We present an architectural framework for supporting conformance and interoperability testing among distributed healthcare systems. Healthcare organizations such as hospitals employ information systems that are composed of multiple, distributed applications. These applications need to interoperate seamlessly. This presents a challenging testing problem. We describe in detail a typical healthcar...

Since the first special issue on “Telemedicine and Applications” was published in April 2000, advances in broadband network communication technology both wired and wirelesses have expanded telemedicine to a pressing need of high speed networks in medicine and public health care. Recent achievements in these fields have helped to better understanding of computing and communication infrastructure...

Increasing demand and costs for healthcare, exacerbated by ageing populations and a great shortage of doctors, are serious concerns worldwide. Consequently, this has generated a great amount of motivation in providing better healthcare through smarter healthcare systems. Management and processing of healthcare data are challenging due to various factors that are inherent in the data itself such...

T he 9th International ACM/IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health 2015) was held from 20–23 May at the scenic Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. It had a total of 106 registrations, with 25 full papers and five short papers from around the world (see Figure 1). The conference showcased a wide variety of technology applications, methods, and st...

In this paper, we have focused to compare a variety of techniques, approaches and different tools and its impact on the healthcare sector. The goal of data mining application is to turn that data are facts, numbers, or text which can be processed by a computer into knowledge or information. The main purpose of data mining application in healthcare systems is to develop an automated tool for ide...

Received May10 th , 2013 Revised Jun 30 th , 2013 Accepted Jul 26 th , 2013 Cloud computing supports mobile and collaborative applications and services. Increased storage, high automation, flexibility, and reduced cost are a few advantages cloud computing offers. Using cloud computing can improve healthcare services delivery for patients. In this paper, the categories and service models of clou...

Healthcare applications are well thought-out as interesting fields for WSN where patients can be examine using wireless medical sensor networks. Inside the hospital or extensive care surroundings there is a tempting need for steady monitoring of essential body functions and support for patient mobility. Recent research cantered on patient reliable communication, mobility, and energy-efficient r...

Historically, healthcare has been mainly provided in a reactive manner that limits its usefulness. With progress in sensor technologies, the instrumentation of the world has offered unique opportunities to better observe patients physiological signals in order to provide healthcare in a more proactive manner. To reach this goal, it is essential to be able to analyze patient data and turn it int...