“A ubiquitous health monitoring system that automatically alerted the patient’s family or physician to problematic changes in the person’s vital signs could cut hospital visits and save lives, according to Japanese researchers writing in the International Journal of Web and Grid Services.
Akio Koyama of Yamagata University and colleagues there and at Yamagata College of Industry and Technology and the Fukuoka Institute of Technology explain that the population of the developed world is growing older, medical costs are rising, and there are not enough doctors to heal the elderly sick.”
Article
ScienceDaily, 9 December 2009
Abstract (Yamazaki 2009)
