Title :
Preliminary Research on Wearable Healthcare in Ubiquitous Computing Age
Author :
Zhu, Jianxin ; Gao, Leina ; Zhang, Xinfang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan
Abstract :
The wearable healthcare in ubiquitous computing age is a new personalized medical paradigm in the future. It will play a significant role in illness prevention, early diagnosis or effective treatment, which can bring considerable benefits to the individual and society. This paper presents a conceptual model of pervasive wearable healthcare system and discusses the key technology. According to the current technology status, an application mode and a prototype of pervasive healthcare services is given. The research direction of the software and hardware is also indicated in the end.
Keywords :
health care; medical diagnostic computing; patient treatment; ubiquitous computing; conceptual model; illness prevention; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; personalized medical paradigm; pervasive wearable healthcare system; ubiquitous computing age; Biomedical monitoring; Computerized monitoring; Hardware; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Pervasive computing; Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computers; Wearable sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan, Hubei
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3336-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSSE.2008.1497
