<p>With the rise of electronic health services, wireless body area network (WBAN) technology has attracted great international attention. The body area network can obtain human vital sign parameters in its natural state, and support applications in areas such as clinical diagnosis and treatment, emergency rescue and treatment, and health information services. This article introduces the concept of body area network and the electronic medical architecture of body area network, summarizes the advantages of body area network: in low data rate scenarios, the system power consumption of body area network is much lower than that of other wireless communication standards, providing more choices for special frequency bands for medical equipment (500 MHz to 5 GHZ), thereby reducing the interference problem between different communications; proposing bottlenecks and hot spots of body area network: ultra-low power consumption requirements of sensor nodes and hardware resource constraints with limited computing power, and data security protection problems in body area network sensor nodes; the application of body area network in emergency scenarios was analyzed, and the hot spots of body area network research in the field of emergency were summarized and predicted: the development of ultra-low-power chips, wearable wireless nodes, intelligent medical terminals, health and monitoring instruments and other devices and equipment.</p>