From Telemedicine to Ubiquitous M-Health: The Evolution of E-Health Systems

摘要: Publisher Summary M-health is becoming a major technological trend for ambulatory and prolonged physiological monitoring. It has the potential to shift paradigm of health care from reactive proactive, disease management prevention. The widespread use communication information technologies facilitates delivery medical services at distance, which known as telemedicine. New approaches have also forced changes in clinical practices, most notable being introduction electronic records communications technology. This new eHealth. Recent developments sensors, wearable computing, ubiquitous providing clinicians users with tools environments gather data over extended periods time. emerging concept m (mobile)-health represents evolution eHealth systems traditional desktop telemedicine platforms wireless mobile configurations. he main enabling trends m-health include: increased computation capabilities cell phones; generation power-efficient processors controllers; revolutionary microelectromechanical (MEMSs) nano-sensor embedded implanted biomedical sensors frequently used objects homes offices. outlines taxonomy applications introduces ultimate unobtrusive system organization ‘‘anytime, anywhere’’ monitoring—wireless body area networks (WBANs) intelligent sensors. One promising application domains monitoring, within care, WBANs particular are implement m-health.