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Advancements in Healthcare Using Wearable Technology

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Computational Intelligence in Healthcare

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In the era of digitization tracking information on a real-time basis was one of the eminent tasks. Wearable technology involves electronics incorporated into items which can be comfortably worn on a body mainly used to detect, analyze, and transmit contemporaneous information. Wearable technology has applications in many fields such as health and medicine, fitness, education, gaming, finance, music, transportation, etc. Wearable devices have become quite inevitable as technology in the medical electronics field advances. These devices are highly cost-effective and portable making it easy to use. Due to the wearable computing devices, tracking the emergency and rescue team becomes easy thus making the workplace more efficient and safer. Development in this scope is being given importance to improvise and add many wearables on the list. Not only is it readily accessible, but it is also extremely useful when it comes to monitoring a patient from a farther distance. Such devices can be made capable of storing reading values for a certain period of time making the data accessible to the doctors without personalized monitoring. Devices such as smartwatch and glasses enhance the efficiency of researchers, engineers, and technicians at their work by storing important data and information. This chapter provides insight into three aims of wearable technology and also the challenges faced by wearable devices. The first aim discusses broadly about how wearable technology has evolved over the years which also includes how wearable devices are popular in different sectors of the industry particularly the healthcare sector. The second aim of this study is to discuss the applications or recent developments along with the possibilities of future development. The third aim is the integration of the Internet of things with wearable devices for the advancements in healthcare monitoring.

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    Sindhu Rajendran

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Rajendran, S., Chaudhari, S., Giridhar, S. (2021). Advancements in Healthcare Using Wearable Technology. In: Manocha, A.K., Jain, S., Singh, M., Paul, S. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Healthcare. Health Information Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68723-6_5

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