BioFlex represents a highly promising interdisciplinary research area that will provide unique opportunities for early detection, diagnosis, and delivery for healthcare applications. Hybrid BioFlex systems integrated with novel materials, sensors and devices resulting in new functionalities will have a profound influence on the future of personalized medicine, telemedicine, and healthcare delivery. BioFlex technologies with electronic circuits and devices on flexible substrates have the potential to meet future challenges by developing novel hybrid flexible in vivo and ex vivo biosystems that will further have the advantage of being biocompatible, resorbable, highly conformable, bendable, portable, light weight and low power consumption. Furthermore, such systems can potentially be scaled-up and manufactured at reduced costs using roll-to-roll and other manufacturing techniques. In addition, technologies that can provide remote monitoring of vital signs, such as blood pressure, heart rate, and blood-oxygen content, among others, can enhance the quality of life for the patient. The significance of such low-cost systems further lies in being potentially disposable and sterile leading to reduced hospital-acquired infections, thereby lowering healthcare costs. It is expected that transformative BioFlex research would have the long-term potential to enhance the quality of patient care, while reducing the total cost of healthcare delivery. This Project is collaborative effort between Harvard-MIT BWH, Purdue and Tufts University which is supported by NSF.
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- Research on Flexbile Wireless Smart Bandage featured on NSF Science. Available here at link.
- Research on Flexbile Wireless Smart Bandage highlighted on BBC. Available here at link.
- Our paper titled "Wireless flexible smart bandage for continuous monitoring of wound oxygenation" won the best paper award at the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference 2014 that was held in Lausanne from Oct 21-26, 2014. Congrats!
- The EFRI team presented " A FLEXIBLE, LASER-DEFINED, PAPER PLATFORM FOR LOCALIZED OXYGEN GENERATION AND DELIVERY" The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems June 2013.