DocumentCode
2504690
Title
Trend of wireless u-Health
Author
Jeong, Kugsang ; Jung, Eun-Young ; Park, Dong Kyun
Author_Institution
u-Healthcare Center, Gachon Univ. Gil Hosp., Incheon, South Korea
fYear
2009
fDate
28-30 Sept. 2009
Firstpage
829
Lastpage
833
Abstract
Wireless network based u-Health services enable people´s health care anytime, anywhere. Recently technology advance in the area of sensing, networking, processing is developed rapidly. This advance of information technology is raising the change of traditional healthcare system. By using wireless and mobile networks, patients could be monitored and managed outside hospitals and also examined with safety and efficiency in hospitals. Even though there are lots of services for u-Health including commercial services, to envision and make u-Health become more active in the future, safety and usefulness of u-Health in the perspective of medicine should be needed.
Keywords
health care; patient monitoring; telemedicine; wireless LAN; wireless sensor networks; health care; mobile networks; patient monitoring; u-Health; wireless network; Biomedical monitoring; Cables; Diseases; Hospitals; Information analysis; Medical services; Network servers; Patient monitoring; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; pervavie healthcare; u-Health; wireless network;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Communications and Information Technology, 2009. ISCIT 2009. 9th International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Icheon
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4521-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-4522-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISCIT.2009.5341125
Filename
5341125
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