title: [M-health: trends in wearable medical devices].
abstract: This paper focuses on the trends in wearable medical devices for the applications in m-health. The state-of-art technologies for the continuous and noninvasive measurements of physiological parameters, implementation platforms of wearable medical devices - e-textile, and body sensor networks are reviewed here with examples of related recent research projects conducted in different countries. In addition, we introduce our recent research project on the e-textile-based health shirt (h-shirt), which can measure arterial blood pressure noninvasively, continuously and cufflessly.
authors.affiliation: Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Xiao-fei
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Teng
authors.forename: Yuan-Ting
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003020:Clothing; D004867:Equipment Design; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013784:Textiles