Life Saving Embedded Systems

Many of the largest information technology industry leaders today have turned their attention to Wireless Health with wireless services, new personal hardware products, search technologies that focus on health and wellness with data and guidance. The impact on individuals is also unprecedented with individualized, lifetime, health promotion, services that join consumer fitness and entertainment, disease management, and a major advance in geriatric care with individualized guidance and monitoring for individuals in their homes and institutions. Research in wireless health is radically different from research in other areas of Computer Science and Engineering. In this talk we will review key ingredients of a successful research paradigm in Wireless Health. We use Remote Health Monitoring Systems as a case study. Requirements and Objectives of the underling embedded system, along with the corresponding clinical process, will be discussed.