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A pervasive architectural framework for providing remote medical treatment

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PETRA '08: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1389586.1389614

Published: 16 July 2008 Publication History

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The proliferation of mobile devices has led to their integration into a huge number of assistive environments where they perform a key role. Pervasive environments, built over wireless infrastructures, introduce new possibilities in the healthcare sector realizing the anytime-anywhere access to medical information paradigm. Towards this direction pervasive technology can be deployed in assistive environments, such as home monitoring for elderly or patients. In this paper we describe a policy based architecture that utilizes software agents and wireless sensor technologies to enable remote monitoring of patients and elderly people. We also discuss the technical challenges which directed the decisions with respect to the design of our software prototype architecture. These decisions mainly focus on providing continuous feedback of the patient's condition, while transferring encrypted versions of the necessary medical information in accordance with the increased security and privacy requirements. The presented prototype implementation utilizes advanced network management technologies and software agent engineering in order to operate effectively, to achieve interoperability through the different modules and in order to comply with the imposed (by the legislative framework) increased security and privacy requirements.

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A pervasive architectural framework for providing remote medical treatment
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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PETRA '08: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

July 2008

607 pages

ISBN:9781605580678

DOI:10.1145/1389586

Editors:
Fillia Makedon
University of Texas at Arlington
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Lynne Baillie
Telecom Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria
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Grammati Pantziou
TEI of Athens (Department of Informatics), Greece
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Ilias Maglogiannis
University of Central Greece (Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics), Greece

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