Flexible Electronics in Healthcare 2020-2030: IDTechEx

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & CONCLUSIONS 1.1. Why Might Electronic Products in Healthcare Need to be Flexible? 1.2. Broader Successes When Competing on More Than Cost 1.3. Healthcare Spending is Rising Around the World 1.4. Remote Care of Patients is on the Rise 1.5. The Outlook for Remote Patient Monitoring – a Key Market for Printed Electronics in Healthcare 1.6. Electronic Skin Patches 1.7. E-Textiles 1.8. Electrochemical Test Strips 1.9. Smart Packaging 1.10. Stretchable Electronics: Where is the Money So Far? 1.11. Change in Form Factor Supported by Flexible Sensors 1.12. Market Forecast: Flexible Electronics in Healthcare 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1.1. Report Scope 2.1.2. Why Might Electronic Products in Healthcare Need to be Flexible? 2.1.3. What is Printed, Flexible, Organic Electronics? 2.1.4. Cost Reduction Has Been Commercially Successful 2.1.5. Broader Successes When Competing on More Than Cost 2.1.6. Creating New Markets 2.1.7. Change in Form Factor Supported by Flexible Sensors 2.1.8. Printed and Flexible Electronics Applied to Healthcare Products 2.1.9. Examples of Flexible Electronics in Healthcare 2.2. Trends in Healthcare Supporting Flexible Electronics 2.2.1. Healthcare Spending is Rising Around the World 2.2.2. Mobile Health is Becoming the Norm 2.2.3. Consumer-Driven, Patient Centered Healthcare 2.2.4. Remote Care of Patients is on the Rise 2.2.5. From Connected to Wearable 2.2.6. Skin Patches are Emerging as a Key Form Factor 2.2.7. Medical Adherence is a Billion-Dollar Opportunity 2.2.8. The Outlook for Remote Patient Monitoring – a Key Market for Printed Electronics in Healthcare 3. MARKET FORECASTS 3.1. Methodology and Assumptions 3.2. Market Forecast: Flexible Electronics in Healthcare 3.3. Market Forecast: Flexible Electronics in Skin Patches for Healthcare Applications 3.4. Market Forecast: Flexible Electronics in E-Textiles for Healthcare Applications 3.5. Market Forecast: Flexible Electronics in Other Product Types for Healthcare Applications 4. HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS USING FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS 4.1. Electronic Skin Patches 4.1.1. Definitions and Exclusions 4.1.2. Electronic Skin Patches 4.1.3. The Case for Skin Patches: Improving Device Form Factor 4.1.4. Application Overview 4.1.5. Skin Patches Competing with Established Products 4.1.6. New Market Creation Around Skin Patches 4.1.7. Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring 4.1.8. Economic and Healthcare Costs of Cardiovascular Disease 4.1.9. Cardiovascular Monitoring Via Wearable Devices 4.1.10. Towards Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring 4.1.11. Differentiation Between Ambulatory Cardiac Monitors 4.1.12. Wearable vs Implantable Monitoring 4.1.13. Wearable, Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring: Comparison of Over 35 Players 4.1.14. Printed Electronics in Cardiac Skin Patches 4.1.15. Cardiac Skin Patch Types: Traditional Holter Monitor / Other Wired Options 4.1.16. Cardiac Skin Patch Types: Cordless Patch with Snap Fasteners 4.1.17. Cardiac Skin Patch Types: Flexible Patch with Integrated Electrodes 4.1.18. Conclusions: Cardiac Monitoring Skin Patches 4.1.19. iRhythm: ZIO 4.1.20. Byteflies & Quad Industries 4.1.21. DMS Service 4.1.22. QT Medical 4.1.23. Conclusions: Cardiac Monitoring Skin Patches Market 4.1.24. Inpatient Monitoring 4.1.25. Inpatient Monitoring: The Case for Removing the Wires 4.1.26. Skin Patches for Inpatient Monitoring 4.1.27. Sensium (Surgical Company Group) 4.1.28. VitalConect 4.1.29. Isansys Lifecare 4.1.30. Leaf Healthcare 4.1.31. Moving Outside the Hospital 4.1.32. LifeSignals 4.1.33. MC10 4.1.34. Conclusions & Related Areas 4.1.35. Conclusions – Patient monitoring 4.1.36. Diabetes Management 4.1.37. The Cost of Diabetes 4.1.38. Diabetes Management Process 4.1.39. Diabetes Management Device Roadmap: Glucose Sensors 4.1.40. Skin Patches for Diabetes Management 4.1.41. CGM: Overview of key players 4.1.42. Abbott: FreeStyle Libre 4.1.43. Dexcom 4.1.44. Medtronic 4.1.45. Diabetes Management Device Roadmap: Insulin Delivery 4.1.46. Insulin Pumps: Introduction 4.1.47. Insulin Pumps Currently Available 4.1.48. Insulin Patch Pumps 4.1.49. Today: Hybrid Closed Loop Systems 4.1.50. The Future: Closing the Feedback Loop 4.1.51. Conclusions – Diabetes Management 4.1.52. Temperature 4.1.53. Approaches and Standards for Medical Temperature Sensing 4.1.54. Skin Patches for Temperature Sensing 4.1.55. Skin Patch Temperature Sensing: Use Cases Across 12 Case Studies 4.1.56. VivaLNK 4.1.57. Blue Spark 4.1.58. Life Science Technology 4.1.59. Isansys Lifecare 4.1.60. Conclusions: Temperature Sensing 4.1.61. Motion 4.1.62. Introduction 4.1.63. Applications for Skin Patch Motion Sensors 4.1.64. Case Study – Concussion Detection 4.1.65. X2 Biosystems 4.1.66. US Military Head Trauma Patch / PARC 4.1.67. Triax 4.1.68. Conclusions: Motion sensing 4.2. E-Textiles 4.2.1. Introduction 4.2.2. E-textiles: Where Textiles Meet Electronics 4.2.3. Commercial Progress with E-textile Projects 4.2.4. Types of Revenue 4.2.5. Smart Clothing for Sports Used to be the Major Focus 4.2.6. Medical & Healthcare 4.2.7. Wound Care with E-textiles 4.2.8. Urinary Incontinence 4.2.9. Example: LifeSense Group 4.2.10. Beyond Apparel 4.2.11. Patient Monitoring Using E-textiles 4.2.12. Bedsore / Pressure Ulcer Prevention 4.2.13. Example: Sensing Tex 4.2.14. Side-effect Management for Diabetes 4.2.15. Bonbouton 4.2.16. Measuring Gait 4.2.17. Industry Challenges for E-textiles 4.2.18. Case Study: Biometric Monitoring in Apparel 4.2.19. Integrating HRM into Clothing 4.2.20. Companies with Biometric Monitoring Apparel Products 4.2.21. Sensors Used in Smart Clothing for Biometrics 4.2.22. Example: ChronoLife 4.2.23. Example: Hexoskin 4.2.24. Example: Myant 4.2.25. Example: Xenoma 4.3. Test strips and In-Vitro Diagnostics 4.3.1. Flexible Electronics in In-vitro Diagnostics 4.3.2. Diabetes Management Device Roadmap: Glucose Sensors 4.3.3. Anatomy of a Test Strip 4.3.4. Manufacturing steps of Lifescan Ultra 4.3.5. Profitability in the Test Strip Industry is Falling 4.3.6. Strategy comparison amongst the largest players 4.3.7. Electrochemical test strips: cholesterol detection 4.3.8. Cholesterol electrochemical test strips – Key players 4.3.9. Other electrochemical test strips for CVD 4.3.10. Conclusions: IVD & Test Strips 4.4. Smart Packaging 4.4.1. Introduction: Smart packaging & logistics in healthcare 4.4.2. Sensors in Smart Packaging – What problems are we fixing? 4.4.3. RFID Sensors: main choices 4.4.4. Examples of Battery Assisted Passive (BAP) RFID sensors 4.4.5. Three main markets in the data logger business today 4.4.6. Conclusions: Smart packaging as an application for flexible electronics in healthcare 4.4.7. Case Study: Medication Compliance 4.4.8. The Problem: Medication Non-Compliance – Statistics 4.4.9. The current solution 4.4.10. The printed electronics / RFID solutions 4.4.11. Trial scenarios with smart blister packs 4.4.12. Smart blister packs – not a big success yet 4.4.13. Things are changing & more players enter 5. TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT 5.1.1. Stretchable Electronics: Where is the Money So Far? 5.1.2. Design Trends to Accommodate Stretchable Electronics 5.2. Stretchable Substrates 5.2.1. Characterising a Stretchable Substrate 5.2.2. Substrate Choice for Stretchable Electronics 5.2.3. Key Parameters for Plastic Substrates 5.2.4. Flexible Glass 5.3. Conductive Inks 5.3.1. Conductive Inks 5.3.2. Stretchable Conductive Ink Suppliers Multiply 5.3.3. The Role of Particle Size and Resin in Stretchable Inks 5.3.4. Washability for Stretchable Conductive Inks 5.3.5. Encapsulation Choice for Stretchable Inks 5.3.6. The Role of the Encapsulant in Supressing Resistivity Changes 5.3.7. Graphene-based Stretchable Conductive Inks 5.4. Flexible Circuits 5.4.1. Stretchable or Extremely Flexible Circuit Boards 5.4.2. Examples of Thin and Flexible PCBs in Wearable and Display Applications 5.4.3. Stretchable Meandering Interconnects 5.4.4. Stretchable Printed Circuits Boards 5.4.5. Examples of Circuits on Stretchable PCBs 5.4.6. The Role of Pattern Design in Stretchable Conductive Inks 5.4.7. Stretchable Printed Electronic Circuits/Systems 5.4.8. Circuits Printed with Conductive Inks 5.5. Printed and Flexible Sensors 5.5.1. Sensors: Key Trends 5.5.2. Main Benefits of Flexible and Printed Sensors 5.5.3. Types of Sensors that can be Printed 5.5.4. Sensors: Technology Readiness 5.5.5. Electrodes 5.5.6. Introduction – Measuring biopotential 5.5.7. Technology Overview – The Circuitry for Measuring Biopotential 5.5.8. Textile Electrodes 5.5.9. Technology Overview – Electrode Properties 5.5.10. Temperature Sensors 5.5.11. Printed Temperature Sensors 5.5.12. Printed Thermistors Enable New Designs 5.5.13. Temperature Sensing Technology Options 5.5.14. Biosensors 5.5.15. Anatomy of a test strip: one example 5.5.16. Manufacturing Steps Of Lifescan Ultra 5.5.17. Inks for Biosensors 5.5.18. Force / Pressure Sensors 5.5.19. Technology Overview – Resistive/Piezoresistive Sensing 5.5.20. Force Sensing Resistors 5.5.21. Materials 5.5.22. Printed Piezoresistive Sensor 5.5.23. Technology Overview – Piezoelectric Sensing 5.5.24. Technology Overview – Capacitive Sensing 5.5.25. Others 5.5.26. Moisture Sensors 5.6. E-Textiles 5.6.1. Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles) 5.6.2. Strategies for Creating Textile-integrated Electronics 5.6.3. Challenges When Moving into the E-textiles Space 5.6.4. Materials and Components 5.6.5. Fibres & Yarns 5.6.6. Examples of Traditional Conductive Fibres 5.6.7. Hybrid Yarns can be Conductive, Elastic and Comfortable 5.6.8. Electronic Components Integrated into Yarns 5.6.9. Textiles and Fabrics 5.6.10. Stretchable Electronic Fabrics 5.6.11. Connectors for E-textiles 5.6.12. Textile Cabling 5.6.13. Metal Wiring Integrated into Textiles 5.6.14. Inks and Encapsulation 5.6.15. Novel Approaches to Conductive Textiles: CNT & Graphene 5.6.16. Challenges with Conductive Inks in E-textiles 5.6.17. Conductive Polymers 5.6.18. Carbon Rubbers as Electrodes in Compression Garments 5.6.19. E-textile Material Use Today 5.6.20. Example suppliers for each material type