Wearable Technology in the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Future

Abstract

Wearable systems for continuous monitoring of patient status could positively affect the quality of patient management in rehabilitation hospitals. Wireless systems are particularly attractive in the context of monitoring patients over periods of a few days to a week. Special garments constitute an appealing solution for monitoring patients over periods of weeks to months. Two main categories of applications are relevant to rehabilitation medicine: 1) monitoring patients in the inpatient units and 2) monitoring patients in an outpatient setting