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 disea...

During the past decade, many countries launched ambitious Electronic Health Record (EHR) programs with the objective to increase the quality of care while decreasing its cost. Pervasive healthcare aims itself at making healthcare information securely available anywhere and anytime, even in disconnected environments (e.g., at patient home). Current server-based EHR solutions badly tackle disconn...

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

Pervasive computing is allowing healthcare to move from care by professionals in hospital to self-care, mobile care, and at-home care. The pervasive healthcare system, CARA(Context Aware Real-time Assistant), is designed to provide personalized healthcare services for chronic patients in a timely and appropriate manner by adapting the healthcare technology to fit in with normal activities of th...

This book chapter provides a systematic analysis of the communication technologies used in healthcare and homecare, their applications and the utilization of the mobile technologies in the healthcare sector by using in addition case studies to highlight the successes and concerns of homecare projects. There are several software applications, appliances, and communication technologies emerging i...

Introduction Prerequisites of the paper needs attention of the following concepts. “Wearable computing is will be the future technique” as quoted by Mark Weiser, the father of ubiquitous computing needs the technological aspect of Body Sensor Network (BSN) architecture for parameter monitoring in the drunken and medically affected strategy. This aims to set a standard for the development of com...

In many work settings, and especially in healthcare, work is distributed among many cooperating actors, who are constantly moving around and are frequently interrupted. In line with other researchers, we use the term pervasive computing to describe a computing infrastructure that supports work where users access a dynamic range of computing and software devices, where users can shift between de...

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) occurs during pregnancy due to an increased resistance to insulin caused by the growth of the baby. It appears after the 24th week of pregnancy and it is treated with diet counselling and insulin treatment. In this paper we present the complete implementation of a Pervasive Healthcare System (PHS) based on intelligent agents to support continuous monitoring o...

This paper proposes a new theory of multiparty session types with assertions based on symmetric sum types and demonstrates its applicability to collaborative workflows in healthcare systems for clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). The theory leads to a model-driven implementation of a prototype tool for CPGs which automatically generates deadlock-free distributed programs from user-friendly dec...

In fact, information systems are the foundation of new productivity sources, medical organizational forms, and erection of a global economy. IoT based healthcare systems play a significant role in ICT and have contribution in growth of medical information systems, which are underpinning of recent medical and economic development strategies. However, to take advantages of IoT, it is essential th...