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New Disposable, Wireless Biosensors Replacing Bulky
Medical Devices
By Timothy N. Crammer, MBA, PMP, HIT
With the rapid innovation and development of
wireless biosensors, most of the medical
devices, as we know them, will be a thing of
the past. A team of biotechnology engineers
at Clinical Biometrics is currently developing
these sensor technologies in an aim to boost
the speed of diagnosis, personalize healthcare
and better deal with emergencies.
Revolutionizing Point-of-Care
Today, we can only measure health parameters and vital signs at the so-called point-of-care. This
can be a physician’s office, the clinic, the hospital or a clinical laboratory. You have to go there,
wait patiently in front of the doctor’s office, and eventually someone will examine your symptoms
and vital measurements at that specific point in time.
However, with the revolution taking place in portable diagnostics, algorithms and sensors, the act
of measuring health parameters and vital signs becomes more convenient, mobile and
cheaper. Products like ClinPatch™ by Clinical Biometrics, Inc, are revolutionizing point-of-care
with disposable, wireless patches to measure vital signs in real-time, and over time remotely, for
better data provided to our healthcare professionals. Thus, trends are pointing towards actively
using the time someone spends with sports, working, or only performing such basic activities as
eating and sleeping, for measuring vital signs and wellness indicators. The GP or any other doctor
can use this information in case it is needed, and will be provided a view over time, resulting in a
more comprehensive analysis and diagnosis. This results in less stress for recovering patients,
shortening the waiting time for patients, increasing efficiencies for physicians, and making
healthcare generally more effective to include predictive and preventative medicine.
Essentially, the biosensors are made of tiny micro and nano devices smaller than one can imagine,
Nanosensor technology, anodes and microplates that work simultaneously to test multiple samples
in human beings in response to different stimuli as well as changes in the body chemistry.
Using sensors like ClinPatch™, we can accurately detect the presence of specific protein
sequences, temperature changes, heart rhythm and changes, respiration, sleep quality, and blood
sugar and alcohol among others. The results are delivered in real time and can be monitored over
time by the clinical healthcare experts to help track either the healing process or deterioration of
health in an individual.

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The new wireless biosensors have a variety of the benefits over the traditional medical devices that
makes them ideal choices for use in different medical settings than would be done by conventional
medical devices
Portability
The wireless biosensors are small in size and easy to operate. This means that the patients can
carry them with themselves everywhere they are. One does not have to be near a healthcare center
or a physician to examine critical body function when one’s health deteriorates.
Real-time results
In critical conditions, it is important that the paramedics get the real-time data on a variety of body
psychological processes such as respiration, changes in blood pressure and heart rate in order to
stabilize the patient and increases the chances of survival.
Unfortunately, most of the traditional medical devices do not have capabilities of monitoring
different process at the same point. Moreover, most of the medical equipment monitoring critical
process is bulky making it unpractical to use in the emergency conditions.
In additional to real-time monitoring, the biosensors have
the capability to monitor the changes in several body
processes over time and store the information for use in
diagnosis. In such a case, physicians can view the
changes in the body condition from the time the
emergency paramedics reached the location of the patient
to the time that the patient was discharged and returns
home.

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Ability to transfer data to other medical systems,
Let us take a scenario where a patient was involved in an accident and has had a problem with his
heart rate. With the wireless sensors, the data is captured from the time that the device is attached
to the body. The data collected can then be transferred to Emergency Room systems when the
patient arrives at the hospital. This means that the monitoring starts once the BioMed sensors are
attached to the body in the field, rather than waiting until the patient is in a hospital. Most
conditions require monitoring over time for accurate diagnosis. With these devices, there is enough
data to make informed diagnosis when physicians see the patient. This speeds up the treatment
process.
Disposability
The sensors are fabricated with the use of low-cost microelectronics. This makes them affordable
to use per-patient and dispose of after the patient receives proper medical care. They can be part
of the emergency first responders’ kits.
Reduced size
The biosensors are compact having packed all critical tests in one monitoring device. Critical
medical response teams, homecare experts, and general medical community can cut down on large
and bulky medical equipment and still get accurate results. The patients do not need a myriad of
wires attached to their bodies and large equipment to get accurate medical results.
Nanotechnology and Healthcare
Nano biometrics is the future of medical diagnostics. The future looks bright for these technologies
given the ease of adding new sensor kits for specific applications to these devices. As medical
systems move to personalized healthcare, most medical devices will be replaced by small compact
biosensors like the ClinPatch™ product. As the teams at ClinBio complete their innovations, the
future of medical landscape is up for an interesting period where quality and accurate medical
diagnosis will be within the reach of every patient around the world, will dramatically improve the
amount of critical data physicians have at hand, and ease the work physicians must do in diagnosis
and treatment by capturing the entire care cycle, even after the patient returns home and possibly
information leading up to an incident, or identifying illness before it is in the acute stages.