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Transformation in Healthcare by Wearable Devices for Diagnostics and Guidance of Treatment

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Wearable devices offer a promise of immense impact on worldwide global health by offering the potential for non-invasive, constantly vigilant, and low-cost monitoring of individual condition and fundamental advances in guiding healthcare. The urgency of this objective for its individual and societal benefits will attract an expanding community of researchers from backgrounds in nearly every field of computing. This article describes the unprecedented benefits and opportunities for computing research in wearable devices and the multidisciplinary challenges that have not been encountered individually or combined together in previous research. This article is focused on providing guidance to the new community of healthcare in computing researchers who will both create a new field and forge transformative solutions for healthcare delivery to a worldwide population.

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    cover image ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
    ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare  Volume 1, Issue 1
    January 2020
    99 pages
    EISSN:2637-8051
    DOI:10.1145/3386261
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    Published: 02 March 2020
    Accepted: 01 August 2019
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    Published in HEALTH Volume 1, Issue 1

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