Framework for pervasive health monitoring

Recent years have shown impressive growth in the development of pervasive healthcare systems, which are primarily being designed to provide emergency and preventive healthcare to citizens anywhere/anytime using wired and wireless mobile technologies. This paper presents an e-healthcare framework with pervasive sensor network for the disabled and elderly people. A home healthcare server collects user health information and sends the data in case of emergency to a doctor or guardian in order to achieve a pervasive intelligent healthcare system. Beyond e-healthcare service, as a primitive application for pervasive healthcare service using mobile Internet, we studied the real-time health-monitoring service for the disabled and elderly people with an inexpensive and effective Web server. Preliminary results are presented in the context of a larger future integration with the pervasive healthcare framework.