Pervasive Body Sensor Network: An Approach to Monitoring the Post-operative Surgical Patient
BSN '06 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks
Investigating network architectures for body sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE international workshop on Systems and networking support for healthcare and assisted living environments
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Traditional medical services are hospital-centric in which patients obtain the treatments mainly at the clinics or hospitals. Today people are willing to pay more attention to their health situation. More medical services are in need and exceed the potentials of this hospital-centric service model. Using advanced biomedical sensors, the body condition of patients and aging persons can be monitored at home. Through wireless communication, their doctors and families can monitor their body condition in real time remotely and take suitable treatment and clinical care. It is estimates that more than 200 million people in the EU and the US suffer from one or several diseases where mobile health monitoring can become a treatment option. In that case, they don't need to visit the hospital regularly, which saves a lot of time and money. Meanwhile, as continuous monitoring can discover symptoms earlier, it helps preventing the disease from growing severely. Therefore, mobile monitoring and remote healthcare can significantly improve people's life quality, especially for chronic patient and aging people.