Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) provides flexible and powerful patient surveillance through wearable devices at anytime and anywhere. This can be achieved by using a Body Sensor Network (BSN), which is deployed on a human body for monitoring the healthcare. The mobile healthcare management with increased feasibility and handiness introduced several noteworthy challenges for the provider, policy...

Rapid developments in wireless technologies have ushered in a new era of medical devices that are improving patient quality-of-life and lowering costs for both healthcare providers and owners. Diagnostic, monitoring, and treatment systems are becoming wearable and implantable, which give them numerous advantages over bulky medical equipment. However, the wireless connectivity and programmabilit...

OBJECTIVES As wearable sensors take the consumer market by storm, and medical device manufacturers move to make their devices wireless and appropriate for ambulatory use, this revolution brings with it some unintended consequences, which we aim to discuss in this paper. METHODS We discuss some important unintended consequences, both beneficial and unwanted, which relate to: modifications of b...

We present a survey of pointing devices for wearable computers, which are body-mounted devices that users can access at any time. Since traditional pointing devices (i.e., mouse, touchpad, and trackpoint) were designed to be used on a steady and flat surface they are inappropriate for wearable computers. Just as the advent of laptops resulted in the development of the touchpad and trackpoint, t...

This paper presents a design of new type of multi-parameter wearable medical devices signal processing platform. The signal processing algorithm has a QRS-wave detection algorithm based on LADT, wavelet transformation and threshold detection with TMS320VC5509 DSP system. The DSP can greatly increase the speed of QRS-wave detection, and the results can be practical used for multi-parameter weara...

Wearable blood processing devices offer an attractive solution to problems inherent in clinic-based, intermittent end-stage renal disease therapies. What is involved in transitioning even a part of the current clinic-based population to ambulatory therapy has not been clearly enumerated. This paper addresses what a first-generation wearable device might accomplish, how issues of safety will nee...