Wearable Sensors, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2: From wearables to implantables—clinical drive and technical challenges

Panagiotis Kassanos^a; Bruno Gil Rosa^a; Meysam Keshavarz^a; Guang-Zhong Yang^b    a The Hamlyn Centre, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK^b Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Abstract

With an increasingly aging population and a need for decentralization of health care and remote, at-home, and bedside monitoring, there is a growing necessity for wearables and implantables with advanced capabilities that provide data suitable for clinical diagnostics. In this chapter, musculoskeletal applications serve as the exemplar for these technologies. The clinical drives for sensing and augmented ...