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An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status
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From mobile phones to personal wellness dashboards
A Kailas1, Chia-Chin Chong, F Watanabe
1DOCOMO USA Labs, Palo Alto, California, USA. aravindk@ieee.org
IEEE Pulse
|September 30, 2010
Summary
Wellness mobile technology empowers healthcare professionals with real-time patient data and enables continuous user health tracking. This emerging field faces challenges in developing quantifiable wellness measures and compliant monitoring systems for future telemedicine.
Area of Science:
- Health Informatics
- Mobile Health (mHealth)
- Telemedicine
Background:
- Growing interest in proactive wellness products and health applications.
- Mobile technology offers potential for continuous health monitoring.
- Current limitations exist in developing quantifiable wellness measures.
Purpose of the Study:
- To provide an overview of recent developments and trends in wellness mobile technology.
- To highlight challenges in continuous health tracking and monitoring systems.
- To motivate future research in mobile health for telemedicine.
Main Methods:
- Review of recent developments and trends in wellness mobile technology.
- Analysis of challenges in creating quantifiable wellness measures.
- Discussion of compliant-monitoring systems for mobile health.
Main Results:
- Wellness mobiles provide real-time patient data access for healthcare professionals.
- Users can continuously track health and receive lifestyle-altering assistance.
- Significant challenges remain in developing robust monitoring systems.
Conclusions:
- Wellness mobile technology is poised to transform healthcare delivery.
- Further research is needed to overcome challenges in continuous monitoring and system compliance.
- This technology is crucial for the advancement of telemedicine.
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