Title page -- Preface -- Message from the organizers -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Health in the Information and Knowledge Economy Age - A European Perspective -- Introduction to User Needs, Technological Concepts and Market Trends -- Executive Summary -- New Concepts and Technologies in Home Care and Ambulatory Monitoring -- MyHeart: Fighting Cardiovascular Disease by Preventive Lifestyle and Early Diagnosis -- Health0: A New Health and Lifestyle Management Paradigm -- How Wearable Technologies Will Impact the Future of Health Care -- World-Wide Technical Overview -- Executive Summary -- Optimizing Workflow and Knowledge in Healthcare through Innovation -- I-Wear for Health Care and Wellness - State of the Art and Future Possibilities -- Research in Intelligent Biomedical Clothing vs. Realities in the European Textile Business -- Current and Future R&D Activities of the EC-IST Programme in eHealth -- Interactive Textiles for Warrior Systems Applications -- Challenges of Ambulatory Physiological Sensing -- Driver Monitoring - New Challenges for Smart Sensor-Based Systems -- Market Research on Garment-Based "Wearables" and Biophysical Monitoring and a New Monitoring Method -- Smart Wearable Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems -- Executive Summary -- New Paradigms in Telemedicine: Ambient Intelligence, Wearable, Pervasive and Personalized -- The LifeShirt: A Multi-Function Ambulatory System Monitoring Health, Disease, and Medical Intervention in the Real World -- Body Area Network - A Key Infrastructure Element for Patient-Centered Telemedicine -- Contact Centers, Pervasive Computing and Telemedicine: A Quality Health Care Triangle -- Research and Development of Smart Wearable Health Applications: The Challenge Ahead -- On-Body Diagnosis for Wearable Systems Serving Biomedical Needs.

Communication and Interoperability for Serial Comparison in Continuous Health Care - The New Challenges -- Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: The MobiHealth Project -- Development of Electronic Textiles for U.S. Military Protective Clothing Systems -- Smart Wearable and Implantable Disease Management Systems -- Executive Summary -- Wearable and Implantable Monitoring Systems: 10 Years Experience at University of Ulster -- Artificial Kinesthetic Systems for Telerehabilitation -- Implantable Medical Devices: Current Status and Future Developments within the Healthy-Aims Project -- The Role of Implantable Sensors for Management of Heart Failure -- EvoCare: A New Standard in Tele-Therapy -- Biomedical Clothing -- Executive Summary -- e-Health and Quality of Life: The Role of the Wearable Motherboard -- Wearable System for Vital Signs Monitoring -- Telemonitoring of Vital Parameters with Newly Designed Biomedical Clothing -- Strain Sensing Fabric for Hand Posture and Gesture Monitoring -- Wearable Textile Biofeedback Systems: Are They Too Intelligent for the Wearer? -- Potential Applications of Smart Clothing Solutions in Health Care and Personal Protection -- Body Motion Capture for Activity Monitoring -- An e-Textile System for Motion Analysis -- Round Table Debate -- New Solutions for Personalised Health Management: Citizens' Needs, Healthcare Changes, and Market Perspectives - Round Table Debate -- Smart Fibers and Fabrics: The Challenges to Wearable Health -- Executive Summary -- Smart Fabrics: Integrating Fiber Optic Sensors and Information Networks -- A Feasibility Study of Yarns and Fibers with Annexed Electronic Functions: The ARIANNE Project -- Development of Textile-Based High-Tech Products: The New Challenge -- Smart and Hybrid Materials: Perspectives for Their Use in Textile Structures for Better Health Care -- Smart Textiles.

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The new generation of wearable personal eHealth systems has to be affordable, user-friendly, "invisible", autonomous in terms of power consumption and able to assist individuals in their own health management. Major challenges are ahead such as further research and development, user acceptance and trust, cost-effectiveness and business models. Intelligent Biomedical Clothing and biomedical sensors are becoming major driving forces for cutting-edge developments. The synergy and close collaboration of all involved disciplines and sectors is of paramount importance. This book consists of papers describing developments and trends all over the world in the areas of smart wearable monitoring and diagnostic systems, smart treatment systems, biomedical clothing and smart fibres and fabrics. It covers also non-research aspects such as citizens and patients needs, interoperability, risk management and market perspectives. The chapters are preceded by a short executive summary which highlights the main issues, findings and conclusions for the convenience of the reader. The participation of the major actors involved in research, development, decision making and business should make this book unique and a pioneer in the field.

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