- Title
- Introduction to wireless body area network
- Creator
- Yuce, Mehmet Rasit; Khan, Jamil Y.
- Relation
- Wireless Body Area Networks: Technology, Implementation and Applications p. 349-373
- Relation
- https://www.crcpress.com/Wireless-Body-Area-Networks-Technology-Implementation-and-Applications/Yuce-Khan/p/book/9789814316712
- Publisher
- Pan Stanford Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Recent advances in wireless technologies and ICT (information and communication technology) systems are enabling the health care sector to efficiently administer and deliver a range of health care services. Advanced ICT systems will be able to deliver health care services to patients not only in hospitals and medical centers, but also in their homes and workplaces, thus offering cost savings and improving the quality of life of patients. For example, Internet is currently available almost everywhere in different forms, using either cable or wireless networking technologies. With the advancement of mobile and satellite communication technologies along with broadband communication techniques, e-health services can be delivered anywhere at any time. Especially, when wireless devices are integrated with sensors, it is possible to acquire and monitor human signals at any environment at any time. Hence, Internet can be used as a major tool to deliver e-health services to both developing and developed countries. E-health services can take advantages of wireless body area network (WBAN), which can act as an enabling technology. WBAN systems could offer great advancement for a ubiquitous health care, which has the potential to improve many aspects of everyday living leading to improved quality of life of many patients. Telemedicine and e-health services could offer several significant advantages, including speedup of diagnosis, therapeutic care for emergencies, offering specialist services to remote and rural locations, and supporting patients’ mobility and lifestyles.
- Subject
- wireless body area network; wireless technologies; infromation and communication technology; health care services
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340167
- Identifier
- uon:28409
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789814316712
- Language
- eng
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