Survey of health care context models and prototyping of healthcare context framework

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  • Hamid Mcheick
  • Hicham Ajami
  • Zayan Elkhaled
چکیده

HealthCare system is considered a key element in ubiquitous computing, which means health care services are recommended at any time and at any places to monitor patients based on their context. This study aims to define a simple framework that could be guidelines when you start thinking about building a health context-awareness system in ubiquitous environment. This paper starts by defining the concept of context and then presenting a comprehensive list of context models. Outcome of the work of this research is an ontology healthcare model based on current context of patient which makes monitoring process more accurate. This study includes an Android application in order to prove the concept of this hypothesis. Author keywords HealthCare; pervasive computing; Context models; Context representation; Telemedicine; Health care frameworks; ACM Classification

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تاریخ انتشار 2016