Abstract: As people around the world became
more and more health conscious the concept of telemedicine underwent
maturation through last decade as numerous applications of wearable
systems in physical medicine and rehabilitation emerged in the recent
past. The currently available commercial products are wearable heart
monitors (wrist bands, watches), patient data recorders (PDAs, Tablet
PCs) and patient identifiers. Most of these applications
are useful in time saving, education and are helpful in administrative
tasks.
They generally record patient data and in some cases raise an alarm.
Depending
on their size they are often portable as well. If industry interests
and
patient & doctor needs & demands are anything to go by the
future
outlook for wearable computing is extremely strong. Notwithstanding the
clinical
trials and proposed theories the market of wearable health is only at
an
early stage. The goal of this paper is to explore some of the research,
development
and regulatory challenges and opportunities (design issues) of m-Health
as
conceptualized and emphasized in the literature reviewed.
Author:Gordana
Culjak