A Critical Analyze on Healthcare Monitoring Systems Requirements

The technological advances in these days perform a significant role in the healthcare systems especially with the speedy increased number of elderly population in the last years. Patient Health Monitoring Systems importance is gained from the growing demands for medical care systems to observe several medical parameters. This paper aims to identify the major techniques and communication protocols that are used in the wearable sensor networks and to highlight their advantages and disadvantages. A number of research papers will be reviewed as a current state-of-the-art for each technique. A large diversity of components of wearable health monitoring system (WHMS) will be illustrated such as biosensors, control units, wireless communication modules, processing units, medical shields, links, power supplies, wearable materials, software, and also the advanced algorithms that use for decision making and data extracting. An architecture emphasizing the wireless communication modules for WHMS is also proposed.