Abstract
Nowadays, wearable technology is the most promising and market growing technology. Wearable can be considered the winning card up to the mHealth sleeve. Despite mHealth born around the 2000s, only in the last lustrum, it has seen a massive diffusion both for monitoring and diagnosis. Moreover, many existing devices and products have been equipped with data transmission technologies in order to improve the capability of communicating data over the Internet by means of mobile devices (smartphone or tablet) or direct connection. Data transmission allow for communicating health data directly to physicians. This permits to monitor the patient from a distance directly from home, increasing their life quality and, in the meantime, decreasing the welfare costs. This chapter wants to be a compendium of the existing solution in term of wearable, but also non-wearable devices for mobile health. The last paragraph of the chapter reports current and future development of wearable devices, with invisible technology, smart garments, and Wearable 2.0.
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Perego, P. (2019). Device for mHealth. In: Andreoni, G., Perego, P., Frumento, E. (eds) m_Health Current and Future Applications. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02182-5_6
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