Mobile Computing: Pervasive computing is the trend towards increasingly ubiquitous (another name for the movement is ubiquitous computing), connected computing devices in the environment, a trend being brought about by a convergence of advanced electronic - and particularly, wireless - technologies and the Internet (SearchNetworking.com).
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Agile Patient Care with Distributed M-Health Applications
Rafael Capilla (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Alfonso del Río (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Miguel Ángel Valero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), and José Antonio Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-002-8.ch020
Abstract
This chapter deals with the conceptualization, design and implementation of an m-health solution to support ubiquitous, integrated and continuous health care in hospitals. As the life expectancy of population grows in modern societies, effective healthcare becomes more and more important as a key social priority. Medical technology and high quality, accessible and efficient healthcare is currently demanded by citizens. Existing technologies from the computer field are widely used to improve patient care but new challenges demand the use of new communication, hardware and software technologies as a way to provide the necessary quality, security and response time at the point of care need. In this scenario, mobile and distributed developments can clearly help to increase the quality of healthcare systems as well as reduce the time needed to react to emerging care demands. In this chapter we will discuss important issues related to m-health systems and we deeply describe a mobile application for hospital healthcare. This application offers a modern solution which makes more agile doctor and nurse rounds on behalf of an instant online access to patient records through wireless networks. We also provide a highly usable application that makes simple patient monitoring with handheld devices.