Applying Pervasive Computing in an Architecture for Homecare Environments

Every year the queues in publics and privates hospitals grows due to, among others, the increasing of the world population and the delay in the patients attendance. This is a serious problem faced by administrators of hospitals whose believe that it is increasingly difficult to offer quality service to those who search for it. One of the ways to decrease these queues is through the development of homecare systems that ensure the patient to receive the clinic treatment directly in his house. These kind of systems would help to decrease the queues and consequently, would improve the attendance of those who goes to the hospitals looking for assistance. Considering this, we present in this paper the modelling of an architecture for pervasive systems to be applied in homecare environments. The pervasive systems developed from this modelling aim to improve the services provided by healthcare professionals in the treatment of patients that are located in their houses. The architecture uses concepts of pervasive computing to provide access to information anytime and wherever the user is, once a homecare environment has a high level of dynamicity of the involved. The knowledge representation of the environment needed in the modelling of the architecture is made through ontologies due to the possibility of reuse of the information stored, as well as the interoperability of information among different computational devices.