The promise of mHealth: daily activity monitoring and outcome assessments by wearable sensors.

ABSTRACT: Mobile health tools that enable clinicians and researchers to monitor the type, quantity, and quality of everyday activities of patients and trial participants have long been needed to improve daily care, design more clinically meaningful randomized trials of interventions, and establish cost-effective, evidence-based practices. Inexpensive, unobtrusive wireless sensors, including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and pressure-sensitive textiles, combined with Internet-based communications and machine-learning algorithms trained to recognize upper- and lower-extremity movements, have begun to fulfill this need. Continuous data from ankle triaxial accelerometers, for example, can be transmitted from the home and community via WiFi or a smartphone to a remote data analysis server. Reports can incl

SUBMITTER: Dobkin BH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4098920 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature