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An IoT approach for integration of computational intelligence and wearable sensors for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and monitoring

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Nowadays the continuous growing in global population and the related increase of life expectancy lead to explore new ways of making the most of the limited resources humanity has. This endeavor challenges especially the current health care of elderly population, which is particularly associated with a marked prevalence of chronic neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease. Internet of Things and wearable technologies have opened up a new revolution in the domain of healthcare. Minimizing the response time in diagnosis and treatment, Internet of Things thrives towards omnipresence of the healthcare services. Using wearable devices, the lifestyle data is collected from multifarious sources, which is then accumulated, analyzed and acted upon. The emerging technological area of Wearable Sensors and the Internet of Things seems to provide a smart and intelligent way of catering ubiquitous healthcare services to the elderly population, taking healthcare facilities to a higher dimension of omnipresence.

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  1. Gabinete de Tecnología Médica, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, San Juan, Argentina

    Luis Eduardo Romero

  2. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional Regional Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Parag Chatterjee & Ricardo Luis Armentano

  3. Universidad Favaloro, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Ricardo Luis Armentano

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Romero, L.E., Chatterjee, P. & Armentano, R.L. An IoT approach for integration of computational intelligence and wearable sensors for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and monitoring. Health Technol. 6, 167–172 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-016-0148-0

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