Smart health monitoring systems: An overview of design and modeling

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Baig, Mirza Mansoor ^a   Gholamhosseini, Hamid ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mobile health monitoring; Remote patient monitoring; Smart health monitoring; Wearable health monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSONNEL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SMART HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TELEMONITORING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; AMBULATORY MONITORING; DEVICES; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; TELEMEDICINE;

CONFIDENTIALITY; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84872105691     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: 1573689X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-012-9898-z     Document Type: Article

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