Deployment of pHealth Services upon Always Best Connected Next Generation Network

This paper deals with the deployment of personalized healthcare (pHealth) services upon new networks supporting pervasive connectivity. A profiling scheme of two levels is introduced, where health status related attributes and preferences are included in the upper-level, named Service User Profile and communication attributes compose the lower-level, named Transport User Profiles. We manage pervasive connective by means of Always Best Connected paradigm for enhancing personalization within Next Generation Network architecture.