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Prognosis: A Wearable System For Health Monitoring Of People At Risk, Alexandros A. Pantelopoulos
Prognosis: A Wearable System For Health Monitoring Of People At Risk, Alexandros A. Pantelopoulos
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Wearable Health Monitoring Systems (WHMS) have drawn a lot of attention from the research community and the industry during the last decade. The development of such systems has been motivated mainly by increasing healthcare costs and by the fact that the world population is ageing. In addition to that, RandD in WHMS has been propelled by recent technological advances in miniature bio-sensing devices, smart textiles, microelectronics and wireless communications techniques. These portable health systems can comprise various types of small physiological sensors, which enable continuous monitoring of a variety of human vital signs and other physiological parameters such as heart …