From computers to ubiquitous computing by 2010: Health care

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1881, 2008, Pages 3805-3811

  Aziz, Omer ^a   Lo, Benny ^b   Pansiot, Julien ^b   Atallah, Louis ^b   Yang, Guang Zhong ^b   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks; Pervasive health care; Wireless

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; COSTS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA TRANSFER; FINANCE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; HYBRID SENSORS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MICROSENSORS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORK; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; CHRONIC DISEASES; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN HEALTH; INTEGRATED MICROSENSORS; ON-BOARD PROCESSING; PERVASIVE HEALTH CARE; SENSOR DESIGNS; WIRELESS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS DATA TRANSFER; WIRELESS SENSORS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERNET; REVIEW; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FORECASTING; INTERNET; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 51849102492     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0126     Document Type: Article

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