TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobile and wearable technologies in healthcare for the ageing population
AU - Malwade, Shwetambara
AU - Abdul, Shabbir Syed
AU - Uddin, Mohy
AU - Nursetyo, Aldilas Achmad
AU - Fernandez-Luque, Luis
AU - Zhu, Xinxin (Katie) K.
AU - Cilliers, Liezel
AU - Wong, Chun Por
AU - Bamidis, Panagiotis
AU - Li, Yu Chuan (Jack)
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is sponsored in part by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) under grant MOST 103-2221-E-038-014, MOST 103-2221-E-038-016, MOST 104-2221-E-038-013, MOST 104-3011-E-038-001, 106-2923-E-038-001-MY2 , Health and Welfare Surcharge of Tobacco products grant MOHW104-TDU-B-212-124-001 , Ministry of Education, Taiwan , under grant TMUTOP103006‐6 , Taipei Medical University under grant numbers SKH-TMU-105-01 and TMU102-AE1-B31 .
Funding Information:
This research is sponsored in part by Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) under grant MOST 103-2221-E-038-014, MOST 103-2221-E-038-016, MOST 104-2221-E-038-013, MOST 104-3011-E-038-001, 106-2923-E-038-001-MY2, Health and Welfare Surcharge of Tobacco products grant MOHW104-TDU-B-212-124-001, Ministry of Education, Taiwan, under grant TMUTOP103006‐6, Taipei Medical University under grant numbers SKH-TMU-105-01 and TMU102-AE1-B31.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - The 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo 2017) was held August 21–25, 2017, in Hangzhou, China. It provided a valuable platform for sharing the latest medical and health informatics research and related applications to the scientists, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs, and educators as well as students. During this event, on August 23, 2017, an important related topic was presented in a panel discussion entitled “Wearable technologies: Advancing the healthcare in ageing population” by panelists Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Panagiotis Bamidis, Chun-Por Wong, and Xinxin Zhu. Recent advances in health technologies, focusing on the aging population, their benefits and challenges were discussed, and these topics are summarized in this paper. The need for technology to improve of the life of older population, influential and beneficial technologies, for delivering these technologies to patients are described in this paper.
AB - The 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo 2017) was held August 21–25, 2017, in Hangzhou, China. It provided a valuable platform for sharing the latest medical and health informatics research and related applications to the scientists, medical practitioners, entrepreneurs, and educators as well as students. During this event, on August 23, 2017, an important related topic was presented in a panel discussion entitled “Wearable technologies: Advancing the healthcare in ageing population” by panelists Shabbir Syed-Abdul, Panagiotis Bamidis, Chun-Por Wong, and Xinxin Zhu. Recent advances in health technologies, focusing on the aging population, their benefits and challenges were discussed, and these topics are summarized in this paper. The need for technology to improve of the life of older population, influential and beneficial technologies, for delivering these technologies to patients are described in this paper.
KW - Ageing population
KW - Elderly healthcare
KW - Gamification
KW - MedInfo
KW - Mobile systems
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Wearable technology
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cmpb.2018.04.026
DO - 10.1016/j.cmpb.2018.04.026
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046658213
SN - 0169-2607
VL - 161
SP - 233
EP - 237
JO - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
JF - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
ER -