With an increasingly mobile society and the worldwide deployment of mobile and wireless networks, the wireless infrastructure can support many current and emerging healthcare applications. In this tutorial, we present pervasive healthcare applications and requirements, and discuss how the current and emerging wireless and mobile technologies can be used to support these applications.

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In this chapter, the authors describe a new framework for pervasive healthcare applications where the patient’s consent has a pivotal role. In their framework, patients are able to control the disclosure of their medical data. The patient’s consent is implicitly captured by the context in which his or her medical data is being accessed. Context is expressed in terms of workflows. The execution ...

Correspondence to: Dr. Oscar Mayora CREATE-NET Via alla Cascata 56D Trento, 38123 Italy E-mail: [email protected] During the past years there has been a growing research trend on investigating the use of pervasive computing technologies for their use in the healthcare domain. The research activity on this topic known as “Pervasive Health”, has been defined as a scientific discipline i...

Healthcare technology today is considerably different than it was 20 to 40 years ago. Yet, much of what is done by healthcare technology managers in support of medical technology has not changed. The tools and procedures still used by most clinical engineering services have evolved little to address some of the unique challenges posed by new healthcare technologies that are at once more pervasi...

In the context of pervasive healthcare systems there is a growing need of services that are constantly available to the patients accessing them. To address this issue, in this paper we present a distributed pervasive infrastructure that is capable of self-healing one or more of its parts when an external event causes a disruption of the service in the areas covered by the pervasive system. We u...

Computer Games are about to leave their “electronic shells” and enter the city. So-called Serious Pervasive Games (SPGs) [1] allow for hybrid – simultaneously physical and virtual experiences, applying technologies of ubiquitous computing, communication and “intelligent” interfaces. They begin to focus on non-entertaining purposes. The following article a) presents game design strategies as a m...

Various forms of pervasive computing environments are being deployed in an increasing number of areas including healthcare, home automation, and military. This evolution makes the development of pervasive computing applications challenging because it requires to manage a range of heterogeneous entities with a wide variety of functionalities. This paper presents Pantagruel, an approach to integr...

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 per...

Pervasive healthcare is a promising assisted-living solution for chronic patients. However, current cutting-edge communication technologies are not able to strictly meet the requirements of these applications, especially in case life-threatening events. To bridge this gap, paper proposes new architecture support indoor monitoring, with focus on epileptic Several novel elements introduced. The f...