Biomedical Textiles Facilitate a Significant Breakthrough in Healthcare Management, Finds Frost & Sullivan

Biomedical Textiles Facilitate a Significant Breakthrough in Healthcare Management, Finds Frost & Sullivan PR Newswire MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 17, 2012 -- The integration of medical tools with wearable textiles enables remote monitoring of vital signs MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The combination of health monitoring devices with textiles carries the benefits of patient safety with enhanced comfort to users. Wearable textiles provide remote monitoring of vital signs, diagnostic information that improves early detection rates, as well as cost-effective ambulatory care to patients with chronic disorders. This technology is an extremely active area designed to address the needs of the medical and hospital sectors. Research approaches throughout the world are aimed at developing sensing patches for monitoring that are adaptable to different bodily fluids and chronic disease profiles, wherein the textile itself acts as the biosensor. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's (http://www.technicalinsights.frost.com) Biomedical Textiles — Technology Market Penetration and Roadmapping research finds there is rapid growth and adoption of woven biomedical textiles for use in key device components.