Context-aware eHealth information approach for the Brazilian primary healthcare system

Author

Neto, Augusto ; Junior, J. ; Neuman, J. ; Cerqueira, Eduardo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Appl. Math., Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

276

Abstract

The eHealth technology will bring many benefits for patients, healthcare professionals, and institutions, especially in developing countries, such as Brazil. The eHealth solutions will enable faster, safer, and better healthcare services through the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) with eHealth issue. This paper gives an overview of the Context-Aware Mobile Approach (CAMA) on going research activities for eHealth environments. CAMA seeks to improve the Brazilian primary healthcare system through context-aware eHealth facilities, expecting to change the way that healthcare services are applied, managed, and maintained to achieve efficiency, safety, and reliability for both patients and hospital staffs.

Keywords

health care; hospitals; medical information systems; ubiquitous computing; Brazilian primary healthcare system; CAMA; ICT; context-aware e-health facilities; context-aware e-health information approach; developing countries; e-health environments; health care services; hospital staff efficiency; hospital staff reliability; hospital staff safety; information and communication technologies; patient efficiency; patient reliability; patient safety; Context; Medical services; Mobile communication; Proposals; Real-time systems; Sensors; Temperature measurement; body sensor networks; context-awareness; eHealth; health information networking; remote patient monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Health Networking, Applications & Services (Healthcom), 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5800-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720682

Filename

6720682