• DocumentCode
    1704979
  • Title

    Healthcare, medical support and consultancy applications and services for mobile devices

  • Author

    Reyss, Alexandra ; Balandin, Sergey

  • Author_Institution
    Petrozavodsk State Univ., Petrozavodsk, Russia
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    300
  • Lastpage
    305
  • Abstract
    While thinking about potential new user groups for mobile devices one can notice that the world largest clusters with low penetration of devices are people from developing countries. In the developed countries the largest groups are children and older generation people. Driven by different factors the healthcare and medical applications might create real breakthrough in demand for the new mobile devices and services, and actively involve the above mentioned user groups. The paper describes ideas of the new applications, services and mobile device extension modules which provide the user with medical support and consultancy everywhere at anytime. The paper cannot be seen as a real scientific study, instead it is the first exploration of this field, which in particular is focused on proposing and arguing healthcare and medical solutions for mobile devices targeted to fulfill needs of the above mentioned user groups.
  • Keywords
    health care; medical information systems; mobile computing; children group; consultancy applications; healthcare applications; medical support applications; mobile devices; older generation group; Diseases; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Pediatrics; Sensors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Technologies in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (SIBIRCON), 2010 IEEE Region 8 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Listvyanka
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7625-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SIBIRCON.2010.5555103
  • Filename
    5555103