Wearable health systems, aimed to provide individualized health management and better
quality of treatment and care, are emerging. It enables low-cost, user-friendly and …

The wearable healthcare in ubiquitous computing age is a new personalized medical
paradigm in the future. It will play a significant role in illness prevention, early diagnosis or …

Wearable healthcare systems are a promising and topical area, which opens up new
potentials in health and fitness. Like any other information and communication technology in …

The interest in wearable health systems (WHS) originates initially from the need to extend
health services out of the hospital and monitor patients over extensive periods of time …

Telemedicine has significantly broaden its scope the last few years. In the 90's, it was mainly
used by healthcare providers, regardless time and location, for second opinion and patient …

The concept of monitoring individuals in the home and community settings was introduced
more than 50 years ago, when Holter monitoring was proposed (in the late 1940s) and later …

A new concept in healthcare, aimed to providing continuous remote monitoring of user vital
signs, is emerging. An innovative system named WEALTHY is presented, were smart …

Nowadays wearable sensors are drawing attention in biomedical field. Main reason for that
is a continuous development in sensor technologies. These developments are in the form of …

Wearable devices are a new form of mobile computer system that provides exclusive and
user personalized services. Wearable devices bring new issues and challenges to computer …

Since our society is rapidly aging, there exists an urgent need to shift from passive medical
care to preventive medicine and health management, to improve individuals' quality of life …