The development and advancement of personalized health management systems requires the consideration of advances in sensor technologies and advanced textiles in addition to nano technologies and evolving information and communication technologies. We are now living in an environment where changes in healthcare structures and requests from patients to have an increased participation in their own healthcare are demanding the availability of affordable and readily available personalized health management systems. Recent research has taken us a step closer in providing such solutions, however, efforts are still required to address the issues of integration of new technologies into existing healthcare practices, implications of interoperability of services, analysis of results following large scale clinical evaluations and development of technology which is small, reliable and affordable by its users. This publication shows a synergy between research efforts in three diverse areas; sensor technologies, advanced textiles and nanotechnology and computing. It brings together researchers from academia, industry and clinical healthcare provision and emphasizes the need for multi-disciplinary collaborations in the future developments of personalized health management systems.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences
Author(s): P.J. McCullagh, E.T. McAdams C.D. Nugent
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 248
Title page......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Acknowledgments......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Smart Personalised Health Systems: From Gadgets to Better Health......Page 11
Wearable Sensing......Page 17
Wearable Healthcare Systems, New Frontiers of e-Textile......Page 19
Electroactive Fabrics for Distributed, Comfortable and Interactive Systems......Page 27
Point of Care Biomedical Sensors......Page 35
Bioimpedance and p-Health......Page 45
Vital Sign Monitoring for Elderly at Home: Development of a Compound Sensor for Pulse Rate and Motion......Page 53
MyHeart: Fighting Cardio-Vascular Diseases by Preventive Lifestyle and Early Diagnosis......Page 61
Smart Textiles......Page 71
Motion Aware Clothing for the Personal Health Assistant......Page 73
Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles......Page 82
Wearable Sensors? What Is There to Sense?......Page 90
Micro and Nano Technology Enabling Ambient Intelligence for P-Health......Page 99
Standards & Interoperability......Page 109
A Small Step for Science, a Big One for Commerce......Page 111
The Efficacy of Knowledge Management for Personalised Healthcare......Page 114
Interoperability as a Quality Label for Portable & Wearable Health Monitoring Systems......Page 118
Software Process Improvement for the Medical Industry......Page 127
Interoperability - A Key Infrastructure Requirement for Personalised Health Services......Page 135
Community Health 1......Page 145
Homecare Service Perspective in Tuscany: Vision and New User Centred Services......Page 147
A Cataract Decision Support System: Its Requirement Is Increasing......Page 157
Context-Aware Infrastructure for Personalized Healthcare......Page 164
Software and Knowledge Engineering Aspects of Smart Homes Applied to Health......Page 174
End-to-End Signal Processing from the Embedded Body Sensor to the Medical End User Through QoS-Less Public Communication Channels: The U-R-SAFE Experience......Page 182
IT-Based Diagnostic Instrumentation Systems for Personalized Healthcare Services......Page 190
Networking and Data Management for Health Care Monitoring of Mobile Patients......Page 201
Community Health 2......Page 209
Lifestyle Support Through Efficient ECG Acquisition and Analysis......Page 211
Non-Mediated Glucose Biosensing Using Nanostructured TiO2......Page 217
Detection and Removal of Pathogenic Biofilms on Medical Implant Surfaces......Page 223
Development of a Virtual Reality System for the Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb After Stroke......Page 228
Monitoring of Symptoms and Interventions Associated with Multiple Sclerosis......Page 233
Intelligent Analysis of EMG Data for Improving Lifestyle......Page 239
Author Index......Page 245
