Title page -- Preface -- Message from the organizers -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Health in the Information and Knowledge Economy Age - A European Perspective -- Introduction to User Needs, Technological Concepts and Market Trends -- Executive Summary -- New Concepts and Technologies in Home Care and Ambulatory Monitoring -- MyHeart: Fighting Cardiovascular Disease by Preventive Lifestyle and Early Diagnosis -- Health0: A New Health and Lifestyle Management Paradigm -- How Wearable Technologies Will Impact the Future of Health Care -- World-Wide Technical Overview -- Executive Summary -- Optimizing Workflow and Knowledge in Healthcare through Innovation -- I-Wear for Health Care and Wellness - State of the Art and Future Possibilities -- Research in Intelligent Biomedical Clothing vs. Realities in the European Textile Business -- Current and Future R&D Activities of the EC-IST Programme in eHealth -- Interactive Textiles for Warrior Systems Applications -- Challenges of Ambulatory Physiological Sensing -- Driver Monitoring - New Challenges for Smart Sensor-Based Systems -- Market Research on Garment-Based "Wearables" and Biophysical Monitoring and a New Monitoring Method -- Smart Wearable Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems -- Executive Summary -- New Paradigms in Telemedicine: Ambient Intelligence, Wearable, Pervasive and Personalized -- The LifeShirt: A Multi-Function Ambulatory System Monitoring Health, Disease, and Medical Intervention in the Real World -- Body Area Network - A Key Infrastructure Element for Patient-Centered Telemedicine -- Contact Centers, Pervasive Computing and Telemedicine: A Quality Health Care Triangle -- Research and Development of Smart Wearable Health Applications: The Challenge Ahead -- On-Body Diagnosis for Wearable Systems Serving Biomedical Needs.

Communication and Interoperability for Serial Comparison in Continuous Health Care - The New Challenges -- Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: The MobiHealth Project -- Development of Electronic Textiles for U.S. Military Protective Clothing Systems -- Smart Wearable and Implantable Disease Management Systems -- Executive Summary -- Wearable and Implantable Monitoring Systems: 10 Years Experience at University of Ulster -- Artificial Kinesthetic Systems for Telerehabilitation -- Implantable Medical Devices: Current Status and Future Developments within the Healthy-Aims Project -- The Role of Implantable Sensors for Management of Heart Failure -- EvoCare: A New Standard in Tele-Therapy -- Biomedical Clothing -- Executive Summary -- e-Health and Quality of Life: The Role of the Wearable Motherboard -- Wearable System for Vital Signs Monitoring -- Telemonitoring of Vital Parameters with Newly Designed Biomedical Clothing -- Strain Sensing Fabric for Hand Posture and Gesture Monitoring -- Wearable Textile Biofeedback Systems: Are They Too Intelligent for the Wearer? -- Potential Applications of Smart Clothing Solutions in Health Care and Personal Protection -- Body Motion Capture for Activity Monitoring -- An e-Textile System for Motion Analysis -- Round Table Debate -- New Solutions for Personalised Health Management: Citizens' Needs, Healthcare Changes, and Market Perspectives - Round Table Debate -- Smart Fibers and Fabrics: The Challenges to Wearable Health -- Executive Summary -- Smart Fabrics: Integrating Fiber Optic Sensors and Information Networks -- A Feasibility Study of Yarns and Fibers with Annexed Electronic Functions: The ARIANNE Project -- Development of Textile-Based High-Tech Products: The New Challenge -- Smart and Hybrid Materials: Perspectives for Their Use in Textile Structures for Better Health Care -- Smart Textiles.

Author Index.