In wireless health monitoring, healthcare professionals will make decisions based on knowledge derived from multiple sets of informational items such as patient’s medical history, current vital signs, medical knowledge, and specific patient conditions. In this chapter, we discuss medical decision making process by focusing on devices of healthcare professionals, requirements and functions of healthcare professionals, what to do when something goes wrong, and, how to manage cognitive load. We also present a monitoring system with four components to monitor generation, transmission, processing and impacts of various alerts. Finally, how the medical decisions may be made in the future is presented.
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Varshney, U. (2009). Medical Decision Making. In: Pervasive Healthcare Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0215-3_7
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