Wireless health: Challenges and opportunities

Summary form only given, as follows. Wireless Health brings to fruition many opportunities to continuously monitor human body with sensors placed on body or implanted in the body. These platforms will revolutionize many application domains including health care and wellness. They provide new avenues to continuously monitor individuals, whether it is intended to detect an early onset of a disease or to assess the effectiveness of the treatment. In the past few years, the community has observed a large number of wireless health applications that have been developed using wearable computers. Yet, not many have been deployed in a large scale. There are still several challenges that need to be addressed before realizing the ubiquitous use of wireless health systems. In this talk, we will highlight several applications of the wireless health and wearable computers. We will describe components of the wireless health computing systems and will outline challenges associated with their ubiquitous deployment. We will highlight current research efforts toward creating application specific self-powered architecture for Wireless Health and will discuss future directions.