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IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
|July 12, 2018
Summary
Pervasive computing technologies enhance healthcare by enabling continuous health assessments. Wearable sensors, mobile devices, and virtual reality offer new ways to measure functional and cognitive health.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare technology
- Digital health
- Pervasive computing
Background:
- Pervasive computing has transformed healthcare delivery.
- Mobile devices, body area networks, and embedded systems enable continuous, real-world health data collection.
- Geographic and temporal barriers in healthcare are being overcome by technology.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review technological developments for assessing functional performance in healthcare.
- To explore how new technologies can enhance or create novel methods for health assessment.
- To present the uses and challenges of emerging technologies in functional health assessment.
Main Methods:
- Review of recent technological advancements in pervasive computing for healthcare.
- Analysis of enabling technologies including wearable sensors, ambient sensors, mobile technologies, and virtual reality.
- Examination of applications in quantifying real-time functional performance and cognitive health.
Main Results:
- Maturation of pervasive computing technologies significantly impacts healthcare.
- Wearable and ambient sensors, mobile tech, and VR enable real-time quantification of functional performance.
- These technologies facilitate more effective and timely health assessments.
Conclusions:
- Pervasive computing technologies offer powerful tools for functional and cognitive health assessment.
- The integration of these technologies promises to revolutionize health monitoring and assessment.
- Adoption challenges for these advanced healthcare technologies need to be addressed.
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