Portable devices, sensors and networks: wireless personalized eHealth services

The 21st century healthcare systems aim at involving citizen and health professionals alike entitling especially the citizens to take over a higher level of responsibility for their own health status. Applied technologies like, e.g., Internet, notebooks, and mobile phones enable patients to actively participate in treatment and rehabilitation. It's not any longer just health cards; it's an ongoing standardized personalization of health services including application of portable devices, sensors and actuators stipulating the personalized health approach while offering chances for practicing high quality wireless personalized shared care. The path from cards to personalized and portable devices tackles aspects like health advisors, RFDI technology, the EHR, chips, and smart objects. It is important to identify criteria and factors determining the application of such personalized devices in a wirelessly operated healthcare and welfare, the paradigm change from cards to secure wireless devices to mobile sensors, and the citizen's acceptance of underlying technologies. The presentations of the workshop jointly organized by EFMI WG "Personal Portable Devices (PPD)" and ISO/IEC JTC 1 "Study Group on Sensor Networks (SGSN)" therefore aim at introducing technical approaches and standardization activities as well as emerging implementations in the addressed domain.