Title page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Smart Personalised Health Systems: From Gadgets to Better Health -- Wearable Sensing -- Wearable Healthcare Systems, New Frontiers of e-Textile -- Electroactive Fabrics for Distributed, Comfortable and Interactive Systems -- Point of Care Biomedical Sensors -- Bioimpedance and p-Health -- Vital Sign Monitoring for Elderly at Home: Development of a Compound Sensor for Pulse Rate and Motion -- MyHeart: Fighting Cardio-Vascular Diseases by Preventive Lifestyle and Early Diagnosis -- Smart Textiles -- Motion Aware Clothing for the Personal Health Assistant -- Integrated Microelectronics for Smart Textiles -- Wearable Sensors? What Is There to Sense? -- Micro and Nano Technology Enabling Ambient Intelligence for P-Health -- Standards & Interoperability -- A Small Step for Science, a Big One for Commerce -- The Efficacy of Knowledge Management for Personalised Healthcare -- Interoperability as a Quality Label for Portable & Wearable Health Monitoring Systems -- Software Process Improvement for the Medical Industry -- Interoperability - A Key Infrastructure Requirement for Personalised Health Services -- Community Health 1 -- Homecare Service Perspective in Tuscany: Vision and New User Centred Services -- A Cataract Decision Support System: Its Requirement Is Increasing -- Context-Aware Infrastructure for Personalized Healthcare -- Software and Knowledge Engineering Aspects of Smart Homes Applied to Health -- End-to-End Signal Processing from the Embedded Body Sensor to the Medical End User Through QoS-Less Public Communication Channels: The U-R-SAFE Experience -- IT-Based Diagnostic Instrumentation Systems for Personalized Healthcare Services -- Networking and Data Management for Health Care Monitoring of Mobile Patients -- Community Health 2.

Lifestyle Support Through Efficient ECG Acquisition and Analysis -- Non-Mediated Glucose Biosensing Using Nanostructured TiO2 -- Detection and Removal of Pathogenic Biofilms on Medical Implant Surfaces -- Development of a Virtual Reality System for the Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb After Stroke -- Monitoring of Symptoms and Interventions Associated with Multiple Sclerosis -- Intelligent Analysis of EMG Data for Improving Lifestyle -- Author Index.

The development and advancement of personalised health management systems requires the consideration of advances in sensor technologies and advanced textiles in addition to nano technologies and evolving information and communication technologies. We are now living in an environment where changes in healthcare structures and requests from patients to have an increased participation in their own healthcare are demanding the availability of affordable and readily available personalised health management systems. Recent research has taken us a step closer in providing such solutions, however, efforts are still required to address the issues of integration of new technologies into existing health care practices, implications of interoperability of services, analysis of results following large scale clinical evaluations and development of technology which is small, reliable and affordable by its users. This publication shows a synergy between research efforts in three diverse areas; sensor technologies, advanced textiles and nanotechnology and computing. It brings together researchers from academia, industry and clinical healthcare provision and emphasises the need for multi-disciplinary collaborations in the future developments of personalised health management systems.

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