In this story you will learn

• 数字化如何改变医疗保健
• What potential lays hidden in medical wearables
• What the future holds for wearables and their technologies

可穿戴设备的技术和传感器可实时监测患者和重要的患者数据。它们具有巨大的潜力，但也挑战开发商和制造商。

Fitness trackers or smart watches are worn on the wrist, measuring vital signs of the body, and recording them. The small minicomputers sound an alarm when the heart rate is too high or blood pressure deviates from the norm. But they can do more than just support people during training or in everyday life. The mission of wearable medical devices: To support the treatment of diseases and to improve the quality of life, especially for people with chronic diseases.

These small but complex devices have great potential, explains Thomas Silva, Global Business Development Manager for Medical Wearable Devices at Henkel Adhesive Technologies. Henkel develops flexible adhesive solutions for medical devices that enable digital health care to improve patient care and healing. Henkel is working with the worldwide leading wearables producers and co-shapes the industry. "Medical wearables enable patients to take more responsibility for their own health. Medical professionals use them to gain valuable data for disease prevention, diagnosis and monitoring, which can reduce treatment efforts and thus help lower treatment costs." Many tasks related to health or medical care can already be done digitally. In addition to ordering medication online, using health apps, or booking video consultations, wearables are now expanding the digital health sector.

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数字技术医疗设备将医疗设备转变为智能，连接，可穿戴的设备正在通过远程健康监测和治疗建议来帮助医生和治疗师改善患者护理。汉克尔（Henkel）的专家和化学家了解，医疗应用，产品和设备是独一无二的，需要理想的物料解决方案。例如，在许多人中发现了粘合剂医疗技术或产品, such as syringes, blood filters, catheters, microchips, or medical wearables. What makes Henkel Adhesive Technologies stand out compared to competitors worldwide is that it offers solutions for almost every step in the medical device manufacturing process – from product assembly to skin-compatibility, to 3D printed parts and electronics.

托马斯说：“在过去的几十年中，医疗技术领域的制造商在集会过程中一直面临着新的挑战。”他补充说，新的，更有效的设计和生产医疗设备的方法正在迅速发展，他补充说：“产品的形状越来越复杂，尺寸越来越小，同时对灵活性和功能的需求正在增加。成分在皮肤病学上也必须是安全的。”亨克尔的粘合剂解决方案符合许多标准，使这些系统更加可靠和更安全。

医疗可穿戴设备如何彻底改变疾病诊断和治疗

“We develop the adhesives that are needed to hold the technical components in the wearables together or to attach them to the patient's body," explains Thomas. As an example, the expert for medical wearable device solutions mentionsintelligent medical adhesive plasters, so-called smart patches, which are stuck to the patient's skin. They relieve the nursing staff as they provide information about when it is time to move the patient to avoid bedsores.

近年来，Henkel Adhisive Technologies的专家在印刷电子产品领域取得了重大进步。例如，现在可以将含有导电金属颗粒的涂层打印到各种材料上，包括柔性表面，例如医学粘合剂斑块。正是这样的进步使智能健康补丁也可以远程监测心率或呼吸模式。这增加了患者的舒适度，使他们能够待在家里，同时减少了医生办公室或医院的探访人数。

And the innovations do not stop there. In the future, some medical wearables will be able to deliver the necessary medication via actuators. "Especially in the case of chronic diseases, this can be vital," Thomas emphasizes. For example, if atrial fibrillation, which in many cases is considered a precursor to heart attack or stroke, is detected early. In this case, a depot under the skin could deliver the necessary medication in time.

汉克尔solutions also provide support for digital devices for monitoring the blood glucose of diabetics, which are attached to the skin. Intelligent glucose sensors, so-called CGM systems (Continuous Glucose Monitoring), are already well established. They measure glucose levels and provide a round-the-clock overview of daily blood glucose levels. Currently under development are also special smart watches that can measure blood glucose levels directly on the wrist. But there are also systems for automatic insulin dosing (AID systems). These combine a CGM system with an insulin pump. An algorithm controls the delivery of insulin as needed. At the same time, the key data of the insulin injection are stored and transmitted to apps for diabetes management, for example.

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托马斯解释说，医疗技术使其具有真正的，挽救生命的差异，这使其成为一个非常敏感的领域。“对设备和材料的质量和安全性的需求非常高。例如，根据使用它们的位置，它们也必须是无菌的。”此外，此类产品的制造过程必须遵守《欧洲医疗设备法规》：“法规很严格，所有产品及其成分必须在允许市场允许之前通过大量测试。”对于汉克（Henkel）而言，可持续性的方面也起着重金博宝怎么注册要的作用：“我们正在努力开发和使用更多可再生原材料whenever we can," says Thomas.

托马斯·席尔瓦（Thomas Silva）可以肯定的是：“未来几年将开发更多令人兴奋的医疗技术发明。”患者将获得一定的自决和独立性。另一方面，医生将能够更有效地分析患者的症状，并更快地对治疗做出正确的决定。好吧 - 像儿童或身体或精神残疾的人一样 - 这是一个很大的好处。我们很荣幸能以我们的广泛的胶粘剂组合成为这一旅程的一部分。”托马斯说。