Title :
Wearable Technology in the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Future
Author_Institution :
Dept of PM & R, Harvard Med. Sch., Boston, MA
Abstract :
Wearable systems for continuous monitoring of patient status could positively affect the quality of patient management in rehabilitation hospitals. Wireless systems are particularly attractive in the context of monitoring patients over periods of a few days to a week. Special garments constitute an appealing solution for monitoring patients over periods of weeks to months. Two main categories of applications are relevant to rehabilitation medicine: 1) monitoring patients in the inpatient units and 2) monitoring patients in an outpatient setting
Keywords :
patient monitoring; patient rehabilitation; sensors; continuous patient monitoring; garments; patient management; rehabilitation hospital; wearable technology; wireless systems; Biomedical monitoring; Body sensor networks; Clothing; Hospitals; Patient monitoring; Technology management; USA Councils; Wearable sensors; Wireless sensor networks; ZigBee;
Conference_Titel :
Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop, 2006. IEEE/NLM
Conference_Location :
Bethesda, MD
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0277-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0278-6
DOI :
10.1109/LSSA.2006.250378
