The systematic review of public papers published in 2012-2018 demonstrated the present-day capabilities and standards of remote noninvasive functional diagnostics, as well as recent trends. Pinpointed are instrumental and methodical approaches providing a relatively higher quality and broader spectrum of the physiological measurements. There are still few papers describing chemical sensors, multimodal measurements, interconnecting sensors and methods of regularization. Robustness of real-time evaluations and accuracy of secondary parameters remain to be a bottleneck. Methods of location, thermography and speech furnish the largest diversity of physiological parameters. Radiolocation and ultrasonic location are distinguished by high tolerance of impacting factors. As a rule, the least organizational complexity features methods using video cameras.