Pervasive healthcare is an emerging area with its research intensification in recent years. There are a good number of new projects and many technological advances reported in literature, but the current scenario is still far away from an everyday life fulfilled with pervasive healthcare systems. The main goal of this paper is to present the main design issues of a pervasive healthcare assistiv...

‘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...

OBJECTIVE This paper discusses the evolution of pervasive healthcare from its inception for activity recognition using wearable sensors to the future of sensing implant deployment and data processing. METHODS We provide an overview of some of the past milestones and recent developments, categorized into different generations of pervasive sensing applications for health monitoring. This is fol...

The past decade has witnessed tremendous improvements in an expanding number of computing capabilities -sensors, advanced analytics, networks, data infrastructure, advanced imaging, and cyberphysical systems -that have, and will continue to, revolutionize health research, and healthcare, with resulting improvements in health and wellness. As the cost of healthcare, the prevalence of chronic dis...

Nowadays society is demanding more and more smart healthcare services that allow monitoring patient status in a non-invasive way, anywhere and anytime. Thus, healthcare applications are currently facing important challenges guided by the u-health (ubiquitous health) and p-health (pervasive health) paradigms. New emerging technologies can be combined with other widely deployed ones to develop su...

Pervasive computing has emerged as a viable solution capable of providing technology-driven assistive living for elderly. The pervasive healthcare system, CARA(Context Aware Real-time Assistant), is designed to provide personalized healthcare services for elderly in a timely and appropriate manner by adapting the healthcare technology to fit in with normal activities of the elderly and working ...

Pervasive environments introduce a technological paradigm shift, giving a new impetus to the functionality of applications, overcoming applicability barriers of legacy applications. Electronic healthcare records management can clearly benefit from the new challenges brought by this emerging technology, due to its low cost and high percentage of user adoption. Still, the sensitivity of medical d...

Pervasive computing, in technological sense, presents a fusion of various geographically scattered devices and software modules integrated into systems, very diverse regarding the purpose, architecture, and the used technology. Ubiquitous computing is one of the most challenging areas of the distributed (medical) informatics today. Instead of the literal meaning of the term ubiquitous, which me...