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The healthcare cost is rising each year, and in the U.S. reached around 16%-17% of the GDP with the trend to add at least one percent each year. Wide utilization of wireless communications can reduce the healthcare cost by billions of dollars on an annual basis, keeping the high quality of services.
Ambient Intelligence is a vision where environment becomes smart, friendly, context-aware and responsive to any type of human needs. In such a world, computing and networking technology coexist with people in a ubiquitous, friendly and pervasive way. Numerous miniature and interconnected smart devices create a new intelligence and interact with each other seamlessly. For healthcare, this translates into proliferation of remote monitoring and telemedicine; as well as M2M networking.
The report addresses recent advances of wireless communications technologies for medical/fitness applications.
Particular, it analyzes the following:
- Status of M2M technologies, standardization and development for medical applications
- Development and standardization of the wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) and Medical Body Area Network (WMBAN)
Underlying technologies:
- Bluetooth and its Medical Profile
- ZigBee and its Medical Profile
- Wi-Fi low-power consumption technology
- Z-Wave, Ant and other technologies
- Self-powered wireless sensors
- Continua Health Care Alliance activities and wireless communications.
The report concentrates on up-to-date progress of WICT (and particular M2M) integration with healthcare and wellness. It analyzes technologies and market characteristics, related standards, surveys industries and shows the importance of WICT in the process of healthcare transformation. The report emphasizes the necessity of further proliferation standardized wireless communications in medicine and wellness to reduce their cost and enhance quality of services.
Target Audience
The report addresses the development of M2M for medical and wellness applications. Such applications become possible, in great degree, due to the ICT progress and standardization specifically for patents monitoring, remote medicine and similar; it concentrates on the recent developmental trends. The report is useful for service providers, IT departments of hospitals and other medical organizations, retail operators, vendors, network operators and managers, investors and end users seeking to gain a deeper understanding of new trends in the wireless communications medical applications.
Research Methodology
Considerable research was done using the Internet. Information from various Web sites was studied and analyzed; evaluation of publicly available marketing and technical publications was also conducted. Telephone conversations and interviews were held with industry analysts, technical experts and executives. In addition to these interviews and primary research, secondary sources were used to develop a more complete mosaic of the market landscape, including industry and trade publications, conferences and seminars.
The overriding objective throughout the work has been to provide valid and relevant information. This has led to a continual review and update of the information content.
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