Enabling personalized and preventive healthcare through intelligent embedded systems

The significance of information and communication technologies has not only transformed the operations of many traditional industries, but has also made a solid impact on healthcare and medical sectors. Health is a critical factor affecting the production of labor and the process of social development in communities, not only on personal well-being. Moreover, information technology applied in health and medicine addresses the efficiency problem and quality management in the healthcare system which is urgent under the background of aging population, means of medical care and treatment becoming uproariously expensive, the medicine safety lush in the world and the contrast of medical technology progress among various countries and regions becoming larger . In the recent years, with the development of embedded, wearable and cyber-physical systems, a multitude of intelligent embedded systems has been implemented in personalized and preventive healthcare, such as application of home-based health monitoring services, implementation of telemedicine, progression of ambient assisted living, support of wellness services, empowerment of elder monitoring services, and further effort in high-risk patients management and quality of life enhancement.