To provide healthcare to large heterogeneous populations, one envisions new ways of remote healthcare monitoring in the form of ubiquitous and pervasive healthcare systems. However, the widespread deployment of this technology will depend on the extent to which security and privacy can be guaranteed. In this article, we propose a set of efficient, practical and scalable cryptographic protocols ...

Our complex healthcare systems are fragmented, and their functioning, both in terms of efficiency and quality, are plagued by multiple discontinuities. eHealth has the potential to ease transitions between the many settings and stakeholders of healthcare. eHealth can improve the continuity of healthcare information flow, can facilitate the re-engineering of care processes so that they become mu...

The importance of patients’ active participation in healthcare delivery and disease management has been highlighted in various studies, especially for chronic patients. Overall, patient empowerment, guidance and safety constitute concrete goals in modern healthcare systems. To this end, mobile computing technologies can enable to realize such services in a pervasive manner, tailored to each pat...

In the advent of pervasive computing technologies, the ubiquitous healthcare information system, or U-health system, has emerged as an innovative avenue for many healthcare management issues. Drawing upon practices in healthcare industry and conceptual developments in information systems research, this paper aims to explain the latent relationships amongst user-oriented factors that lead to ind...

Healthcare is one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy and providing cost-effective healthcare service to an aging population with a declining number of hospitals is a formidable challenge. Through recent technological advances it is now possible to migrate some of the services from centralized locations into the home. We describe a prototype architecture that we built to support novel...

New sensory technologies and smaller, more capable mobile devices open opportunities for pervasive computing in the healthcare sector. Patients as well as medical professionals are, from a information and communication technology (ICT) point of view, better equipped than ever before. Despite this, many hospitals and other healthcare service providers have yet to exploit the potential unleashed ...

In this article we examine how one of the most pervasive technological implementations in the healthcare domain--the alarm system--is used in anaesthesiology as part of patient monitoring. The utility and appropriateness of alarms in healthcare domains have been widely addressed in the literature. However, we argue that we still know little about the practical use of alarm systems in actual hea...

The pervasiveness of social media in modern communication has created increased liability for healthcare providers when trying to safeguard patients' protected health information (PHI). This article addresses a few of the most basic but pervasive ways, including "friending," "tagging," and "blogging," that PHI is unthinkingly shared on social media platforms and the precautions that providers c...

In the advent of pervasive computing technologies, the ubiquitous healthcare information system, or u-health system, has emerged as an innovative avenue for many healthcare management issues. Drawing upon practices in healthcare industry and conceptual developments in information systems research, this article aims to explain the latent relationships amongst user-oriented factors that lead to i...

This paper was inspired by preliminary discussions between NIST and members of the healthcare community who are impacted by the use of emerging information technology. Topics of discussion included the current state of standards work in the healthcare community, the requirements for security, information assurance and continuity-of-operations, as well as the critical need for information intero...