Pervasive health service system: insights on the development of a grid-based personal health service system

Abstract

Although medical technologies developed in the twenty-first century have successfully increased man's life span, the pressure of modern life has consequently brought many modern civilization diseases and chronic illness. When all these problems are tackled by hospitals, they will consume considerable amount of medical resources. Alternatively, providing health care services at home is an important issue forimproving personal health and save hospital resources. In this paper, we present an ongoing project that designs and implements a pervasive health service infrastructure based on the grid system which is integrated with the P2P's resource sharing mechanism, to provide the personal health service. The personal health status is recorded, monitored, and even mined in/from the proposed pervasive health service system for preventive medicine.Additionally, wireless sensor equipments for mobile personal health services are also integrated into the pervasive health service system, in order to construct a situation-aware, context aware and environment-aware mobile-health-service platform.Keywords-health care deLivery, medicaL heaLth information system, high-end technologies 1.

Technological Ecosystems in Care and Assistance: A Systematic Literature Review

“…In terms of the rest of the actors involved in value co-creation within the ecosystems, results are shown in Figure 8. We distinguish between: health care related actors, 32 papers (86%) (e.g., [6,7]); patients and/or relatives, 22 papers (60%) (e.g., [8,10]); funders, 12 papers (32%) (e.g., [54,58]); regulatory parties, 10 papers (27%) (e.g., [58,60]); software or technology providers, 22 papers (60%) (e.g., [62,63]); goods providers, nine papers (24%) (e.g., [43,64]); and educational or research institutions, four papers (11%) (e.g., [61,67]).…”

“…Figure 10 shows the results referring to the maturity of the proposed ecosystem solutions in the selected studies, obtained results show that 46% (17 papers, e.g., [9,47,48,53,63,64], etc.) describe an ecosystem conceptualization or have not been tested, 11% (six papers, [6,7,8,61,62,70]) have been tested either as a whole or any of their components have been piloted in lab conditions, 30% (11 papers, [44,45,56,66,69,72], etc.) have been piloted with real users, and finally only three papers ([11,60,67]) describe ecosystems which have been deployed in the real world.…”

“…Examples of the different technologies described in the studies include:Body sensors and medical devices: ECG devices [46,47,63]; blood analyzers [62,66,68]; body thermometers [62]; etc.Ambient sensors: temperature [6,7,66]; humidity [63,65]; gas detectors [65,66]; etc.Smart technologies: smartTV [8,53] PDAs [53]; mobile phones [48,71]; smart gloves [45]; etc.Cameras: [52,57,67,72]Localization and presence sensors: infrareds [7]; RFID [7]…”

Optimization of Overlay Computing Systems with Many-to-Many Transmissions

“…The idea of distributed computing systems have been gaining much popularity especially in the medical area, e.g., [2], [3], [6], [17], [19]. The BioGrid Australia platform enables authorized researchers a secure access to hundreds of thousands of privacyprotected health records provided by for BioGrid members and collaborators.…”

“…To tackle the most difficult issues of the content-based image retrieval process, an efficient architecture is introduced that applies a distributed grid computing approach to carry out the image processing in a distributed and efficient way. The authors of [19] report a project that designs and implements a pervasive health service infrastructure based on the grid system. Additionally, the proposed architecture includes P2P's resource sharing mechanism, to provide the personal health service.…”