Arthur Hanson
Well-known member
This is just the very beginning of ultra low cost medical equipment where you have a lab on a chip. These will soon be coming out for a number of diagnostic tests. We will see these use different bodily fluids, our breath and be placed on our skin in various areas for a wider and wider variety of tests. Combined with more active chips tied into a smart phone tied into the cloud, much of medical diagnostics will not only be taken out of medical facilities but fully automated. Cloud based knowledge sets are already proving more accurate than even the best doctors. This is but one way the semi/mems/sensor world is going to radically bring down the cost of medical, while increasing quality like it has already done in many fields it has touched. Soon, the march to automating many actual medical procedures will start as with other fields when automation takes over like it has in agriculture dropping the number of people required by over 90%.
1-cent "lab on a chip" could save lives
1-cent "lab on a chip" could save lives