Smart wearables for remote health monitoring, from prevention to rehabilitation: current research and development, future challenges. Lymberis, A. In Proceedings of the 4th Annual IEEE Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, pages 272--275, 2003.
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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 consultation. Today it elaborates solutions for remote health monitoring to support prevention, early diagnosis, disease management, treatment and home rehabilitation. Remote health monitoring could lead to a significant reduction of total cost in healthcare by avoiding unnecessary hospitalisations and ensuring that those who need urgent care get it sooner. Latest developments in micro- and nanotechnologies as well as in information processing and wireless communication offer, today, the possibility for smart miniaturisation and non-invasive biomedical measurement as well as for wearable sensing, processing and communication. Although developing specific systems and applications to address specific user needs, the "smart health wearable" research and industrial community faces a number of common critical issues, e.g. biomedical sensors, scenarios of use (linked to the business scenarios), data security and confidentiality, risk analysis, user interface, medical knowledge/decision support, dissemination, user acceptance and awareness, business models and exploitation. Beyond technology, which seems providing proof of concept, real future challenges such as clinical validation and impact assessment of the newly developed smart wearable applications, are ahead. This paper review the current status in research and development of smart wearable health applications, developed especially under the EU research activities and analyse the outstanding issues and future challenges to be achieved in the future.
@InProceedings{Lymberis2003,
  Title                    = {Smart wearables for remote health monitoring, from prevention to rehabilitation: current research and development, future challenges},
  Author                   = {Lymberis, A.},
  Booktitle                = {Proceedings of the 4th Annual IEEE Conference on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine},
  Year                     = {2003},
  Pages                    = {272--275},

  Abstract                 = {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 consultation. Today it elaborates solutions for remote health monitoring to support prevention, early diagnosis, disease management, treatment and home rehabilitation. Remote health monitoring could lead to a significant reduction of total cost in healthcare by avoiding unnecessary hospitalisations and ensuring that those who need urgent care get it sooner. Latest developments in micro- and nanotechnologies as well as in information processing and wireless communication offer, today, the possibility for smart miniaturisation and non-invasive biomedical measurement as well as for wearable sensing, processing and communication. Although developing specific systems and applications to address specific user needs, the "smart health wearable" research and industrial community faces a number of common critical issues, e.g. biomedical sensors, scenarios of use (linked to the business scenarios), data security and confidentiality, risk analysis, user interface, medical knowledge/decision support, dissemination, user acceptance and awareness, business models and exploitation. Beyond technology, which seems providing proof of concept, real future challenges such as clinical validation and impact assessment of the newly developed smart wearable applications, are ahead. This paper review the current status in research and development of smart wearable health applications, developed especially under the EU research activities and analyse the outstanding issues and future challenges to be achieved in the future.},
  Doi                      = {10.1109/ITAB.2003.1222530},
  ISSN                     = { },
  Journal                  = {Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, 2003. 4th International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on},
  Keywords                 = { biomedical sensors; business models; business scenarios; confidentiality; data security; disease management; disease treatment; early diagnosis; healthcare providers; home rehabilitation; industrial community; information processing; medical knowledge/decision support; microtechnologies; nanotechnologies; noninvasive biomedical measurement; patient consultation; prevention; rehabilitation; remote health monitoring; review; risk analysis; second opinion; smart health wearable research; smart miniaturisation; telemedicine; total cost; user acceptance; user interface; wearable health applications; wireless communication; intelligent sensors; patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; radio access networks; remote sensing; telemedicine; user interfaces;},
  Review                   = {- 'continuity of health' is becoming more common. people are asking for health advice, etc
- important for health care giver to have access to all sorts of health data like health record, accounting, logistics, or remote monitoring of vital signs or whatnot, so diagnosis and treatment can go over okay
- Sensors should be...
 - light weight
 - lowre power consumption
 - reasonable price
 - usable by unskilled people
 - embedded processing
 - alarming capability
 - capable of uninterrupted connection with remote medical centre constantly
- goes on to say these things should be included:
 - holds patient data
 - user friendly user interface
 - data storage and backup storage solution
 - telecommunication, link between the wearable and health provider
 - embedded medical decision
 - telemedicine service - should transmit good quality medical data
 - legal and ethical issues considered...user confidentiality protected
 - patient safety
 - standardisation and interoperability
 - validation plan (must be able to field test)
 - risk analysis
 - biomedical sensors},
  Timestamp                = {2010.09.28}
}

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