Medical Healthcare Monitoring with Wearable and Implantable Sensors

The last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices for healthcare, with implantable in vivo monitoring and intervention devices being key developments in this area. Permanent implants combined with wearable monitoring devices could provide continuous assessment of critical physiological parameters for identifying precursors of major adverse events. Open research issues in this area are predominantly related to novel sensor interface design, practical and reliable distributed computing environments for multi-sensory data fusion, but the concept itself is deemed to have further impact in many other areas. This position paper describes a scenario from the UbiMon [1] project, which is aimed at investigating healthcare delivery by combining wearable and implantable sensors.