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1. BIOELECTRONICS
BIOLOGY MEETS ELECTRONICS
PRESENTED BY : Bashant kr sah
M PHARM (1ST SEMESTER)
NARGUND COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

2. Personalized medicine
• Personalized medicine, also termed precision
medicine, is a medical procedure that
separates patients into different groups—with
medical decisions, practices, interventions
and/or products being tailored to the
individual patient based on their predicted
response or risk of disease

3. What is Bioelectronics? The Boon of
Modern Technology
Health issues have been a primary concern for
humans since the early ages.
As the years rolled by, there have been various
improvements in the field of medicine. The
introduction of various revolutionary techniques,
approaches, and methods have seen great leaps
in the field of medicine.
Less pain in the approach to cure disease and other
effects with better results has led to people
having more faith in modern medical sciences.
Now let us see how bioelectronics plays a vital
role in the field of medicine and other areas.

4. • What is Bioelectronics?
Bioelectronics is the application of the principles
of electronics to biology and medicine.
Hollywood has expanded the horizons with its
imagination, and movies like Star Wars, Star Trek,
iRobot, Minority Report and many other sci-fi
movies have shown us what modern technology
is capable of. The potential of bioelectronics is
also shown in these movies. Artificial limbs, the
various sensors that are attached to the body,
etc. are the applications of bioelectronics.

5. PAINLESS CURE
• There are wide applications for bioelectronics
as known till this day and many more which
are still to be invented to implement painless
cure in medical science...
• Lets give a quick glance at the present
applications of bioelectronics.

6. 1.Pacemakers:Also called artificial pacemakers, have
been a boon to patients by regulating their heart beats.
Initially they weren't monitored electronically but
eventually due to the development in the field of
bioelectronics and biotechnology they work perfectly,
have given life to thousands across the world, and make
complex problems concerned with the heart simple.

7. 2. Artificial Limbs: For people who have lost their limbs in accidents
or some natural cause prosthetics are used. Bioelectronics is used to power
them, control them, modify and manipulate their structure as per the needs.
Thus the affected ones are given a second chance to live thanks to bioelectronics
and its principles.

8. 3. Blood Glucose Meter: Patients with diabetes need to keep their blood
glucose level in check. Various blood glucose meters are available in the market
that help patients to check their blood glucose in their own home instead of the
olden days method of going to some centers and getting the blood glucose level
checked. They give accurate readings with just a couple of drops of blood and
there is virtually no pain in the entire process. Thus the patient can keep check of
his or her blood glucose level and this will keep the patient out of danger.

9. 4. Biosensors:Sensors are attached to the body to
monitor the body temperature and measure stress and
strain in specific parts of the body. Companies like Nike,
Adidas, Puma, etc. use biosensors in combination with
bioelectronics to improve and increase the efficiency of
their products like shoes, sportswear’ etc. Sports coaches
use biosensors to monitor the movements of players and
later correct them accordingly so that they can play a
better game with fewer injuries.

10. CANCER TREATMENT - A
BREAKTHROUGH
Cancer is the most fatal disease in the present world and
which don’t have complete cure if not detected at an early
stage.
If you could identify that unique bioelectric signal early on, you
could spot the tumor before it even starts to grow .
Even further, if you could manipulate that bioelectric signal, you could
stop the cancer altogether.
This would happen by facilitating the flow of ions into and out of the
cells setting off a chain reaction that could alter the course of the
disease.
Reading these bioelectric signals could help identify and treat all kinds
of conditions and possibly even regrow limbs.

11. THIS IS HOW IT GOES...

12. RECENT ADVANCEMENTS
• That's largely where the near term promise for
bioelectronics lies: in medicine. Many devices have
already came to market as wearable sensors that tell
you about your body. Google's recently announced
contact lens that can monitor glucose levels is a perfect
example, as are the many different iterations of LED
tattoos. Some of these devices work in tandem with a
smartphone or a computer, but scientists ultimately
hope they'll be able to operate autonomously, without
wires or perhaps even batteries.
• .

13. • The vision is ambitious. A little over a month ago,
pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline announced a $1
million prize for innovation in the field of
bioelectronics.
• They're looking for some genius scientists to build "a
miniaturized, fully implantable device that can read,
write and block the body's electrical signals to treat
disease." Sounds pretty incredible! This could bring us
closer to a cure for anything from asthma to diabetes
and potentially save millions of lives.
• And thanks to recent research we know it's possible

14. How feasible is Bioelectronics?
Bioelectronics is the future and promises better
prospects in various fields.
Though it still is an infant in the eyes of technology,
a lot has been achieved in a very small span of
time and has shown remarkable results.
So indeed bioelectronics is a career of the future,
and it promises a lot to the general public, too, as
electronics are very economical when they go
into mass production.

15. It includes a wide variety of manufacturing techniques, which are all
based on digitally-controlled depositing of materials (layer-by-layer) to
create freeform geometries.
Therefore, three-dimensional printing processes are commonly
associated with freeform fabrication techniques. For years, these
methods were extensively used in the field of biomanufacturing
(especially for bone and tissue engineering) to produce sophisticated
and tailor-made scaffolds from patient scans.
This paper aims to review the processes that can be used in
pharmaceutics, including the parameters to be controlled.
In practice, it not straightforward for a formulator to be aware of the
various technical advances made in this field, which is gaining more
and more interest.
Thus, a particular aim of this review is to give an overview on the
pragmatic tools, which can be used for designing customized drug
delivery systems using 3D printing.
Three-dimensional printing in pharmaceutics

16. Telepharmacy
• Telepharmacy is the delivery
of pharmaceutical care via telecommunications to patients in locations
where they may not have direct contact with a pharmacist.
• It is an instance of the wider phenomenon of telemedicine, as
implemented in the field of pharmacy.
• Telepharmacy services include drug therapy monitoring, patient
counseling, prior authorization and refill authorization for prescription
drugs, and monitoring of formulary compliance with the aid
of teleconferencing or videoconferencing. Remote dispensing of
medications by automated packaging and labeling systems can also be
thought of as an instance of telepharmacy.
• Telepharmacy services can be delivered at retail pharmacy sites or
through hospitals, nursing homes, or other medical care facilities.
• The term can also refer to the use of videoconferencing in pharmacy for
other purposes, such as providing education, training, and management
services to pharmacists and pharmacy staff remotely.

17. Benefits and drawbacks
• A primary appeal of telepharmacy is its potential to expand access to
pharmacy care in smaller rural communities, some of which cannot
support a full-time pharmacist or cannot easily recruit a pharmacist to
reside in their region. Telepharmacy can potentially give patients in
remote locations access to professional pharmacy care that could not be
received locally, which can lower costs and improve patient safety through
better patient counseling, drug administration monitoring,[2] and
compliance monitoring. Sharing of pharmacists between sites can also
decrease costs in existing facilities, which might no longer need to employ
a full-time pharmacist.
• The potential costs of telepharmacy are broadly the same as those
associated with all forms of telemedicine: potentially decreased human
interaction between medical professionals and patients, an increased risk
of error when medical services are delivered in the absence of a registered
professional,[3] and an increased risk that protected health
information may be compromised through electronic information storage
and transmission

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