Publications

The topics of integrative sensor networks, informatics and modeling bring together the tightly coupled and rapidly developing fields of biomedical and health informatics and body sensor networks. Biomedical and health informatics encompasses methods to extract and communicate information from data in order to impact health, healthcare, life sciences and biomedicine. Body sensor networks provide one means to measure the needed data, through continuous monitoring in both clinical and free-living environments. Developments in these areas were highlighted at two co-located conferences: the 2019 IEEE-EMBS International Conferences on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI'19) and Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN'19). BHI and BSN are long-standing IEEE EMBS conferences that provide a forum for researchers and leaders from academia, government and industry to share technical advances and new initiatives in these important areas. Through an open call for this special issue, eleven papers have been included for publication. The majority were presented in an initial form at the 2018 or 2019 BHI and BSN conferences. Nine of the papers were selected through a rigorous peer review. In addition, two keynote speakers from BHI'19 and BSN'19 have provided short position papers.