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Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An Overview of Design Research Areas

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mHealth Ecosystems and Social Networks in Healthcare

Part of the book series: Annals of Information Systems ((AOIS,volume 20))

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In order to be effective and helping towards improving quality of living of people, design and development of wearable health monitoring systems needs to satisfy a number of medical and non-medical criteria’s while taking in consideration resource limitations and fulfilling ergonomic constraints. This study with the aim to serve as a quick reference for future works, attempts to cover main research areas including requirements, challenges and tradeoffs related to the design of such systems.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Algorithms used to combine multiple signals, which can increase inferences’ accuracy if one sensor data is not sufficient.

  2. 2.

    Taking however in consideration cases like disasters or emergencies, where it could be necessary to compromise somehow the patient’s privacy.

Abbreviations

ECG:

Electrocardiogram

EMR:

Electronic medical record

IEEE:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

MAC:

Media access control

QoS:

Quality of service

WBAN:

Wireless body area network

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  1. CERIST, Centre for Research on Scientific and Technical Information, Algiers, Algeria

    Amine Boulemtafes & Nadjib Badache

  2. University of Béjaïa Mira Abderahman, Béjaïa, Algeria

    Amine Boulemtafes

  3. USTHB, University of Technology and Science Houari BOUMEDIENE, Algiers, Algeria

    Nadjib Badache

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  1. University of Peloponnese, Tripoli, Greece

    Athina A. Lazakidou

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece

    Stelios Zimeras

  3. Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Dimitra Iliopoulou

  4. School of Electrical & Comp. Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Athens, Greece

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Boulemtafes, A., Badache, N. (2016). Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An Overview of Design Research Areas. In: Lazakidou, A., Zimeras, S., Iliopoulou, D., Koutsouris, DD. (eds) mHealth Ecosystems and Social Networks in Healthcare. Annals of Information Systems, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23341-3_2

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