This number is amazing. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization (who), the global population over the age of 50 was 650 million in 2006, and it is expected to reach 1.2 billion by 2025. In the United States alone, the proportion of people over the age of 65 in the population is rising, and is expected to continue to rise in the future.

Freedonia Group believes that the market value of household health care equipment has far exceeded US $7 billion, including respiratory therapy, intravenous (IV) injection, dialysis, patient monitoring, wheelchair, assisted walking, medical equipment and safety equipment.

Portable household medical and health care equipment includes blood glucose meter, sphygmomanometer, heart rate monitor, digital thermometer, pulse oxygen saturation meter, asthma meter for treating asthma and other respiratory diseases, fall and movement detection equipment for the elderly and the disabled, digital scale for weight monitoring and management, and equipment for treating sleep apnea. Many home fitness equipment have also increased health measurement and management functions through upgrading.

Driven by the Internet connection, the performance and integration of semiconductor IC have been greatly improved, which promotes the innovation of household medical and health care equipment. Interestingly, the development of these semiconductor ICs has saved thousands of lives and made many people live longer, which further improves the requirements for health care and medical treatment and increases the demand for more medical innovation.

Many IC functions are driving the trend of home health care, especially processors and advanced sensors. For example, DSP has high computing power and can be used to realize a new generation of monitoring products.

Pulse oximeter is one of the devices that recently joined the camp of home health care monitoring, and blood oxygen saturation is the fifth important physical symptom after blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate and body temperature. The oximeter can be used to measure the oxygen content carried by hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is an important part of red blood cells, which is used to output oxygen from the lungs to various tissues of the human body.

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