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Molex 2022 17 Drug-Delivery Devices For instance, these converging technologies hold the potential to transform healthcare with digital drug delivery. Molex and its medical device delivery division, Phillips-Medisize, commissioned a survey on digital health and the future of pharma in April 2021, gathering responses from 215 qualified pharmaceutical professionals representing a range of roles and regions. The findings confirm an increasing adoption of digitized drug delivery and uncovered opportunities and challenges involved with this new technology. For example, a third of survey respondents are already marketing digital drug delivery therapy, and 65 percent believe the technology is extremely or very important to their companies' future plans. Respondents were largely in agreement about drug- delivery devices' impact on healthcare, with 92 percent expecting better health outcomes. They felt the therapeutic areas that have the greatest potential for benefiting from these devices include endocrine, respiratory, inflammatory/immune, cardiovascular, and infectious disease. Additionally, these devices make treatment more convenient for patients, which potentially can improve medication compliance and, ultimately, outcomes. In Molex's survey, 69 percent of respondents cited increased patient engagement as one of the factors driving their organizations' interest in drug-delivery solutions. However, to optimize the benefits of remote healthcare, engineers need to design wearables that encourage regular use by addressing durability and reliability requirements while also providing patient comfort. Consumer and Medical Wearables The presence of both consumer and medical wearable health-monitoring devices is common, and their capabilities keep expanding. Wearable health-monitoring devices can measure multiple bio-functions, such as temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels, and more. Despite the differences in the regulatory hurdles they face (or avoid), both medical and consumer wearables have common design challenges inherent in creating a comfortable and easy-to-use device while also being reliable and accurate. " " Thanks to technological developments in wireless data transmission and the miniaturization of components, minimally invasive procedures and remote healthcare are becoming an everyday reality.