“We have high confidence in the quality JKI produces. The code they deliver works – they’ve clearly tested it thoroughly. And when JKI makes a promise about a timeline, we know we can trust it.” - Gary Palmer, Staff Electrical Engineer, Proteus Biomedical, Inc.
How cool would it be if your medication system could report your body’s vital signs as well as your dosage history? Gary Palmer and his team at Proteus Biomedical are developing just such a system called Raisin™.
Raisin combines an intelligent pharmaceutical (a pill with a sensor) with a wearablemonitor. Tiny, digestible sensors made from food ingredients and bonded to a patient’s pills, then activated by stomach fluids after the patient swallows the pill. The patient also wears a small bandage-style patch on his or her skin to detect the ultra-low-power, private, digital signal emitted by the sensor.
This system provides extremely useful data for healthcare providers and patients:
- The Raisin patch personal monitor records information such as type of drug, dose, and place of manufacture; captures date and time; and also measures and reports physiologic parameters such as heart rate and activity.
- Healthcare professionals can also derive metrics like sleep patterns and respiration rate from the collected data.
- The patch communicates with the patient’s phone using Bluetooth, and the phone makes the data available to doctors and patients via user-friendly customized displays on mobile phones, tablets and desktop computers.
Read the case study to see how Proteus and JKI created a collection of LabVIEW-based component and system testing tools to manage system verification and production testing for the Proteus Intelligent Medicine system. The result? With this amazing system, doctors and patients can better understand and manage a patient’s health.
Smart pill with tiny digestible sensor
Proteus "smart pills," wearable electronic recorder patch, and phone-based monitor
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