title: pHealth and wearable technologies: a permanent challenge.
abstract: Wearable technologies have been evolving towards daily usage and are a major player in the personalized health challenge. In this paper we present a personal view of their evolution, how one of them developed within our lab went to the international market and how this type of technology is being used in pHealth projects for first responder professionals and public transportation drivers.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal. jcunha@ieee.org
authors.forename: João Paulo Silva
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Cunha
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*