Wearable biosignal monitoring system for newborns

In the last decade, the trends in the development and management of national healthcare service are focused telemedicine with the aim of cost reduction. Telemedicine can be useful to reduce cost thanks to early de-hospitalization and diagnosis. These development drivers can be achieved only through the use of new technology oriented to the production of low cost product, which can be integrated with existing system in order to improve monitoring quality and possibility. The application of these technologies on sensible aspects, as newborn monitoring, has to face the main issue of user acceptability. This paper shows the application of a clinical protocol to a wearable system for monitoring the first two hours of life. The results underline the capability of textile electrodes for wearable monitoring and show a great acceptability by both parents and nursing staff.