The Smart Cyber Ecosystem for Sustainable Development

13Monitoring Technologies for Precision Health

Rehab A. Rayan¹* and Imran Zafar²

¹Department of Epidemiology, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

²Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Conventional health systems are aiming to diagnose first and treat diseases afterward. The growing precision health seeks early diagnosing and customized therapy for a health condition, by ongoing tracking of individual health and well-being. Portable and implantable devices can dynamically track and evaluate health, supplying a broad view of human living and health. Growing techniques are promising in powering the effect of precision health. For instance, the emerging monitoring techniques would continuously gather data and engage the customer. Novel techniques are steadily developing, hence the need for improved insights into the scenery of the current and future techniques which could gather data for precision health. This chapter outlines the available and growing tracking and sensing techniques for precision health, focusing especially on the highly needed techniques like portable and mobile devices, implantable sensors, and wearables.

Keywords: Precision health, health monitoring, sensors, wearables, healthcare

13.1 Introduction

Precision health is an evolving technique for managing health. It promotes early disease diagnosing and prevention for subjects via counting for genetic, ...