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What is Proactive Computing

Chapter 65
Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Applications that are designed to anticipate an individual’s needs and to take action to meet the needs on their behalf (taken from http://www.Intel.com’s Web site on Health Research and Innovation).
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Emerging Technologies for Aging in Place
Shirley Ann Becker (Florida Institute of Technology, USA) and Frank Webbe (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch065
Abstract
Similar to other nations, the United States faces a critical challenge in dealing with an aging population that has unprecedented life expectancies. Emerging technologies offer the hope of allowing older adults to remain in their homes longer by empowering individuals to manage daily activities while dealing with chronic health conditions and age-related diseases. These technologies increasingly target a home environment whereby on a regular basis an individual can obtain assistance in performing daily living activities, stay connected to family and friends, manage medication, and be monitored for health-related changes. As important as these assistive technologies are for individuals and families, their potential for positively impacting the United States economy by changing the model of healthcare delivery is equally huge.
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Chapter 28
Information Security at Large Public Displays
The vision of ‘Proactive Computing’ (Tennenhouse, 2000) goes even beyond those of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing. It anticipates future environments, in which networked computers proactively anticipate our needs and, sometimes, take actions on our behalf.
Published in Chapter: Information Security at Large Public Displays; From: Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Liabilities in Information Security
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