U-Healthcare System: State-of-the-Art Review and Challenges

Abstract

With the increase of an ageing population and chronic diseases, society becomes more health conscious and patients become "health consumers" looking for better health management. People's perception is shifting towards patient-centered, rather than the classical, hospital-centered health services which has been propelling the evolution of telemedicine research from the classic e-Health to m-Health and now is to ubiquitous healthcare (u-Health). It is expected that mobile & ubiquitous Telemedicine, integrated with Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), have a great potential in fostering the provision of next-generation u-Health. Despite the recent efforts and achievements, current u-Health proposed solutions still suffer from shortcomings hampering their adoption today. This paper presents a comprehensive review of up-to-date requirements in hardware, communication, and computing for next-generation u-Health systems. It compares new technological and technical trends and discusses how they address expected u-Health requirements. A thorough survey on various worldwide recent system implementations is presented in an attempt to identify shortcomings in state-of-the art solutions. In particular, challenges in WBAN and ubiquitous computing were emphasized. The purpose of this survey is not only to help beginners with a holistic approach toward understanding u-Health systems but also present to researchers new technological trends and design challenges they have to cope with, while designing such systems.

Monitor Cardíaco Portátil con Interfaz Bluetooth “CARDIO UEES” / Portable Heart Monitor with a Bluetooth Interface “CARDIO UEES”

“…Como reacción ante estas cifras, la política de salud en el país ha planteado como prioridad de investigación los temas inherentes a enfermedades cardiovasculares y las nuevas tecnologías que aportan como solución para reducir estas estadísticas. (Ministerio de Salud Pública de la República del Ecuador, 2013) Con respecto a las nuevas tecnologías que aportan con soluciones para la prevención, detección temprana, diagnóstico y monitorización de enfermedades cardiovasculares, estas se pueden incluir dentro del campo de investigación conocido como U-Health (medicina omnipresente) (Touati & Tabish, 2013). Bajo este concepto se han habilitado redes de monitorización inalámbrica para pacientes en varias instituciones de salud (Banchs & Scher, 2015).…”

“…Las aplicaciones de medicina que utilizan redes inalámbricas para la transmisión de datos deben cumplir con requerimientos como tiempo de operación, latencia y fiabilidad de los datos (Zheng et al, 2014), además deben proveer también seguridad en la transmisión, brindar facilidades de movilidad, uso y privacidad (Touati y Tabish, 2013). Para la implementación de monitores cardíacos en tiempo real se recomienda valores no menores a 8 kbit/s (Giovanelli, Milosevic y Farella, 2015).…”

Routing and Security Issues in U-Healthcare Mobile, Ubiquitous and Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)

“…The term U-Healthcare means "Ubiquitous processing implies brilliant surroundings constructed from lots of computer system pieces which will supply needed details to be able to the person who requires the item at the proper period" [3]. The human population is growing rapidly which may increase problems for the U-Healthcare system and it will be difficult to handle the increasing size of the database of patients.…”

The Design and Analysis of a Secure Personal Healthcare System Based on Certificates

“…As such, there has been an increasing concern about healthcare, as health checkups and management have received attention. In addition, Information technology (IT) has caused a rapid increase in the demand for the development of e-Healthcare technologies and services [1][2][3]. e-Healthcare is a newly coined term that refers to healthcare IT services that support communication and exchanges regarding medical information over the Internet.…”