Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnosis
Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in life expectancy owing to significant advances in medical science and technology, medicine as well as increased awareness about nutrition, education, and environmental and personal hygiene. Consequently, the elderly population in many co...
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| description | Over the past few decades, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in life expectancy owing to significant advances in medical science and technology, medicine as well as increased awareness about nutrition, education, and environmental and personal hygiene. Consequently, the elderly population in many countries are expected to rise rapidly in the coming years. A rapidly rising elderly demographics is expected to adversely affect the socioeconomic systems of many nations in terms of costs associated with their healthcare and wellbeing. In addition, diseases related to the cardiovascular system, eye, respiratory system, skin and mental health are widespread globally. However, most of these diseases can be avoided and/or properly managed through continuous monitoring. In order to enable continuous health monitoring as well as to serve growing healthcare needs; affordable, non-invasive and easy-to-use healthcare solutions are critical. The ever-increasing penetration of smartphones, coupled with embedded sensors and modern communication technologies, make it an attractive technology for enabling continuous and remote monitoring of an individual’s health and wellbeing with negligible additional costs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research and developments in smartphone-sensor based healthcare technologies. A discussion on regulatory policies for medical devices and their implications in smartphone-based healthcare systems is presented. Finally, some future research perspectives and concerns regarding smartphone-based healthcare systems are described. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cadca7aeced34b75b43cea36c1030d2b2022-12-22T04:00:38ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202019-05-01199216410.3390/s19092164s19092164Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and DiagnosisSumit Majumder0M. Jamal Deen1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, CanadaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, CanadaOver the past few decades, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in life expectancy owing to significant advances in medical science and technology, medicine as well as increased awareness about nutrition, education, and environmental and personal hygiene. Consequently, the elderly population in many countries are expected to rise rapidly in the coming years. A rapidly rising elderly demographics is expected to adversely affect the socioeconomic systems of many nations in terms of costs associated with their healthcare and wellbeing. In addition, diseases related to the cardiovascular system, eye, respiratory system, skin and mental health are widespread globally. However, most of these diseases can be avoided and/or properly managed through continuous monitoring. In order to enable continuous health monitoring as well as to serve growing healthcare needs; affordable, non-invasive and easy-to-use healthcare solutions are critical. The ever-increasing penetration of smartphones, coupled with embedded sensors and modern communication technologies, make it an attractive technology for enabling continuous and remote monitoring of an individual’s health and wellbeing with negligible additional costs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art research and developments in smartphone-sensor based healthcare technologies. A discussion on regulatory policies for medical devices and their implications in smartphone-based healthcare systems is presented. Finally, some future research perspectives and concerns regarding smartphone-based healthcare systems are described.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/9/2164smartphoneremote healthcaremHealthtelehealthmedical deviceregulationsmartphone sensor |
| spellingShingle | Sumit Majumder M. Jamal Deen Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnosis Sensors smartphone remote healthcare mHealth telehealth medical device regulation smartphone sensor |
| title | Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnosis |
| title_full | Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnosis |
| title_fullStr | Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnosis |
| title_short | Smartphone Sensors for Health Monitoring and Diagnosis |
| title_sort | smartphone sensors for health monitoring and diagnosis |
| topic | smartphone remote healthcare mHealth telehealth medical device regulation smartphone sensor |
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