Introduction: The aim of the TELEKAT project (‘Telehomecare, chronic patients and the integrated healthcare system’) is to develop and test a preventive home monitoring concept across sectors, enabling patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to avoid readmission to hospital and perform self-monitoring and to maintain rehabilitation activities in their homes. COPD patients wit...

The proactive development in electronic health (e-health) has introduced seemingly endless number of applications such as telemedicine, electronic records, healthcare score cards, healthcare monitoring etc. Yet, these applications confront the key challenges of network dependence and medical personnel necessity, which hinders the development of universality of e-health services. To mitigate suc...

Pervasiveness of location acquisition technologies such as GPS, GSM, and Wi-Fi are growing swiftly. This opens the doors to use these technologies for ease and advancement in the lives of human. Human daily routine trajectory activities like visiting different places (e.g., Office, Restaurant, and Sports Club) for performing particular tasks have significant impacts on life. In this paper, we p...

-------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------------------------------------Using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in health care system has yielded a tremendous effort in recent years. However, in most of these researches, tasks like sensor data processing, health state decisions making and emergency messages sending are completed by a ...

Technology plays the major role in healthcare system, not only for recording parameters through sensory devices but also in communicating, recording and displaying the measured parameter. It is very important to monitor various medical parameters and post operational data. To access the patient’s medical parameters in local and remote area, healthcare communication using Internet of Things (IoT...

‘Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring System (PHMS)’ is one of the important pervasive computing applications aimed at providing healthcare services to all the people through mobile communication devices. Pervasive computing devices are resource constrained devices such as battery power, memory, processing power and bandwidth. In pervasive environment data privacy is a key issue. In this application...

OBJECTIVES It is important to monitor the healthcare utilization of patients at the national level to make evidence-based policy decisions and manage the nation's healthcare sector. The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) has run a Healthcare Utilization Monitoring System (HUMS) since 2008. The objective of this paper is to introduce HIRA's HUMS. METHODS This study described t...

Many countries around the globe are investing on e-healthcare increasingly, which offers tremendous benefits to all stakeholders in healthcare. Nevertheless, this technology introduces unprecedented privacy concerns toward patients and raise more uncertainty among them to use e-healthcare for monitoring their vital signs. These concerns necessitate finding scientific solutions, which enable e-h...

Throughout the healthcare domain, paper records and forms are being supplanted by electronic records, which are now routinely transmitted over intranets (within organizations), extranets (between organizations) and the Internet (to multiple organizations, worldwide). The potential for greater efficiency, lower costs and enhanced quality of care afforded by electronic versus paper-based records ...