A PRACTICAL SURVEY ON HEALTH MONITORING DEVICES AND THEIR IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE
A PRACTICAL SURVEY ON HEALTH MONITORING DEVICES AND THEIR IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE
Author(s): Alin Moldoveanu, Cristian Taslitchi, Ionuţ NegoiSubject(s): Education, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: health monitoring devices; pervasive computing; wearable sensors; wireless networks; quality lifestyle; education;
Summary/Abstract: As a follow-up of the current escalated technology, especially in the fields related to advanced sensors and pervasive computing, significant changes have been brought in medical diagnostics and health surveillance equipment, including arrangements for prevention, self-care monitoring of various chronic conditions, as well as high performance hospital monitoring systems. This paper provides a detailed definition of a healthcare monitoring device and offers a multiperspective classification of them. Some important examples (such as clothing-embedded sensors, mobile/smart devices, microprocessor-based monitoring systems, implantable sensors), and their exact fields of usage (e.g. blood pressure and heart rate monitoring, pulmonary arterial hypertension detection, diabetes management, movement impairments and so on) are also given, as well as a brief note on the exploited technologies (for instance wireless networks and sensors, microelectronics, bio sensing technologies) in order to set the trends and offer a better understanding of the capabilities of health monitoring devices.
Journal: Conference proceedings of »eLearning and Software for Education« (eLSE)
- Issue Year: 12/2016
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 342-349
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English