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patient care systems for a long time. The concept of
sensor-based patient monitoring using wireless body
area network (WBAN) will bring revolutionary
changes in health care systems. WBAN allows
flexibility in providing location independent and
seamless patient monitoring without affecting the
lifestyle of patients.
6 CONCLUSIONS
This paper presents an overview of wearable
WBAN-based patient monitoring system. Potential
applications include early detection of abnormal
conditions and supervised cardiac rehabilitation.
Automatic integration of collected information and
user’s inputs into research databases can provide
medical community with opportunity to search for
personalized trends and group patterns, allowing
insights into disease evolution, the rehabilitation
process, and the effects of drug therapy.
The achieved results are satisfactory for the
monitoring purposes. However, more tests are
needed to develop system that will focus on
prevention and early detection of health conditions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work was supported by the National Research
Center as a research project No. 2011/01/N/ST7/
06779.
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