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The 2020 Coronavirus epidemic put tremendous pressure on front-line healthcare personnel around the world. Supply chains were constrained, resources were limited, while demand for medical professionals and supplies increased. To answer the call of duty, technology forged new roads, escorting futuristic goals to the present. In 2020, Lab Pro remained open and stocked to serve customers during dire times and looks forward to the brighter and better world the medical device manufacturing industry created through the COVID storm. Although propelled by a problematic pandemic, the top five medical device trends for 2021 showcase the brilliancy and resiliency of human capabilities.

1. Internet Medical of Things

The Internet Medical of Things (IoMT) is revolutionizing healthcare by connecting medical devices and applications to clinical systems through secure networks. Although LoMT has been expanding in recent years, human acceptance somewhat stymied development. The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic removed barriers and accelerated the connectivity of infrastructure, lessening demands on medical facilities.

According to the Globe Newswire, the IoMT market is expected to witness a 37.1% spike in growth in the year 2021 and is expected to reach US $508.8 billion by the year 2027, with a CAGR of 18.8% from 2020 through 2027.

Virtual medicine and telehealth now allow patients to receive screenings, coronavirus testing, initial diagnosis, consultations, and follow-up testing through Zoom, Facetime, apps, or websites in the comfort of their own homes.

Increased appetite for contactless care is expected to drive expansion in servers, connectivity, and cloud usage, which should boost growth in semiconductor companies in 2021 and beyond. Lab Pro stocks a wide assortment of semiconductor manufacturing gear to address your enterprise’s electronics manufacturing requirements.

2. Wearable Tech

Wearable tech, also a subset of the IoMT, provides innovative solutions for curative dilemmas, from disease prevention and management to monitoring wellbeing. Wearable tech includes noninvasive watches, sensors, and monitors that measure data like vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, or oxygen saturation. Sensors can be attached to clothing, embedded in seats, and perhaps even in digital tattoos. Data can even be transmitted to smartphones so that care practitioners can manage patients pathogen-free in the comfort of their own homes.

Fortune Business Insights projects that the wearable medical devices market will swell to US $139,353.6 million by 2026 at an impressive 24.7% CAGR. These inventions can be especially protective for emergency response systems for home-care service settings. Given that wearables contain microcontrollers, such as Texas Instrument’s bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices, it is important that manufacturers control static discharge. Lab Pro has a plethora of sophisticated ESD-safe tools for your lab.

3. Microelectronic Medical Implants

Microelectronic medical implants include smart devices that are in or on the human body for both home and clinical settings. Cochlear implants, neurostimulators, implantable infusion pumps address specialized applications such as cardiac rhythm management, Parkinson’s disease, neurological disorders, and orthopaedical injuries. Passive, self-powered, and remotely powered wireless implants transmit radiofrequency via active elements such as battery-powered transducers. The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience brain implant "implant interfaces directly with the brain” in hopes of restoring sight to the blind. Lab Pro’s cleanroom supplies are critical for working in ISO 5-8 cleanroom facilities.

4. Robotics

Robotics are well established in medicine, but recent advancements are making waves in a sea of electronic industrialization. Robot-assisted surgery helps doctors perform less invasive treatments in laparoscopy, orthopedic surgery, and neurosurgery. Robotic systems reduce repetitive tasks in pharmacies. Robots can even lift patients out of beds, reducing strain on humans and keeping germs corralled. Robotic-assisted telerehabilitation helps individuals recuperate from amputation, spinal cord injury, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.

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Markets and Markets reports that the medical robotics market will upsurge at 21.5% CAGR to reach US $12.7 billion by 2025.

• Robotic exoskeletons are helping adolescents with acquired brain injuries improve their functional ambulation through gait training.
• Move over Tesla drivers, because the autonomous green Kar-go, by the British startup Academy of Robotics, might need to deliver some medicine from a pharmacy to a care home.
• Da Vinci® robotics, although not a new player in the arena, has finally gotten the attention of big tech. This multi-armed robot is controlled by surgeons but can make more tiny, precise incisions.
• The Xenex robot zaps submicroscopic organism in entire hospital rooms using full-spectrum UV rays. It is automated and portable.
• Animal therapeutic robots are frequently used for elderly patients with dementia.
• The CyberKnife delivers radiation directly to tumors. This non-invasive treatment delivers radiotherapy directly to difficult-to-treat tumors or cancer on the prostate, head, or liver.
• Robotic meal transport like TUG can ferry meals and heavy items in hospitals, improving the health and safety of medical workers and patients.
• 3D printers can print implants, circuit boards, and medicines.

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5. Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has far-reaching capabilities for the medical community. AI was deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating avenues for contact tracing, diagnosis, prognosis, and forecasting. MIT researchers even developed a way to diagnose asymptomatic people over the phone by analyzing their forced coughs.

Artificial intelligence is making waves in the medical industry in 2020 with a market size of US $4.9 billion. GlobeNewswire projects that AI will advance at 9% CAGR for the next six years. The microchip processing unit sector of the market is projected to hold largest share for 2020.

Another arena that AI propels is genomics, a field that provides personalized diagnoses and treatments by DNA-targeted therapies, RNA therapeutics, and allele-specific gene regulation. AI software such as deep learning algorithms and graphics processing units. Lab Pro specializes in servicing the electronics manufacturing sector.

Smart Healthcare Solutions for 2021

2020 was one of the most challenging times in modern society. The Internet Medical of Things, wearable tech, implants, robotics, and artificial intelligence are important medical device trends that, because of the pandemic, quickly became an integral part of everyday care. These areas of applied science are designed to serve everybody. Remote and underdeveloped areas of the world may benefit even more from technology implementation, where they act as resources that are otherwise unavailable. As your company looks forward to the dawn of a new year, make sure that your medical device manufacturing facility has the equipment it needs to meet forthcoming standards and regulations, tools that can be found on the Lab Pro website.

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