Paolo Bonato holds many titles: Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Boston’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital; assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School; chair of the 2008 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems. Bonato's work focuses on technology like wearable technology and robotics for the rehabilitation of disabled people.

According to an interview with Scientific American, Bonato puts medical body area networks into three groups:

"Those used to monitor a patient’s general health or 'wellness,' those measuring the health of the elderly, and those used to monitor patients with long-term medical conditions such as Parkinson’s disease or epilepsy," Bonato said. “Some conditions could be monitored in the field,” he told SA. “We can’t put everyone in medical facilities.”

For more on MBANs, dedicated wireless healthcare, GE and Bonato, read this article from Scientific American