Profusa, a smart device that is injected into the body and symbiotic with the cells, helps you keep track of your health data

Profusa, a smart device that is injected into the body and symbiotic with the cells, helps you keep track of your health data

Implantable technology has been in existence for more than a decade, and the most common so far is cardiac pacing technology, cochlear implant technology and bionic eyeballs, but these three are aimed at patients, helping them to stabilize the heartbeat. Hearing aid and recovery of vision. Implanted devices for disease prediction are relatively rare. At one event, PingWest learned about Profusa, an implantable health data tracker.

Prousa is a green micro-strip that can be inhaled with a pinhole. It has a built-in micro-sensor that can be injected into the body when you want to monitor your data. Prousa's material is a special polymer for medical devices that can be symbiotic with your cellular tissue without resisting it. The Profusa chip can transmit the data monitored on the body, such as heart rate, respiration, blood oxygen and other parameters, to the matching App in real time to form a continuous record. When these data are transmitted to the cloud in real time, a continuous medical record will be formed to predict diseases such as heart disease, high blood fat, and diabetes.

In addition, you can use the App to let an optical sensor in the chip shine, thus tracking the position of Profusa in your body. For such implanted devices, there is generally an energy decay process. Founder Ben Hwang told me that at this stage Profusa can stay in the body for 6 months, after which it is not necessary to take it out, but to integrate it into the skin tissue.

For demonstration purposes, founder Ben Hwang himself became an experimenter and implanted Profusa into the body. He said that there are a lot of smart devices, such as wristbands and watches, which can detect human health data, but most of them are not very accurate. The best detection needs to be implanted in the body and integrated into the body to record health in real time. data. This not only ensures the accuracy of the data, but also ensures the continuity of the record. Therefore, when the user goes to the hospital to see a doctor, there is no need to carry the medical record, but the continuous data in the cloud can be extracted for the doctor's reference and then judged. .

Prousa was founded in San Francisco, and CEO Ben Hwang is the chairman of qPCR, a former biotechnology company. CSO William McMillan and CPO have been practitioners in the field of biosensing and biomaterials for decades. So far, the company has only accepted $5.3 million in angel investments, in addition to $7 million from NIH and PARPA.

For this kind of equipment between healthy people and patients, the individual feels that this idea is novel, but usually, only the patient will accept the implantation of foreign bodies in his body, just because he hopes to cure the disease. For ordinary people, it may be generally unwilling to accept an exotic product to grow in their own body.

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