The healthcare industry has witnessed significant transformations in e-health services by using mobile-edge computing (MEC) and blockchain to facilitate operations. Many MEC-blockchain-based schemes have been proposed, but some critical technical challenges still remain, such as low Quality of Services (QoS), data privacy, system security vulnerabilities. In this article, we propose a new decen...

Nowadays due to technological advance and its direct impact on the quality of human life, addressing the issue of health and its determinants is very important. Maintaining public health is one of the most fundamental issues in each community. The aim of the study was to survey relationship between dependence on modern communication tools (internet and mobile phones) and psychological well-bein...

Patients under health treatments that involve long stays at a hospital or health center (e.g. cancer, organ transplants and severe burns), tend to get bored or depressed because of the lack of social interaction with family and friends. Such a situation also affects the evolution and effectiveness of their treatments. In many cases, the solution to this problem involves extra challenges, since ...

Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) are playing an important role in the ongoing revolution of the health-care system, introducing the domain of the so-called m-Health. The integration of BSN applications with Cloud-computing technologies is an emerging approach, promising to favor the diffusion of many m-Health services in real life. Among them, motor rehabilitation is one of the application areas whe...

This study looks at how an e-Health System can reduce morbidity (poor health) in unreached communities. The e-Health system combines affordable sensors and Body Area Networking technology with mobile health concepts and is called a Portable Health Clinic. The health clinic is portable because all the medical devices fit inside a briefcase and are carried to unreached communities by a healthcare...

With the emergence of electronic medical information, mobile health service has been becoming increasingly popular in healthcare. Customers usually have to disclose some of their personal information and preferences for personalized usage of mobile health service. Accordingly, as the negative consequences of the personalized services, consumers’ privacy concern has become an important predictor...

Nowadays, several research studies point up that an active lifestyle is essential for physical and mental health benefits. Mobile phones have greatly influenced people’s habits and attitudes also in the way they exercise. Our research work is mainly focused on investigating how to exploit mobile technologies to favour people’s exertion experience. To this end, we developed an exertion framework...

In the last years, mobile agents are gaining great attention as a new concept for developing and implementing mobile and distributed applications. However, very little work has taken place in defining concepts and notations to model mobile agents. In this paper, we present an approach to model and to implement mobile agents. This approach is materialized by a UML notation, called MA-UML for mod...

Data sharing between mobile apps that are co-located in a smartphone may lead to synergistic benefits to the user especially in the health-care domain. Mobile apps that monitor and control user behavior can interact to engage the user into a healthy schedule over a long term. In the current app development paradigm, apps are being developed individually and agnostic of each other. To enable int...