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  • Open Access
25 Citations
13,540 Views
46 Pages

AI-Driven Wearable Bioelectronics in Digital Healthcare

  • Guangqi Huang,
  • Xiaofeng Chen and
  • Caizhi Liao

26 June 2025

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with wearable bioelectronics is revolutionizing digital healthcare by enabling proactive, personalized, and data-driven medical solutions. These advanced devices, equipped with multimodal sensors and AI...

  • Review
  • Open Access
125 Citations
24,264 Views
21 Pages

5G Technology in Healthcare and Wearable Devices: A Review

  • Delshi Howsalya Devi,
  • Kumutha Duraisamy,
  • Ammar Armghan,
  • Meshari Alsharari,
  • Khaled Aliqab,
  • Vishal Sorathiya,
  • Sudipta Das and
  • Nasr Rashid

24 February 2023

Wearable devices with 5G technology are currently more ingrained in our daily lives, and they will now be a part of our bodies too. The requirement for personal health monitoring and preventive disease is increasing due to the predictable dramatic in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
16,557 Views
33 Pages

Wearable Sensors for Healthcare: Fabrication to Application

  • Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay,
  • Nagender Kumar Suryadevara and
  • Anindya Nag

8 July 2022

This paper presents a substantial review of the deployment of wearable sensors for healthcare applications. Wearable sensors hold a pivotal position in the microelectronics industry due to their role in monitoring physiological movements and signals....

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
20,953 Views
31 Pages

In recent years, the proliferation of wearable healthcare devices has marked a revolutionary shift in the personal health monitoring and management paradigm. These devices, ranging from fitness trackers to advanced biosensors, have not only made heal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
193 Citations
26,537 Views
37 Pages

Recent Advances on IoT-Assisted Wearable Sensor Systems for Healthcare Monitoring

  • Shwetank Dattatraya Mamdiwar,
  • Akshith R,
  • Zainab Shakruwala,
  • Utkarsh Chadha,
  • Kathiravan Srinivasan and
  • Chuan-Yu Chang

4 October 2021

IoT has played an essential role in many industries over the last few decades. Recent advancements in the healthcare industry have made it possible to make healthcare accessible to more people and improve their overall health. The next step in health...

  • Review
  • Open Access
281 Citations
28,651 Views
32 Pages

1 February 2021

With the increasing prevalence of growing population, aging and chronic diseases continuously rising healthcare costs, the healthcare system is undergoing a vital transformation from the traditional hospital-centered system to an individual-centered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
125 Citations
16,141 Views
16 Pages

Examining Consumers’ Adoption of Wearable Healthcare Technology: The Role of Health Attributes

  • Man Lai Cheung,
  • Ka Yin Chau,
  • Michael Huen Sum Lam,
  • Gary Tse,
  • Ka Yan Ho,
  • Stuart W. Flint,
  • David R Broom,
  • Ejoe Kar Ho Tso and
  • Ka Yiu Lee

With the advancement of information technology, wearable healthcare technology has emerged as one of the promising technologies to improve the wellbeing of individuals. However, the adoption of wearable healthcare technology has lagged when compared...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,734 Views
11 Pages

28 January 2021

With growing interest in healthcare, wearable healthcare devices have been developed and researched. In particular, near-field communication (NFC) based wearable devices have been actively studied for device miniaturization. Herein, this article prop...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,821 Views
28 Pages

Smart Detecting and Versatile Wearable Electrical Sensing Mediums for Healthcare

  • Ahsan Ali,
  • Muaz Ashfaq,
  • Aleen Qureshi,
  • Umar Muzammil,
  • Hamna Shaukat,
  • Shaukat Ali,
  • Wael A. Altabey,
  • Mohammad Noori and
  • Sallam A. Kouritem

21 July 2023

A rapidly expanding global population and a sizeable portion of it that is aging are the main causes of the significant increase in healthcare costs. Healthcare in terms of monitoring systems is undergoing radical changes, making it possible to gauge...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,926 Views
22 Pages

Wearable Near-Field Communication Sensors for Healthcare: Materials, Fabrication and Application

  • Xidi Sun,
  • Chengyan Zhao,
  • Hao Li,
  • Huiwen Yu,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Hao Qiu,
  • Junge Liang,
  • Jing Wu,
  • Mengrui Su and
  • Lijia Pan

The wearable device industry is on the rise, with technology applications ranging from wireless communication technologies to the Internet of Things. However, most of the wearable sensors currently on the market are expensive, rigid and bulky, leadin...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,420 Views
11 Pages

Healthcare Wearable Sensors Adhesion to Human Fingernails and Toenails

  • Katsuyuki Sakuma,
  • Leanna Pancoast,
  • Yiping Yao and
  • John Knickerbocker

29 December 2023

A novel adhesion method of a sensor to a fingernail is described. Wearable sensors can provide health insights to humans for a wide variety of benefits, such as continuous wellness monitoring and disease monitoring throughout a patient’s daily...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
17,183 Views
18 Pages

AI-Enabled Wearable Medical Internet of Things in Healthcare System: A Survey

  • Fazli Subhan,
  • Alina Mirza,
  • Mazliham Bin Mohd Su’ud,
  • Muhammad Mansoor Alam,
  • Shibli Nisar,
  • Usman Habib and
  • Muhammad Zubair Iqbal

20 January 2023

Technology has played a vital part in improving quality of life, especially in healthcare. Artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are extensively employed to link accessible medical resources and deliver dependable and effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,710 Views
17 Pages

This study developed a virtual reality interactive game with smart wireless wearable technology for healthcare of elderly users. The proposed wearable system uses its intelligent and wireless features to collect electromyography signals and upload th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,593 Views
26 Pages

A Taxonomy of Low-Power Techniques in Wearable Medical Devices for Healthcare Applications

  • Workineh Tesema,
  • Worku Jimma,
  • Muhammad Iqbal Khan,
  • Johan Stiens and
  • Bruno da Silva

Chronic diseases are the most prevalent and non-communicable health crisis globally. Most chronic disease patients require continuous physiological monitoring, using wearable technology for timely treatment, precise illness detection, and preventive...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
15,673 Views
79 Pages

Advancements in Wearable and Implantable BioMEMS Devices: Transforming Healthcare Through Technology

  • Vishnuram Abhinav,
  • Prithvi Basu,
  • Shikha Supriya Verma,
  • Jyoti Verma,
  • Atanu Das,
  • Savita Kumari,
  • Prateek Ranjan Yadav and
  • Vibhor Kumar

28 April 2025

Wearable and implantable BioMEMSs (biomedical microelectromechanical systems) have transformed modern healthcare by enabling continuous, personalized, and minimally invasive monitoring, diagnostics, and therapy. Wearable BioMEMSs have advanced rapidl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
113 Citations
24,044 Views
34 Pages

15 December 2020

Recent advances in lab-on-a-chip technology establish solid foundations for wearable biosensors. These newly emerging wearable biosensors are capable of non-invasive, continuous monitoring by miniaturization of electronics and integration with microf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,294 Views
10 Pages

Feasibility of Wearable Digital Healthcare Devices Among Korean Male Seafarers: A Pilot Study

  • Du-Ri Kim,
  • Jong-Hwan Park,
  • Min-Woo Jang,
  • Min-Ji Sung,
  • Seung-Hwan Song,
  • Up Huh,
  • Young-Jin Ra and
  • Young-Jin Tak

Background/Objectives: This study is a pilot evaluation of the applicability of wearable digital healthcare devices for Korean male seafarers. Seafarers are exposed to health risks due to unstable and confined living conditions, and their access to h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,717 Views
28 Pages

Overview of Wearable Healthcare Devices for Clinical Decision Support in the Prehospital Setting

  • Rachel Gathright,
  • Isiah Mejia,
  • Jose M. Gonzalez,
  • Sofia I. Hernandez Torres,
  • David Berard and
  • Eric J. Snider

22 December 2024

Prehospital medical care is a major challenge for both civilian and military situations as resources are limited, yet critical triage and treatment decisions must be rapidly made. Prehospital medicine is further complicated during mass casualty situa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,119 Views
11 Pages

Factors Affecting the Usage of Wearable Device Technology for Healthcare among Indian Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Vathsala Patil,
  • Deepak Kumar Singhal,
  • Nithesh Naik,
  • B. M. Zeeshan Hameed,
  • Milap J. Shah,
  • Sufyan Ibrahim,
  • Komal Smriti,
  • Gaurav Chatterjee,
  • Ameya Kale and
  • Bhaskar K. Somani
  • + 2 authors

28 November 2022

Background: Wearable device technology has recently been involved in the healthcare industry substantially. India is the world’s third largest market for wearable devices and is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of ~26.33%. However...

  • Review
  • Open Access
493 Citations
47,732 Views
35 Pages

26 May 2011

Wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies are considered one of the key research areas in computer science and the healthcare application industries for improving the quality of life. The purpose of this paper is to provide a snapshot of current dev...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,144 Views
15 Pages

Smart wearable patch systems that combine biosensing and therapeutic components have emerged as promising approaches for personalized healthcare and therapeutic platforms that enable self-administered, noninvasive, user-friendly, and long-acting smar...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,858 Views
18 Pages

Machine Learning Applied to Edge Computing and Wearable Devices for Healthcare: Systematic Mapping of the Literature

  • Carlos Vinicius Fernandes Pereira,
  • Edvard Martins de Oliveira and
  • Adler Diniz de Souza

29 September 2024

The integration of machine learning (ML) with edge computing and wearable devices is rapidly advancing healthcare applications. This study systematically maps the literature in this emerging field, analyzing 171 studies and focusing on 28 key article...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
17,641 Views
23 Pages

Past, Present and Future of Research on Wearable Technologies for Healthcare: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Scopus

  • Yolanda-María de-la-Fuente-Robles,
  • Adrián-Jesús Ricoy-Cano,
  • Antonio-Pedro Albín-Rodríguez,
  • José Luis López-Ruiz and
  • Macarena Espinilla-Estévez

8 November 2022

Currently, wearable technology is present in different fields that aim to satisfy our needs in daily life, including the improvement of our health in general, the monitoring of patient health, ensuring the safety of people in the workplace or support...

  • Review
  • Open Access
520 Views
38 Pages

31 December 2025

Wearable healthcare is shifting from passive tracking to active, closed-loop care by integrating polymeric three-dimensional (3D)-printed microneedle arrays (MNAs) with soft electronics and wireless modules. This review surveys the design, materials,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,492 Views
25 Pages

30 September 2022

There have been many attempts to predict new markets, including a new market for internet of things (IoT)-based healthcare and the IoT platform’s ability to offer a variety of applications. It is anticipated that the market for these devices wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,927 Views
28 Pages

Impact of Actual Use Behavior of Healthcare Wearable Devices on Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Survey of People with Dementia and Their Caregivers in Ghana

  • Ebenezer Larnyo,
  • Baozhen Dai,
  • Abigail Larnyo,
  • Jonathan Aseye Nutakor,
  • Sabina Ampon-Wireko,
  • Edmund Nana Kwame Nkrumah and
  • Ruth Appiah

30 January 2022

The increasing prevalence of dementia has necessitated the introduction and use of healthcare wearable devices to augment the healthcare services delivered to people with dementia (PWDs). Unfortunately, evidence on user feedback and the real impact o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
134 Citations
8,262 Views
19 Pages

FL-PMI: Federated Learning-Based Person Movement Identification through Wearable Devices in Smart Healthcare Systems

  • K. S. Arikumar,
  • Sahaya Beni Prathiba,
  • Mamoun Alazab,
  • Thippa Reddy Gadekallu,
  • Sharnil Pandya,
  • Javed Masood Khan and
  • Rajalakshmi Shenbaga Moorthy

11 February 2022

Recent technological developments, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, edge, and cloud computing, have paved the way in transforming traditional healthcare systems into smart healthcare (SHC) systems. SHC escalates healthca...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,729 Views
10 Pages

Task Scheduling to Constrain Peak Current Consumption in Wearable Healthcare Sensors

  • Robert Simon Sherratt,
  • Balazs Janko,
  • Terence Hui,
  • William S. Harwin,
  • Nilanjan Dey,
  • Daniel Díaz-Sánchez,
  • Jin Wang and
  • Fuqian Shi

Small embedded systems, in our case wearable healthcare devices, have significant engineering challenges to reduce their power consumption for longer battery life, while at the same time supporting ever-increasing processing requirements for more int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
13,079 Views
21 Pages

An Energy-Efficient Algorithm for Wearable Electrocardiogram Signal Processing in Ubiquitous Healthcare Applications

  • Ali Hassan Sodhro,
  • Arun Kumar Sangaiah,
  • Gul Hassan Sodhro,
  • Sonia Lohano and
  • Sandeep Pirbhulal

20 March 2018

Rapid progress and emerging trends in miniaturized medical devices have enabled the un-obtrusive monitoring of physiological signals and daily activities of everyone’s life in a prominent and pervasive manner. Due to the power-constrained nature of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,812 Views
13 Pages

User Experiences and Attitudes Toward Sharing Wearable Activity Tracker Data with Healthcare Providers: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Kimberley Szeto,
  • Carol Maher,
  • Rachel G. Curtis,
  • Ben Singh,
  • Tara Cain,
  • Darcy Beckett and
  • Ty Ferguson

Background/Objectives: Wearable activity trackers (WATs) are increasingly used by individuals to monitor physical activity, sleep, and other health behaviors. Integrating WAT data into clinical care may offer a cost-effective strategy to support heal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
111 Citations
15,670 Views
37 Pages

9 March 2023

Sensors enable the detection of physiological indicators and pathological markers to assist in the diagnosis, treatment, and long-term monitoring of diseases, in addition to playing an essential role in the observation and evaluation of physiological...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,858 Views
6 Pages

30 October 2020

The development and study of a novel and very miniaturized ultra-wideband (UWB) wearable band-notch antenna for body sensor networks (BSNs) and mobile healthcare system have been presented in this paper. A very user-friendly and reliable software Com...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,178 Views
20 Pages

Digital Twins for Healthcare Using Wearables

  • Zachary Johnson and
  • Manob Jyoti Saikia

Digital twins are a relatively new form of digital modeling that has been gaining popularity in recent years. This is in large part due to their ability to update in real time to their physical counterparts and connect across multiple devices. As a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,667 Views
21 Pages

17 January 2024

A 16-channel front-end readout chip for a radiation detector is designed for portable or wearable healthcare monitoring applications. The proposed chip reads the signal of the radiation detector and converts it into digital serial-out data by using a...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,782 Views
9 Pages

Advances, Benefits, and Challenges of Wearable Sensors for Healthcare and Stress Management: A Focus on Hemodynamic Parameters and Cortisol Measurement

  • Georgios V. Taskasaplidis,
  • Konstantinos A. Liogas,
  • Alexander M. Korsunsky,
  • Dimitris A. Fotiadis and
  • Panagiotis D. Bamidis

26 November 2024

Stress has multiple effects on human health. Sensors designed to measure stress and indicate health status by recognizing illnesses or other conditions (e.g., heart problems and blood pressure) have been widely utilized to monitor and characterize th...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,756 Views
9 Pages

We concentrate on the importance and future conceptual development of wearable devices as the major means of personalized healthcare. We discuss and address the role of wearables in the new era of healthcare in proactive medicine. This work addresses...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,308 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2025

Background: Healthcare organizations face major challenges in protecting staff health and ensuring business continuity, particularly in high-risk settings. Wearable technologies are emerging tools to monitor occupational health indicators, improve st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
155 Citations
47,587 Views
16 Pages

Motivation and User Engagement in Fitness Tracking: Heuristics for Mobile Healthcare Wearables

  • Stavros Asimakopoulos,
  • Grigorios Asimakopoulos and
  • Frank Spillers

Wearable fitness trackers have gained a new level of popularity due to their ambient data gathering and analysis. This has signalled a trend toward self-efficacy and increased motivation among users of these devices. For consumers looking to improve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,791 Views
22 Pages

2 October 2025

The rapid growth of AI-enabled medical wearables and home-based diagnostic devices has opened new pathways for preventive care, chronic disease management and user-driven health insights. Despite significant technological progress, many solutions fac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,658 Views
26 Pages

Advanced Textile-Based Wearable Biosensors for Healthcare Monitoring

  • Sheng Li,
  • Huan Li,
  • Yongcai Lu,
  • Minhao Zhou,
  • Sai Jiang,
  • Xiaosong Du and
  • Chang Guo

27 September 2023

With the innovation of wearable technology and the rapid development of biosensors, wearable biosensors based on flexible textile materials have become a hot topic. Such textile-based wearable biosensors promote the development of health monitoring,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,852 Views
12 Pages

21 July 2025

In Korea, the Public Health Center Mobile Healthcare Project was implemented in 2016. This project utilizes Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and big data to establish a health-related service foundation and a healthcare service operatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
182 Citations
19,704 Views
13 Pages

A Novel Wearable Electronic Nose for Healthcare Based on Flexible Printed Chemical Sensor Array

  • Panida Lorwongtragool,
  • Enrico Sowade,
  • Natthapol Watthanawisuth,
  • Reinhard R. Baumann and
  • Teerakiat Kerdcharoen

22 October 2014

A novel wearable electronic nose for armpit odor analysis is proposed by using a low-cost chemical sensor array integrated in a ZigBee wireless communication system. We report the development of a carbon nanotubes (CNTs)/polymer sensor array based on...

  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
35,806 Views
30 Pages

18 November 2024

Wearable biosensors are a fast-evolving topic at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and personalized medicine. These sensors, which are frequently integrated into clothes and accessories or directly applied to the skin, provide continuous, r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,620 Views
22 Pages

Wearable Multi-Functional Sensing Technology for Healthcare Smart Detection

  • Xu Zeng,
  • Hai-Tao Deng,
  • Dan-Liang Wen,
  • Yao-Yao Li,
  • Li Xu and
  • Xiao-Sheng Zhang

2 February 2022

In recent years, considerable research efforts have been devoted to the development of wearable multi-functional sensing technology to fulfill the requirements of healthcare smart detection, and much progress has been achieved. Due to the appealing c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
9,193 Views
29 Pages

Advances in Medical Wearable Biosensors: Design, Fabrication and Materials Strategies in Healthcare Monitoring

  • Sangeeth Pillai,
  • Akshaya Upadhyay,
  • Darren Sayson,
  • Bich Hong Nguyen and
  • Simon D. Tran

28 December 2021

In the past decade, wearable biosensors have radically changed our outlook on contemporary medical healthcare monitoring systems. These smart, multiplexed devices allow us to quantify dynamic biological signals in real time through highly sensitive,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,784 Views
22 Pages

Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Sensors in Healthcare Delivery

  • Sahalu Balarabe Junaid,
  • Abdullahi Abubakar Imam,
  • Muhammad Abdulkarim,
  • Yusuf Alhaji Surakat,
  • Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun,
  • Ganesh Kumar,
  • Aliyu Nuhu Shuaibu,
  • Aliyu Garba,
  • Yusra Sahalu and
  • Ahmad Sobri Hashim
  • + 4 authors

12 October 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) and wearable sensors are gradually transforming healthcare service delivery from the traditional hospital-centred model to the personal-portable-device-centred model. Studies have revealed that this transformation can pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,143 Views
29 Pages

30 October 2025

This study explores how patients and stakeholders envision integrated digital health systems. Background/Objectives: Integrating artificial intelligence (AI), wearable data, electronic health records (EHRs), and patient-reported outcomes could enable...

  • Review
  • Open Access
481 Citations
57,736 Views
23 Pages

Evolution of Wearable Devices with Real-Time Disease Monitoring for Personalized Healthcare

  • Kyeonghye Guk,
  • Gaon Han,
  • Jaewoo Lim,
  • Keunwon Jeong,
  • Taejoon Kang,
  • Eun-Kyung Lim and
  • Juyeon Jung

Wearable devices are becoming widespread in a wide range of applications, from healthcare to biomedical monitoring systems, which enable continuous measurement of critical biomarkers for medical diagnostics, physiological health monitoring and evalua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,945 Views
32 Pages

Intelligent Fog-Enabled Smart Healthcare System for Wearable Physiological Parameter Detection

  • Muhammad Ijaz,
  • Gang Li,
  • Huiquan Wang,
  • Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny,
  • Yussif Moro Awelisah,
  • Ling Lin,
  • Anis Koubaa and
  • Alam Noor

28 November 2020

Wearable technology plays a key role in smart healthcare applications. Detection and analysis of the physiological data from wearable devices is an essential process in smart healthcare. Physiological data analysis is performed in fog computing to ab...

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