Classification of Pervasive Healthcare Systems

Author

Al-Hemairy, Mohamed ; Serhani, Mohamed Adel ; Atif, Yacine ; Amin, Saad

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Comput., Coventry Univ., Coventry, UK

fYear

2013

Firstpage

105

Lastpage

110

Abstract

The new concepts of ubiquitous computing are being integrated in healthcare technologies and led to the emergence of pervasive healthcare systems. This development is shifting the care that patients get to the comfort of their own homes. This paper surveys existing pervasive healthcare solutions including those developed in academia as well as commercial solutions from the industry sector. This paper also develops a set of criteria, which were used to classify and compare these solutions. These criteria are: integrity, confidentiality, mobility and context-awareness. We discuss some drawbacks of existing solutions, and propose future directions in pervasive healthcare. Finally, the paper draws some guidelines and best practices, which are predicted to shape future pervasive healthcare systems.

Keywords

health care; ubiquitous computing; context-awareness; health care confidentiality; health care integrity; health care mobility; pervasive healthcare system; ubiquitous computing; Biomedical monitoring; Medical services; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; context-awareness; non-intrusive solutions; pervasive healthcare; sensors; ubiquitous computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE), 2013 Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Abu Dhabi

ISSN

2161-1343

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5263-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DeSE.2013.27

Filename

7041100