The Medicine Of Tomorrow Could Be Edible QR Codes
This is what we mean by technology going wild. QR Codes are exceptionally versatile in terms of usage as they can be used in various applications. In social media world and other platforms, some apps such as WeChat and WhatsApp, uses QR Codes to link your phone to your desktop web client.
And now, the use of QR Codes is moving to another level as some scientists are endeavouring to push QR codes into an area you would think is spectacular – Medicine.
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According to a new study by researchers from University of Copenhagen and colleagues from Abo Akademi University in Finland, they have developed a white eatable material which they have printed a QR code consisting of a drug.
“This technology is promising, because the medical drug can be dosed exactly the way you want it too. This gives an opportunity to tailor the medication according to the patient getting it.â€
The shape of the QR code enables the storage of data in the drug itself where a quick scan can get all the information about the pharmaceutical product.
Digitizing how we take drugs from a hospital using simple QR codes could be huge. Currently, we use the old fashion system of obtaining prescription drugs from the pharmacy that have explicit instructions of how to take it and in some cases, it can be hard to know if the drugs are real or fake.
The researchers hope that in the future, a regular printer will be able to apple the drug in the pattern of a QR code and the edible material would need to be produced in advance.
