Title :
Towards the ubiquitous healthcare by integrating active monitoring and intelligent cloud
Author :
Ho, Chen-Shie ; Chiang, Kuo-Cheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Healthcare Adm., Oriental Inst. of Technol., Taipei, Taiwan
fDate :
Nov. 30 2010-Dec. 2 2010
Abstract :
Personal disease management and prevention are essential for promoting the healthy community. How to establish the health promotion environment becomes an attractive topic in nowadays. In this paper, we investigate the approaches of patient monitoring and care under the cloud-based telecare system. By considering the scenarios for fixed and mobile users, the cost-effective health promoting methods are proposed and simple experiments are conducted verify the effectiveness of the methods.
Keywords :
cloud computing; health care; patient monitoring; ubiquitous computing; cloud-based telecare system; cost-effective health promoting methods; health promotion environment; patient monitoring; personal disease management; ubiquitous healthcare; Hospitals; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Schedules; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Sciences and Convergence Information Technology (ICCIT), 2010 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8567-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-89-88678-30-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIT.2010.5711174