From A to Z: Wearables in Modern Medicine

From A to Z: Wearables in Modern Medicine is written by leading engineering and clinical experts. This book provides you with a pragmatic A to Z guide on the design, deployment and use of wearable technologies for laboratory and remote patient assessment. This is the first book to show how and why engineering theory is used to solve real-world clinical applications, considering the knowledge and lessons gathered during many international projects. This title aligns the shared interests of diverse professions to meet with a common goal of translating engineering theory to modern clinical practice. It offers multidisciplinary experiences to guide engineers where no clinically advice and expertise may be available. This affords engineers and computer scientists a chance to broaden their work to solve clinical problems in modern medicine. Entering the domain of wearables in healthcare is notoriously difficult, projects and ideas often fail to deliver due to the lack of clinical understanding, i.e. what do healthcare professionals and patients really need? This book provides engineers and computer scientists with the clinical guidance to ensure their novel work successfully translates to inform real-world clinical diagnosis, treatment and management. This reference offers:Lessons from large international, multidisciplinary projects Advice and experiences from clinicians (healthcare professionals) who have worked with engineers on large projects Pseudocode and work slow diagrams to help convey the journey of engineering theory to real-world application.

• The first A to Z guide for wearable technologies presented in a multidisciplinary and translational manner
• Helps engineers design real-world applications, better understanding theory to drive pragmatic clinical solutions
• Combines the expertise of engineers and clinicians in one go-to guide, accessible to all

Academic and industrial engineers/researchers/students from multi-disciplinary fields such as biomedical, electrical, computer and mechanical engineering

1. Introduction, wearables in modern medicine
   2. Algorithms: Understanding the language of numbers and data
   3. Big data, data mining and predictive analytics
   4. Cloud computing and the Internet of Things
   5. Design and development, spanning generations and needs
   6. Ethics, privacy and wearable cybersecurity
   7. Frameworks: integration to digital networks and beyond
   8. Games and exercise: Exergames
   9. Hardware: sensors, sensors everywhere
   10. Instrumentation: from the traditional to the future
   11. Jewellery and fashion: wearables as everyday item
   12. Kits: exploring a world of ideas and opportunities
   13. Lab-on-a-chip: Wearables as a one stop shop for free-living assessments
   14. Machine learning and all things artificial
   15. Near field communication (NFC): up close but far away
   16. Operating systems and software integration: talk to me!
   17. Point of care technologies (PoCT): right here, right now
   18. Quantified-self: it’s all about me
   19. Reality, from virtual to augmented
   20. Sports medicine: bespoke player management
   21. Telemedicine
   22. Ubiquitous computing
   23. Validation, verification, reliability
   24. Ward, rehabilitation and clinic based wearable devices
   25. X-Games: wearables for disabled sport 
   26. Youth Applications
   27. Zeitgeist and future of wearables