Environmental Monitoring for Health and Wellness

McGrath, Michael J.; Scanaill, Cliodhna Ní

doi:10.1007/978-1-4302-6014-1_11

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“…In the future, we don't know if being diseased, other than experiencing aging-related symptoms of the body, would be only of negligence or there would be emerging diseases. Both the individual and geographical health-and disease-states' mapping, and delineating the individually and geographically possessed risks for certain diseases 73 would be possible.…”

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Medical Use of Sensor-Based Devices, the Debates Around and Implementation in Education

Adıgüzel

Valdez

Yürür

2018

Rep. Adv. Phys. Sci.

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Sensor-based diagnostics are increasing rapidly and in clinics, they can transform the health care as they will be in use out of clinics as well, namely, by the non-clinicians and people without expertise. The trade-off between the advantages and disadvantages of their implementation into the clinical settings should be decisive in their use, at the current state. Yet, disadvantages must be carefully worked out and tried to be eliminated in any case, while keeping the inborn benefits. Therefore, we would like to draw attention to the reliability and security risks of personal health data and associated concerns. We further discuss the related issues of sensor-based diagnostics, mobile health (mHealth) and eHealth. The debate starts with the current states of the rules and regulations. It is argued that there is prompt need for internationally consolidated solutions for vast device types and uses onto which the local needs may have to be implemented without violating the basic assets such as the inherent privacy rights of the users/patients. The resistance factors against the sensor-based healthcare devices and applications are also conferred. There are additionally data quality and assessment issues, and in relation to the data assessment, concerns that are associated with the psychological responses of the layman to the health data are mentioned. For these and more reasons, and finally for proper use and implementation of sensor-based tests and devices in the clinical settings, education of both professionals and non-professionals seems to be the key. All these require much work and maybe even more workforces to be allocated for the emerging, associated tasks. However, there are economic benefits, and beyond those, they bring new features in the health care that were deemed to be impossible. Besides, despite the apparent unethical use risks, they can result in better ethical practices, e.g., possible prevention of unnecessary tests on animals when similar test on organ-on-chips would be failing.

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Section: Final Remarksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Medical Use of Sensor-Based Devices, the Debates Around and Implementation in Education

Adıgüzel

Valdez

Yürür

2018

Rep. Adv. Phys. Sci.

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“…36 Existing probes are diverse in their formulation, with measurement applications ranging from the characterization of small molecules and ions to large macromolecules. Due to their noninvasive nature and relatively high sensitivity and specificity fluorescence based optical sensors, such as fiber optics, free fluorophores and fluorescent nanosensors are examples of excellent measurement technologies for characterizing biological environments.…”

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Enhancing cell and gene therapy manufacture through the application of advanced fluorescent optical sensors (Review)

Harrison

Chauhan

2017

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Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) are examples of future therapeutics that can be used to cure or alleviate the symptoms of disease, by repairing damaged tissue or reprogramming defective genetic information. However, despite the recent advancements in clinical trial outcomes, the path to wide-scale adoption of CGTs remains challenging, such that the emergence of a “blockbuster” therapy has so far proved elusive. Manufacturing solutions for these therapies require the application of scalable and replicable cell manufacturing techniques, which differ markedly from the existing pharmaceutical incumbent. Attempts to adopt this pharmaceutical model for CGT manufacture have largely proved unsuccessful. The most significant challenges facing CGT manufacturing are process analytical testing and quality control. These procedures would greatly benefit from improved sensory technologies that allow direct measurement of critical quality attributes, such as pH, oxygen, lactate and glucose. In turn, this would make manufacturing more robust, replicable and standardized. In this review, the present-day state and prospects of CGT manufacturing are discussed. In particular, the authors highlight the role of fluorescent optical sensors, focusing on their strengths and weaknesses, for CGT manufacture. The review concludes by discussing how the integration of CGT manufacture and fluorescent optical sensors could augment future bioprocessing approaches.

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“…Future trends and research/industrial perspectives may consider further integration of MEMS sensor technologies within devices and objects already used on a daily basis by people (e.g., smartphones); it would represent a kind of “everyday technology” for routinely monitoring activity and health, more and more in a multisensing and multimodal cloud framework [ 123 ]. The integration of MEMS sensor-based technologies would enable the continuous and integrated management of a huge number of different information, representing a smart ecosystem that is intended to “cohabit” and improve together with the enhancement of the computational performances of microprocessors.…”

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“…Reducing the requirement for conscious human action in the sensing process (e.g., calibration of devices) by means of well consistent and reliable detection, classification and prediction techniques will also represent a needed improvement to be addressed. In this framework, progress in the direction of high performance computing, cloud computing, big data analyses and so on will provide the key tools to make those scientific and technological breakthroughs possible [ 123 ].…”

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“…The rate of advancement in MEMS technologies is expected to accelerate [ 125 ], driven also by the growing commercial demand to understand and manage personal health and well-being and monitoring of environmental conditions [ 126 ]. New MEMS sensors will have higher selectivity and sensitivity also with a higher stability and capability to classify the events and avoid false alarms [ 123 ].…”

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MEMS Sensor Technologies for Human Centred Applications in Healthcare, Physical Activities, Safety and Environmental Sensing: A Review on Research Activities in Italy

Ciuti

Ricotti

Menciassi

et al. 2015

Sensors

131

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Over the past few decades the increased level of public awareness concerning healthcare, physical activities, safety and environmental sensing has created an emerging need for smart sensor technologies and monitoring devices able to sense, classify, and provide feedbacks to users’ health status and physical activities, as well as to evaluate environmental and safety conditions in a pervasive, accurate and reliable fashion. Monitoring and precisely quantifying users’ physical activity with inertial measurement unit-based devices, for instance, has also proven to be important in health management of patients affected by chronic diseases, e.g., Parkinson’s disease, many of which are becoming highly prevalent in Italy and in the Western world. This review paper will focus on MEMS sensor technologies developed in Italy in the last three years describing research achievements for healthcare and physical activity, safety and environmental sensing, in addition to smart systems integration. Innovative and smart integrated solutions for sensing devices, pursued and implemented in Italian research centres, will be highlighted, together with specific applications of such technologies. Finally, the paper will depict the future perspective of sensor technologies and corresponding exploitation opportunities, again with a specific focus on Italy.

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Environmental Monitoring for Health and Wellness

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

Medical Use of Sensor-Based Devices, the Debates Around and Implementation in Education

Medical Use of Sensor-Based Devices, the Debates Around and Implementation in Education

Enhancing cell and gene therapy manufacture through the application of advanced fluorescent optical sensors (Review)

MEMS Sensor Technologies for Human Centred Applications in Healthcare, Physical Activities, Safety and Environmental Sensing: A Review on Research Activities in Italy

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