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Internet of Medical Things: The Next PC (Personal Care) Era

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Advances in wireless and semiconductor technology have enabled the health care revolution, leading to the emergence of the next personal care (PC) era with the Internet of Medical Things. This chapter will present a comprehensive telecare platform for the next-generation PC era, as well as various innovative biomedical system-on-a-chip (SoC) enablers. In section “Telehealth for the Next Personal Care (PC) Era” of this chapter, we will introduce a fourth-generation synchronous telecare platform that provides 24-h real-time patient monitoring, emergency reminders, and abnormal condition alarms implemented at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). We will demonstrate the efficacy and efficiency of the telecare platform by applying it to three case studies. The first case study shows that a nursing-led transitional care combining telehealth care and discharge planning can significantly help family caregivers successfully transition from hospital to home. The second and third case studies together show that a fourth-generation synchronous telecare program can further provide both cost-saving and clinical benefits. In section “Biomedical SoC Solutions for the Next Personal Care (PC) Era” of this chapter, we will demonstrate a variety of CMOS biomedical SoC solutions enabling the next PC era, including miniature implementations operating outside and through the body, and implantable solutions inside the body. A CMOS assay SoC for rapid blood screening and a portable gas-chromatography microsystem for volatile compound detection operating outside the body will first be introduced. After that, we will present a 0.5-V biomedical SoC for an intra-body communication system. Three implantable wireless CMOS biomedical prototypes, a release-on-demand drug delivery SoC, a pain-control-on-demand batteryless SoC, and a batteryless remotely controlled locomotive SoC, will then be introduced. Finally, we will present several SoC solutions that perform energy-efficient physiological signal processing for real-time biomedical applications in the next PC era.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, EE2-344, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

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  2. Telehealth Center, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, 100, Taiwan

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  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, MD-518, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Tsung-Te Liu

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, EE2-217, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Shey-Shi Lu

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Chen, LG., Ho, YL., Liu, TT., Lu, SS. (2017). Internet of Medical Things: The Next PC (Personal Care) Era. In: Kyung, CM., Yasuura, H., Liu, Y., Lin, YL. (eds) Smart Sensors and Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33201-7_11

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