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Wireless Health Monitoring: State of the Art

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Wireless health monitoring has been an interesting area of research. In this chapter, we present and classify a vast majority of work done related to wireless health monitoring. This includes scenarios and visions, monitoring of vital signs, prototypes for specific conditions, monitoring for preventive care, monitoring for the elderly, and network infrastructure. We also present the evolution of health monitoring, a framework and an implementation of a wireless health monitoring system.

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Varshney, U. (2009). Wireless Health Monitoring: State of the Art. In: Pervasive Healthcare Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0215-3_6

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