Abstract-In recent times, there has been a tectonic shift in the manner through which medical services are being rendered and the organization of the practice of Medicine as a whole. This tremendous diversification in the techniques employed for medical service delivery has noticeably been achieved through the integration of Engineering with medical sciences and the efficient latch of Medicine on constant improvements across the field of Computer and Electronic Engineering. Treatment of patients, medical research, education, disease tracking and monitoring of public health have been efficiently optimized through innovations in Engineering. To this effect, medical practices in advanced countries have now transitioned from being largely one-to-one/human-to-human interactivity to a characteristic distributed healthcare delivery system whereby patients can receive both remote health advice as well as remote medical treatments usually through electronic gadgets operating within a standardized Sensor Network (SN) architecture. This paper seeks to explore the concept behind Sensor Networks, the technology framework, its application in the field of Electronic Medicine, prospects, challenges, ethical issues and a thorough analysis of the socio-economic impact of this new application of Electronic and Computer Engineering in Medicine
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