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Pervasive Health and Regulatory Frameworks
Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics, 2015
Pervasive health deals with the application of pervasive computing for health and wellness management and its developments should be subject of regulatory oversight. The paper presents a general overview of pervasive health concepts and applications, and aims to verify the level of conformity of current developments with existing regulatory frameworks.
Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Medicine and Healthcare, 2019
Pervasive mobile health is mobile health that provides healthcare services that are accessible regardless of time and place where patients can continuously be connected through their smart mobile devices. It offers healthcare providers a more comprehensive perspective of patients' conditions and thus aids in achieving complex healthcare goal(s) such as building lasting relationships with patients. The service can be further extended to accommodate customers' participation in health and healthcare processes to improve healthcare services by extending roles of patients. The advancement of the web technologies, especially social networks, push e-health to embrace mobile devices (m-health) and personalize customer-centric services with a possibility to extend and improve services by enabling active participation of patients, patients' families, and the community at large in healthcare processes and personal health decision making. This chapter addresses some important concep...
Pervasive Healthcare 2010: Two Perspectives
2011
Abstract The second Pervasive Health column presents a retrospective of the most recent International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Healthcare). The descriptions come from two perspectives: one from the technical program chair and one from an attendee and presenter.
Pervasive Computing for Hospital, Chronic, and Preventive Care
Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction, 2011
An emerging area of great impact and significance is the application of pervasive computing technologies in healthcare. Pervasive healthcare refers to the set of technologies designed to seamlessly integrate health education, interventions, and monitoring technology into our everyday lives, regardless of space and time. This approach can increase both the coverage and quality of care. Over the last decade, pervasive computing solutions for healthcare have become increasingly prevalent in both research and commercial efforts. This survey analyzes a variety of research projects and commercial solutions devoted to understanding, designing, and implementing pervasive healthcare applications in support of preventive care, hospital care, and chronic care.
Health-enabling technologies for pervasive health care: on services and ICT architecture paradigms
Informatics for Health and Social Care, 2008
Our societies are changing worldwide. Life expectancy has increased in many societies and this increase is often related to an increase in the relative amount of elderly persons. Health-enabling technologies are information and communication technologies for creating sustainable conditions for self-sufficient and self-determined lifestyles. Sensor-enhanced health information systems play a major role in this context. The question is discussed, whether health-enabling technologies for pervasive health care can be regarded as a pivotal field for future medical informatics research and education.
Introduction to the special section on Pervasive Healthcare
Computer Communications, 2012
Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Pervasive Healthcare P ERVASIVE healthcare may be defined from two perspectives: first, as the application of pervasive computing-or ubiquitous computing, proactive computing, ambient intelligence-technologies for healthcare, health, and wellness management; second, as making healthcare available everywhere, anytime-pervasively. Essentially, pervasive healthcare addresses those technologies and concepts that integrate healthcare more seamlessly to our everyday life, wherever we are. Weiser, the father of the ubiquitous computing, stated "the most profound technologies are those that disappear" [1]. Pervasive computing may be considered as the opposite to virtual reality: While in virtual reality the user enters the world created by computers, in pervasive computing, it is the computing that enters the physical world and bridges the gap between the virtual and physical worlds. This bridging is perhaps best described by means of its three most important enabling technologies: ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous communication, and intelligent user-friendly interfaces. Ubiquitous computing refers to the concepts like disappearing computer, "when they are everywhere," and pervasive computing, and means integration of computing power (microprocessors) and sensing (sensors) into anything, including not only traditional computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), printers, etc., but also everyday objects like white goods, toys, houses, furniture, or even paint ("smart dust"). Ubiquitous communication, in turn, means enabling anytime, anywhere communication of anything with anything else, not only people but also artifacts such as those listed above. Central technologies in ubiquitous communication are ad-hoc networking and wireless communication technologies-including low-power low-range communications. Intelligent user-friendly interfaces enable natural interaction and control of the environment by the human "users," or inhabitants of the ambient environment. The interfaces support natural communication (speech, gestures), take into account user preferences, personality, and usage context, and enable multisensory interaction. The envisioned pervasive computing infrastructure, hence, provides a seamless environment of computing, networking, and user interfaces. The infrastructure is aware: It has senses and it has the required intelligence to interpret the sensory information-it is context-aware. The advances in these technologies during the last decade have already changed our daily life in many ways. Today, we are ubiquitously connected to our friends, colleagues, and information sources with our cellular phones. Our digital cameras may
Strategies for Inclusion in the Design of Pervasive Computing for Health and Wellbeing
IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2019
& PARTICIPATORY DESIGN HAS become a popular method in pervasive computing for health and wellbeing. Involving end users as participants in the design of a technology helps to ensure feasibility, acceptability, and usability-key factors that promote the uptake of pervasive computing for improving health. These factors are particularly important for emerging technologies, as we are still learning how they fit into users' lives. Pervasive computing researchers have a unique opportunity to include many voices in influencing the design and implementation of emerging technologies. Approaching the conceptualization of pervasive systems, applications, and use cases as inclusively as possible will