗方法的患者。
有时患者甚至会欺骗他们的医生，因为他们希望即使不这样做也能表现出顺从性。
所有这些都可能导致后来的误诊和浪费的治疗，并且通常会出现通常更昂贵的并发症。
（考虑抗生素耐药细菌的新菌株，例如结核病。这些特别是因为患者未按规定完成抗生素疗程。现在，这些菌株造成非常严重的公共卫生风险，这是可以避免的
。）
患者不忠实遵循的最常见的治疗方案之一是按时按照指示服用药物。
如果依从性非常重要，患者将被要求去诊所观察每次需要服用药物时服用药物。
您可以想象这对患者来说有多么不方便，以及保险公司从长远来看他们试图省钱的成本有多高。
半导体技术实现的新解决方案
基于带有嵌入式射频发射器和监测补丁的药丸的新解决方案旨在使管理处方药更容易。
通过这种解决方案，嵌入药丸中的发射器在被胃酸消化时会发出RF信号。
该信号由贴片上拾取，该贴片像患者身上的创可贴一样佩戴。
补丁中的其他电子设备将有关药丸摄入的信息发送到智能手机。
从那里，数据可以上传到数据中心或医生办公室，提供患者按规定服用避孕药的必要证据。
确保广泛采用
药丸内的专用芯片需要非常小，以便它们通过胃肠道而不会给患者带来任何不适。
芯片也需要保证安全摄取。
它们还必须具有非常小的功率，以便它们可以在没有传统电池的情况下工作，同时仍然产生足够强的RF信号以到达贴片。
非常重要的是，设计对患者来说不会有任何不便，因此他们不反对使用它，这可能对广泛采用造成严重障碍。
对于保险公司和医疗保健系统来说，这种新的解决方案更有效，成本更低。
同时，它将改善患者的整体体验和结果。广泛采用这种处方依从性解决方案具有改善公共健康的潜力。
这项新技术还展示了医疗应用的半导体及其带来的好处如何超越PCB和传统电子机器。

以上来自于谷歌翻译

以下为原文

Many people have their health care costs covered by insurance (either private or government insurance). These insurance programs need to manage their expenses while providing adequate care to the patient.  One of the biggest challenges to healthcare providers and insurance companies is patients who do not faithfully observe their prescribed treatments. Sometimes patients will even lie to their doctors because they want to appear compliant even if they are not.  All of this can lead to later misdiagnosis and wasted treatment and often complications that are usually more expensive to treat. (Consider the case of new strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria, like tuberculosis. These exist specifically because patients did not complete their course of antibiotics as prescribed. Now, these strains pose a very serious public health risk, which is something that could have been avoided.)
One of the most common therapeutic prescriptions that patients do not follow faithfully is to take their pills, on schedule and as directed.  In cases where compliance is very important, patients will be asked to go to a clinic to be observed taking their pills each time they need to take one. You can imagine how inconvenient this can be for the patient, and how expensive this can be for the insurance company as they try to save money in the long run.

New Solutions Enabled by Semiconductor Technology
A new solution based on a pill with an embedded RF transmitter and a monitoring patch aims to make it easier to manage prescription medications. With this solution, a transmitter embedded in the pills sends out an RF signal when it is digested by stomach acid.  This signal is picked up by a patch that is worn like a band-aid on the patient. Additional electronics in the patch send the information on pill ingestion to a smartphone. From there, the data can either be uploaded to a datacenter or a doctor’s office, providing the required evidence that the patient took the pill as prescribed.

Ensuring Widespread Adoption
The specialized chips inside the pills need to be extremely small so they pass through the GI tract without any discomfort to the patient. The chips also needed to be guaranteed to be safe to ingest. They also must require very little power so that they can work without a traditional battery, while still producing an RF signal strong enough to reach the  patch. It is incredibly important that the design is not in any way inconvenient to the patients so that they don’t object to using it, which might pose a serious barrier to widespread adoption.
This new solution is more efficient and less expensive for the insurance company and the healthcare system as a whole. At the same time, it will improve overall patient experience and outcomes. Widespread adoption of such a prescription-compliance solution holds the potential to improve public health. The new technology also demonstrates how semiconductors for medical applications and the benefits they bring are proliferating beyond PCBs and traditional electronic machines.

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