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Bio-Medical Application of WBAN: Trends and Examples

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Many national health services struggle in the face of financial resource constraints and shortages of skilled labor. The cost of healthcare delivery is steadily on an upward trend. US health care spending is estimated at approximately 16% of the GDP [1]. This upward trend is expected to continue, with projections that the healthcare share of the GDP reaches 19.5% by 2017. Health care spending in other OECD countries is projected to consume up to 16% of GDP. As a result, the pressure on healthcare systems to step up efforts in cost containment and efficiency improvement keeps growing. Consensus about the main determinants of expenditure is not complete but revolves generally around cost drivers such as rising income and patient expectations; demographic change, in particular the aging of population; and new technologies.

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  1. Holst Centre, IMEC, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Julien Penders

  2. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Kapeldreef 75, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Chris van Hoof

  3. Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Bert Gyselinckx

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Penders, J., van Hoof, C., Gyselinckx, B. (2011). Bio-Medical Application of WBAN: Trends and Examples. In: Yoo, HJ., van Hoof, C. (eds) Bio-Medical CMOS ICs. Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6597-4_8

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