Personalised Health Management Systems: The Integration of Innovative Sensing, Textile, Information and Communication - Technologies: Volume 117 Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

The development and advancement of personalized health management systems requires the consideration of advances in sensor technologies and advanced textiles in addition to nano technologies and evolving information and communication technologies. We are now living in an environment where changes in healthcare structures and requests from patients to have an increased participation in their own healthcare are demanding the availability of affordable and readily available personalized health management systems. Recent research has taken us a step closer in providing such solutions, however, efforts are still required to address the issues of integration of new technologies into existing healthcare practices, implications of interoperability of services, analysis of results following large scale clinical evaluations and development of technology which is small, reliable and affordable by its users. This publication shows a synergy between research efforts in three diverse areas; sensor technologies, advanced textiles and nanotechnology and computing. It brings together researchers from academia, industry and clinical healthcare provision and emphasizes the need for multi-disciplinary collaborations in the future developments of personalized health management systems. IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: • Biomedicine • Oncology • Artificial intelligence • Databases and information systems • Maritime engineering • Nanotechnology • Geoengineering • All aspects of physics • E-governance • E-commerce • The knowledge economy • Urban studies • Arms control • Understanding and responding to terrorism • Medical informatics • Computer Sciences Title page......Page 1 Preface......Page 5 Acknowledgments......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Smart Personalised Health Systems: From Gadgets to Better Health......Page 11 Wearable Sensing......Page 17 Wearable Healthcare Systems, New Frontiers of e-Textile......Page 19 Electroactive Fabrics for Distributed, Comfortable and Interactive Systems......Page 27 Point of Care Biomedical Sensors......Page 35 Bioimpedance and p-Health......Page 45 Vital Sign Monitoring for Elderly at Home: Development of a Compound Sensor for Pulse Rate and Motion......Page 53 MyHeart: Fighting Cardio-Vascular Diseases by Preventive Lifestyle and Early Diagnosis......Page 61 Smart Textiles......Page 71 Motion Aware Clothing for the Personal Health Assistant......Page 73 Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles......Page 82 Wearable Sensors? What Is There to Sense?......Page 90 Micro and Nano Technology Enabling Ambient Intelligence for P-Health......Page 99 Standards & Interoperability......Page 109 A Small Step for Science, a Big One for Commerce......Page 111 The Efficacy of Knowledge Management for Personalised Healthcare......Page 114 Interoperability as a Quality Label for Portable & Wearable Health Monitoring Systems......Page 118 Software Process Improvement for the Medical Industry......Page 127 Interoperability - A Key Infrastructure Requirement for Personalised Health Services......Page 135 Community Health 1......Page 145 Homecare Service Perspective in Tuscany: Vision and New User Centred Services......Page 147 A Cataract Decision Support System: Its Requirement Is Increasing......Page 157 Context-Aware Infrastructure for Personalized Healthcare......Page 164 Software and Knowledge Engineering Aspects of Smart Homes Applied to Health......Page 174 End-to-End Signal Processing from the Embedded Body Sensor to the Medical End User Through QoS-Less Public Communication Channels: The U-R-SAFE Experience......Page 182 IT-Based Diagnostic Instrumentation Systems for Personalized Healthcare Services......Page 190 Networking and Data Management for Health Care Monitoring of Mobile Patients......Page 201 Community Health 2......Page 209 Lifestyle Support Through Efficient ECG Acquisition and Analysis......Page 211 Non-Mediated Glucose Biosensing Using Nanostructured TiO2......Page 217 Detection and Removal of Pathogenic Biofilms on Medical Implant Surfaces......Page 223 Development of a Virtual Reality System for the Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb After Stroke......Page 228 Monitoring of Symptoms and Interventions Associated with Multiple Sclerosis......Page 233 Intelligent Analysis of EMG Data for Improving Lifestyle......Page 239 Author Index......Page 245 Shows a synergy between research efforts in three areas: sensor technologies, advanced textiles and nanotechnology and computing. This book brings together researchers from academia, industry and clinical healthcare provision and focuses the need for multi-disciplinary collaborations in the developments of personalised health management systems.