MHEALTH: REVIEW OF MOBILE HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS

With rise in world population, cost of healthcare also increased rapidly which led to the demand of low cost health monitoring solutions. In recent times, non-invasive wearable sensors have played an important role in healthcare applications. With advancement in wireless communication technologies, ubiquitous computing and embedded systems, the sensors need not be invasive anymore to accurately monitor a patient's health status, rather can be managed by user itself so as to keep a record of one's health condition. The advancement of healthcare technologies has enabled patients to monitor their vital health parameters on their own, and saves them from regular tiring hospital visits & high cost of laboratory medical checkups. It has also reduced the burden of healthcare service providers, thereby reducing overall medical costs. This paper provides a review of current status of mobile healthcare applications.