Preliminary Research on Wearable Healthcare in Ubiquitous Computing Age

Author

Zhu, Jianxin ; Gao, Leina ; Zhang, Xinfang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

519

Lastpage

523

Abstract

The wearable healthcare in ubiquitous computing age is a new personalized medical paradigm in the future. It will play a significant role in illness prevention, early diagnosis or effective treatment, which can bring considerable benefits to the individual and society. This paper presents a conceptual model of pervasive wearable healthcare system and discusses the key technology. According to the current technology status, an application mode and a prototype of pervasive healthcare services is given. The research direction of the software and hardware is also indicated in the end.

Keywords

health care; medical diagnostic computing; patient treatment; ubiquitous computing; conceptual model; illness prevention; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; personalized medical paradigm; pervasive wearable healthcare system; ubiquitous computing age; Biomedical monitoring; Computerized monitoring; Hardware; Intelligent sensors; Medical services; Patient monitoring; Pervasive computing; Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computers; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3336-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSSE.2008.1497

Filename

4722396