The wide range of different applications demonstrates: Wearables have become an everyday item
Stammel says that wearables are available for cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and asthma and that they make life much easier for patients and provide physicians with a lot more information about their conditions than conventional methods. The session taking place at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM on November 14 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. will focus on wearables to help with chronic illnesses and to support people facing special mobility challenges (e.g. people who have suffered strokes). At the Wearable Technologies Show, Bioservo will demonstrate its training glove for stroke patients.
The glove uses motion sensors and robotic support to amplify the wearer's movement impulses. Wearing the glove regularly will not only improve the perception of touch stimuli but also voluntary motility, e.g. grasping. It is not far from robotic gloves to exoskeletons that promise even greater benefits in mobilization therapy. FreeBionics, for instance, is hoping that its ‘Free Walk’ system will help restore mobility to people suffering from temporary or chronic restrictions to movement.
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The monitoring of vital data is central to helping people who are suffering from chronic and acute illnesses. This is where wearables can deliver optimum solutions for monitoring almost any type of complaint at home or in clinics. The Biovotion start-up, for example, has created an arm cuff that continuously captures medically relevant data and makes it available to the treating physicians through a ‘cloud’ solution. Precisely tailored wearables are also available for specific diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, asthma, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes as are new options for monitoring newborns and pregnant women.
The market for medical wearables is growing rapidly
The scope of application options that MEDICA 2017 will be focusing on and that are to be presented there is also an indication of the continuously growing demand. “The market for wearables is growing rapidly. More than 150 million wearable products were sold across the world last year,” says Stammel. It is a market that will have doubled by 2020. Initial forecasts state that 400 million wearables will be sold in 2020. A good 50% of this figure will be medical wearables. The market for smart patches in particular will probably make up a very high share of the market. Gerd Bueschel, OEM Manager at Covestro, will offer insights during his talk “Soft Embedding of Electronics and Skin Friendly Fixation of Materials & Technology” at the MEDICA CONNECTED HEALTHCARE FORUM on November 14.
