Digital Health

Digital Health: Exploring Use and Integration of Wearables 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 book provides a pragmatic A to Z guide on the design, deployment and use of wearable technologies for laboratory and remote patient assessment, aligning 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.

Entering the domain of wearables in healthcare is notoriously difficult as 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.

• Presents the first guide for wearable technologies in a multidisciplinary and translational manner
• Helps engineers design real-world applications to help them better understand theory and 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. Kits for wearable sensor systems: exploring software and hardware system design, building guides and opportunities for clinical rehabilitation
2. Instrumenting traditional approaches to physical assessment
3. Lab-on-a-chip: Wearables as a one stop shop for free-living assessments
4. Ward, rehabilitation and clinic based wearable devices
5. Point of care technologies (PoCT)
6. Healing and monitoring of chronic wounds: advances in wearable technologies
7. Validation, verification and reliability
8. Big data and Data Mining for Wearable-based Mobility Analysis
9. Machine Learning for Healthcare using Wearable Sensors
10. Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
11. Frameworks: integration to digital networks and beyond
12. Telemedicine Systems to Manage Chronic Disease
13. Networks and near field communication: up close but far away
14. Ubiquitous computing
15. Sports medicine: bespoke player management
16. Wearables for disabled and extreme sports
17. Reality, from virtual to augmented
18. Youth applications
19. Wearables design and development in a shifting public health domain: towards the ‘fifth wave’
20. Jewellery and Clothing: Transforming from Decoration to Information
21. The rise of wearables: From Innovation to Implementation