Electronic prescriptions: a ubiquitous solution using Jini

Author

Ghinea, Gheorghita ; Moradi, Arash ; Asgari, Shervin ; Serif, Tacha

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Syst., Comput. & Math., Brunei Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

13-17 March 2006

Lastpage

505

Abstract

Ubiquitous computing has thus far not touched the realm of electronic prescriptions. This paper describes a Jini-based solution for electronic prescriptions, which allows for their wireless transmission to in-range pharmacies and the augmentation of the service levels rendered to the user, with, for instance, information about queue lengths and estimated waiting times being provided to patients. Clinical evaluation of the prototype has highlighted general consensus in respect of its effectiveness, ease of use and usefulness

Keywords

biomedical communication; medical information systems; patient care; ubiquitous computing; wireless sensor networks; Jini; clinical evaluation; electronic prescriptions; in-range pharmacy; queue lengths; ubiquitous computing; ubiquitous solution; wireless transmission; Computed tomography; Information systems; Java; Markup languages; Medical services; Personal digital assistants; Pervasive computing; Prototypes; Remote monitoring; Telemedicine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. PerCom Workshops 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2520-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.49

Filename

1599035