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What is Biometric Monitoring

Transformative Approaches to Patient Literacy and Healthcare Innovation
The process of using technology to measure and analyze biological data. In the context of wearable health technology, this refers to tracking physiological metrics such as heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and sleep patterns.
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Advanced Wearable Medical Devices and Their Role in Transformative Remote Health Monitoring
Muhammad Usman Tariq (Abu Dhabi University, UAE & University of Glasgow, Glasgow UK)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-3661-8.ch015
Abstract
This chapter explores the ever-changing environment of wearable health technology and its critical role in transforming modern healthcare. It goes into the historical history of these devices, tracking their path from basic fitness trackers to sophisticated health-monitoring systems, focusing on proactive and preventative health management. The present scene emphasizes the range and breadth of accessible wearable technology in healthcare. It discusses sensor improvements, biometric monitoring, and wireless communications. These advancements have significantly improved the precision and effectiveness of monitoring of numerous health markers. This chapter also thoroughly reviews the use of wearable devices in remote patient monitoring, emphasizing their revolutionary influence on chronic illness management and senior care through real-world case studies. Furthermore, investigates the integration of wearable device data into healthcare systems for real-time monitoring, covering technological and infrastructure issues.
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Human Factor Role for Cyber Threats Resilience
Monitoring of users’ characteristics, related to conscious and unconscious changes of human traits and body parameters, like: temperament, motivation, temperature, skin conductance, posture balance, brain activity, heart rate dynamics, etc., for assessing users’ more complex characteristics like emotions and behaviour.
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