Abstract
A wearable health care monitoring system is proposed. Constant health monitoring can improve the patient’s quality of life for various health conditions such as diabetes and obesity, the focus being on prevention rather than treatment. To achieve this individuals and patients need to be empowered and educated with the use of proactive mobile computing tools and technologies such as mobile phones, PDAs, Bluetooth and WAP. Integrating these tools provides a transparent way of monitoring, analysing and modelling their metabolic performance and allows patients to become more responsible for the management of their health conditions.
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- Mobile Phone
- United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study
- Data Collection Routine
- Wireless Data Transmission
- Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring
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Mathews, A.G., Butler, D.R., Love, D.J. (2007). Mobile Computing Tools as a Medium to Educate and Empower people with Chronic Conditions. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6268-1_60
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