Affordable health care is an issue
of concern for both the public and governments. In the latter years we have seen a shift in the approach of medical technology companies to deliver products providing cheap, fast and more efficient patient care. There are
constant emerging technologies that will facilitate the development of such
systems and aid the patients in their everyday life.
The field of biomedical
engineering is interdisciplinary, merging biological research with engineering,
imaging and sense technology, which has seen the birth of several systems that
aid in the monitoring and cure of the health of humans.
In several areas of research
biomedical systems have evolved into user-friendly devices that monitor a
patients’ performance remotely. With such systems in place it reduces the amount of doctor’s visits by the patient, while the patient is still monitored
by health professionals. Wearable computing has been applied in various fields
within the healthcare sector to monitor the health and the welfare of patients.