Guest Editorial Special Issue on Sensors and Interfaces for Mobile Healthcare

Wearable devices for continuous health monitoring are a key novel technology for helping the transition to more proactive and affordable healthcare. They allow for closely monitoring about changes in human’ signs and provide medical feedback to help maintain an optimal health status. If integrated into a remote monitoring system, these devices can also provide medical alerts to personnel when life-threatening changes occur in patients. In addition, wearable devices can be used for health monitoring of patients in ambulatory settings as well as in healthy people to prevent diseases. New approaches in personalized medicine thank to wearable sensors can be used as a part of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, optimal maintenance of chronic conditions, supervised recoveries from acute events or surgical interventions, adherence to treatment guidelines (e.g., regular cardiovascular exercise), or effects on drug therapies (including check on elderly people actually taking their daily dose).