title: Electronics will transform drug delivery devices.
abstract: The drug delivery device sector will be transformed by electronically controlled alternatives that will maximise user safety and medical effectiveness and open the way to the introduction of high-power, next-generation drugs. Current business partnerships will need to change to allow this to happen.
authors.affiliation: Flextronics, Medical Solutions Group, Milan, Italy. paolo.mazzoni@it.flextronics.com
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mazzoni
mesh_terms: D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D036501:Metered Dose Inhalers; D008904:Miniaturization; D018511:Systems Integration; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical