PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Andrea Aliverti
TI  - Wearable technology: role in respiratory health and disease
AID  - 10.1183/20734735.008417
DP  - 2017 Jun 01
TA  - Breathe
PG  - e27--e36
VI  - 13
IP  - 2
4099  - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/13/2/e27.short
4100  - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/13/2/e27.full
SO  - Breathe2017 Jun 01; 13
AB  - In the future, diagnostic devices will be able to monitor a patient’s physiological or biochemical parameters continuously, under natural physiological conditions and in any environment through wearable biomedical sensors. Together with apps that capture and interpret data, and integrated enterprise and cloud data repositories, the networks of wearable devices and body area networks will constitute the healthcare’s Internet of Things. In this review, four main areas of interest for respiratory healthcare are described: pulse oximetry, pulmonary ventilation, activity tracking and air quality assessment. Although several issues still need to be solved, smart wearable technologies will provide unique opportunities for the future or personalised respiratory medicine.Smart wearable technologies provide unique opportunities for assessing and monitoring respiratory function http://ow.ly/BHXY30cEfBl