U-healthcare system: State-of-the-art review and challenges
Author | Touati F. |
Author | Tabish R. |
Available date | 2022-05-22T11:03:10Z |
Publication Date | 2013 |
Publication Name | Journal of Medical Systems |
Resource | Scopus |
Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10916-013-9949-0 |
Abstract | With the increase of an ageing population and chronic diseases, society becomes more health conscious and patients become "health consumers" looking for better health management. People's perception is shifting towards patient-centered, rather than the classical, hospital-centered health services which has been propelling the evolution of telemedicine research from the classic e-Health to m-Health and now is to ubiquitous healthcare (u-Health). It is expected that mobile & ubiquitous Telemedicine, integrated with Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), have a great potential in fostering the provision of next-generation u-Health. Despite the recent efforts and achievements, current u-Health proposed solutions still suffer from shortcomings hampering their adoption today. This paper presents a comprehensive review of up-to-date requirements in hardware, communication, and computing for next-generation u-Health systems. It compares new technological and technical trends and discusses how they address expected u-Health requirements. A thorough survey on various worldwide recent system implementations is presented in an attempt to identify shortcomings in state-of-the art solutions. In particular, challenges in WBAN and ubiquitous computing were emphasized. The purpose of this survey is not only to help beginners with a holistic approach toward understanding u-Health systems but also present to researchers new technological trends and design challenges they have to cope with, while designing such systems. |
Language | en |
Publisher | SpringerLink |
Subject | accelerometer article blood pressure health care delivery health care system implant Internet medical information system sensor telemedicine wireless communication art computer network health care delivery health service human telemedicine Computer Communication Networks Delivery of Health Care Health Services Human Body Humans Telemedicine |
Type | Article |
Issue Number | 3 |
Volume Number | 37 |
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