Pervasive Healthcare Solutions

Classifications of Pervasive Healthcare Solutions

Classifications of Pervasive Healthcare Solutions

Introduction

Technological development has brought several changes and variations every field of life including medicine and healthcare. Furthermore, the mobile and wireless technology is supporting all the areas including several emerging and current healthcare applications. This idea may significantly fulfill the concept of pervasive healthcare or healthcare for everyone, at any instant and anywhere while ignoring the time, geographical and other restraints. In addition to this, pervasive healthcare applications may also allow to enhance and improve the quality as well as the coverage of the healthcare facilities. The applications and techniques of pervasive healthcare aim to improve and enhance the habitability by supporting individuals who live separately. Proceeding paper incorporates the requirements and applications of pervasive healthcare. It may include various wireless and networking solutions. Some of the pervasive healthcare techniques or applications may include ubiquitous mobile telemedicine, pervasive health-care data access, intelligent emergency management system and pervasive healthcare monitoring. In this scenario, the wireless monitoring of healthcare may also face several challenges and issues regarding reliability, context-awareness, security issues etc. All of these issues and the applications that may address these issues are also described in the proceeding discussion (Magedanz, 2005, pp. 200-202).

Discussion

Pervasive Healthcare

Pervasive healthcare is considered as one of the merging and the most prominent research discipline which emphasizes on the application and development of ubiquitous computer technology for the area of healthcare. Pervasive healthcare aims to accommodate the rising requirement of healthcare in order to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of patient's care. The area of pervasive healthcare may be characterized in two perspectives. Initially it is the application and development of pervasive computing (ambient intelligence or ubiquitous computing) technologies for wellness and health management and healthcare management of the patients. Furthermore, it aims to make medical and health facilities to everyone and anytime regardless of geographical factors while ensuring the quality and coverage of the healthcare facilities. In this scenario, the pervasive healthcare applications may play an effective role in ensuring the healthcare facilities for anyone. While providing the healthcare facilities, these applications may face several challenges and issues. In this scenario, non-commercial solutions (prototype solutions) and existing commercial/industrial applications may play a significant role in addressing these issues (Magedanz, 2005, pp. 200-202). These solutions are briefly elaborated in the proceeding discussion.

Prototype Solutions (Non-Commercial)

In the current era of technology, pervasive healthcare applications make it possible to provide effective and efficient medical homecare to the patients. In this scenario, these applications may face several challenges and issues. Therefore, several non-commercial and prototype solutions may play an efficient role in addressing these issues and challenges. In the today's world, several wireless and networking technologies are implemented in the field of healthcare in order to ensure the integrity of the medical applications. These non-commercial devices may include bio-shirt, AUBADE, Live net etc. All these devices are considered as the most appropriate and efficient prototype solutions which may play a prominent role in incorporating innovative technologies in order to ensure ...