EC Clinical and Medical Case Reports

Mini Review Volume 6 Issue 4 - 2023

Advanced Wearable Devices in Healthcare

VR Singh1* and Kanika Singh2

1Professor, LF-IEEE, Chair, IEEE EMBS/IMS, Former Director-grade- Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

2SM-IEEE, Vice Chair, IEEE-EMBS/IMS, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea

*Corresponding Author: VR Singh, Professor, LF-IEEE, Chair, IEEE EMBS/IMS, Former Director-grade- Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India.
Received: January 25, 2023; Published: March 16, 2023



Wearable devices are very important in health care applications for better and effective use, to be utilized at faster speed. With the development of science, newer and newer designs of wearable devices are being evolved, for advanced applications. Different types of new wearable devices are described here for health care applications, with future impacts.

Keywords: Device; Wearable Device; Skin-Based System; Smart Systems; Nano-Designs

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