The last decade has witnessed a rapid surge of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices for healthcare. One key development in this area is implantable in vivo monitoring and intervention devices. In addition, the concept of wearable/wireless computing is quickly finding its way to clinically related applications. While the problem of long-term stability and biocompatibility is being addressed, several promising prototypes are starting to emerge for managing patients with acute diabetes, for treatment of epilepsy and other debilitating neurological disorders and for monitoring of patients with chronically cardiac diseases. Despite the technological developments of sensing and monitoring devices, issues related to system integration, sensor miniaturization, low-power sensor interface circuitry design, wireless telemetric links and signal processing have still to be investigated. Moreover, issues related to Quality of Service (QoS), data encryption, multi-sensory data fusion, and decision support are active research topics. The aim of the workshop is to address general issues related to using wearable/wireless and implantable sensors and to bring together scientists from computing, electronics, bioengineering, medicine and industry in order to discuss the latest technological developments and clinical applications of body-sensor networks.
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