The phenomenon of an aging society has derived problems such as shortage of medical resources, rising healthcare costs and reduction of quality in healthcare services. Pervasive healthcare aims to alleviate these problems, but many issues remain to be resolved. This paper presents a system called CARA (Context Aware Real-time Assistant) whose design goals are to address these issues in a pervas...

The main objective of this paper is to present a reusable architecture for message exchange in pervasive healthcare environments meant to be generally applicable to different applications in the healthcare domain. This architecture has been designed by integrating different concepts and technologies of ubiquitous computing, software agents, and openEHR archetypes, in order to provide interopera...

Connected healthcare system is one of the most critical Internet Things (IoT) applications offering numerous services. But it requires next-generation technologies to collude with IoT standards provide prompt end-user Thus, a data-centric network architecture like, Named Data Network (NDN) can be effective tackle concerns related communication in connected healthcare. In this article, we propos...

Realising the vision of pervasive healthcare will generate new challenges to system security. Such challenges are fundamentally different from issues and problems that we face in centralised approaches as well as nonclinical scenarios. In this paper, we reflect upon our experiences in the HealthAgents project wherein a prototype system was developed and a novel approach employed that supports d...

This paper discusses pervasive computing work in the transition from traditional health care programs to personalised health systems (pHealth). A chronological guided transition survey is discussed to highlight trends in medicine describing their most recent developments about health care systems. Future trends in this interdisciplinary techno-medical area are described as research goals. Parti...

The healthcare system is important due to its focus on human care and its interference with human lives. In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid rise in e-healthcare technologies such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the importance of emergency detection and response. Cloud computing is one of the new approaches that can handle some of the challenges of smart healthcare in terms of se...

Novel information and communication technologies enable the construction of systems that allow the provision of new healthcare services anywhere, at any time, and to anyone. Since these healthcare systems may offer their healthcare records in different electronic formats, the openEHR foundation developed a dual model to achieve semantic interoperability between these systems. In this paper we p...

This paper presents an envisioned use of pervasive computing to enhance the quality of life for people with cognitive disabilities and their caregivers. We briefly describe common circumstances that prevent people with cognitive disabilities from achieving the level of independence they desire. We then present a model of distributed support that can help people to safely live more independent a...

Our world is caught in the terrible cycle of poverty, illiteracy, violence, and devastating disease. Countries have been subject to the weighty challenge inherent in addressing the recklessly growing population, pervasive unemployment, rising longevity, the burden of diseases, insurgencies, and political insecurity (1). Although healthcare systems have improved dramatically during recent years ...