• 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