A Review of Health Monitoring Technologies and Services

Abstract

This paper presents detailed review of health monitoring technologies and services. Time-sensitive illness such as cardiovascular, respiratory, accident and injuries requires constant and close monitoring to avert complications and sudden death. Several researchers have surveyed health monitoring technologies addressing specific areas such as IoT-based, wearable-based, and smart-based health monitoring technologies. However, evidence from existing literature has proven that classifying and analyzing these systems into groups of interrelated works is a difficult task. To this end, this paper used narrative literature review approach to present the taxonomy of health monitoring technology and group research works related to health monitoring systems that share common attributes, features, and characteristics. Also, this paper presents the description of a health monitoring services. Finding from the review shows that the design approach of health monitoring systems are similar in terms of physiological monitoring, and patient tracking. However, the transmission protocols are not the same.