The pervasive healthcare field would benefit from software development tools supporting rapid prototyping in order to evaluate the feasibility of novel approaches in healthcare by using technology. We introduce the lightweight framework Extended Advanced Context Sensing Evaluation Platform (EACSEP) for rapidly creating context-aware sensing prototypes within the pervasive healthcare domain. A s...

This article considers the early period of development of IVF in Ecuador, focusing on factors that shaped the decade after the nation's first successful IVF birth (1992–2002). It describes how a poorly resourced public healthcare sector compelled Ecuadorians towards private-sector medicine, which included assisted reproduction treatment, and how IVF clinics drew patients through the pervasive r...

Big Data as pervasive, disruptive, and innovation-driven technology are now a hot topic in academic and business fields. In particular, the healthcare industry is one of those most exposed to the organizational changes produced by the Big Data and Born Digital Data phenomena. Healthcare organizations have to adapt their organizations to manage an ever increasing amount of data affecting their a...

Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases affecting Australians and its prevalence continues to rise. Diabetes is therefore becoming a serious challenge for both the quality of healthcare and expenditure in the Australian healthcare system. The goal of this study is to investigate the development and application of DiaMonD – a diabetes monitoring device. Powered by pervasive technology so...

Diabetes is one of the leading chronic diseases affecting Australians and its prevalence continues to rise. Diabetes is therefore becoming a serious challenge for both the quality of healthcare and expenditure in the Australian healthcare system. The goal of this study is to investigate the development and application of DiaMonD – a diabetes monitoring device. Powered by pervasive technology so...

The range of pervasive computing technology available for use in healthcare continues to evolve, allowing for an increasing variety of wireless sensors, devices, and actuators to be cost effectively deployed in smart, context-aware environments. One area that is of compelling interest for the application of this technology is independent living of the elderly. An independent living environment ...

This chapter will survey pervasive computing with a look at how its constraint for transparency affects issues of resource management and security. The goal of pervasive computing is to render computing transparent, such that computing resources are ubiquitously offered to the user and services are proactively performed for a user without his or her intervention. The task of integrating computi...