Acoustic Based Footstep Detection in Pervasive Healthcare

Pervasive healthcare and citizen-centered care paradigm are moving the healthcare outside the hospital environment. Healthcare delivery is becoming more personalized and decentralized, focusing on prevention and proactive services with a complete view of health and wellbeing. The concept of wellness has been used to describe this holistic view of health, which focuses on physical, social, and mental well-being. Pervasive computing makes it possible to collect information and offer services anytime and anywhere. To support pervasive healthcare with wellness approaches, semantic interoperability is needed between all actors and information sources in the ecosystem. This study focuses on the domain of personal wellness and analyzes related concepts, relationships, and environments. As a result of this study, we have created an information model that focuses on the citizens’ perspectives and conceptualizations of personal wellness. The model has been created based on empirical research conducted with focus groups.

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Secured Framework for Pervasive Healthcare Monitoring Systems

International Journal on Soft Computing Artificial Intelligence and Applications ◽

10.5121/ijscai.2013.2203 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 39-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

N Rukma Rekha ◽

PrasadBabu M.S

Keyword(s):

Monitoring Systems ◽

Pervasive Healthcare ◽

Healthcare Monitoring

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Radio frequency identification (RFID) in pervasive healthcare

International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management ◽

10.1504/ijhtm.2009.023731 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 10 (1/2) ◽

pp. 119 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Christoph Thuemmler ◽

William Buchanan ◽

Amir Hesam Fekri ◽

Alistair Lawson

Keyword(s):

Radio Frequency ◽

Radio Frequency Identification ◽

Pervasive Healthcare ◽

Frequency Identification

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Towards a Chatbot Based Smart Pervasive Healthcare Medical Emergency Cases

Digital Health in Focus of Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine - Advances in Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-49815-3_17 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 149-153

Author(s):

Nourchène Ouerhani ◽

Ahmed Maalel ◽

Henda Ben Ghézela

Keyword(s):

Medical Emergency ◽

Pervasive Healthcare

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Seamless Access to Healthcare Folders with Strong Privacy Guarantees

Healthcare Delivery Reform and New Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-183-6.ch020 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 345-371

Author(s):

Tristan Allard ◽

Nicolas Anciaux ◽

Luc Bouganim ◽

Philippe Pucheral ◽

Romuald Thion

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Care ◽

Form Factor ◽

Flash Memory ◽

Database System ◽

Health Record ◽

Pervasive Healthcare ◽

Privacy Concerns ◽

Access Control Policies ◽

Security Guarantees

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 disconnected situations and fail in providing ultimate security guarantees for the patients. The solution proposed in this paper capitalizes on a new hardware device combining a secure microcontroller (similar to a smart card chip) with a large external Flash memory on a USB key form factor. Embedding the patient folder as well as a database system and a web server in such a device gives the opportunity to manage securely a healthcare folder in complete autonomy. This paper proposes also a new way of personalizing access control policies to meet patient’s privacy concerns with minimal assistance of practitioners. While both proposals are orthogonal, their integration in the same infrastructure allows building trustworthy pervasive healthcare folders.

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