With skyrocketing costs due to the increase in the elderly population, a rapid increase in lifestyle-related and chronic diseases, demand for new medical treatments and technologies, and a shortage in the number of available clinicians, nurses, and other caregivers, the challenges facing the healthcare industry seem insurmountable. However, by tra

Pervasive healthcare is the conceptual system of providing healthcare to anyone, at anytime, and anywhere by removing restraints of time and location while increasing both the coverage and the quality of healthcare. Pervasive Healthcare Computing is at the forefront of this research, and presents the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be used to implement the vision of pervasive healthcare. This vision includes prevention, healthcare maintenance and checkups; short-term monitoring (home healthcare), long-term monitoring (nursing home), and personalized healthcare monitoring; and incidence detection and management, emergency intervention, transportation and treatment. The pervasive healthcare applications include intelligent emergency management system, pervasive healthcare data access, and ubiquitous mobile telemedicine. Pervasive Healthcare Computing includes the treatment of several new wireless technologies and the ways in which they will implement the vision of pervasive healthcare.

The pervasive healthcare system focus towards achieving two specific goals: the availability of eHealth applications and medical information anywhere and anytime and the invisibility of computing. Furthermore, pervasive health system encompasses new types of sensing and communication of health information as well as new type of interactions among health providers and people, among patients, among patients and researchers and patients and corporations. This book aims at promoting the discussion on current trends in technologies and concepts that help integrate health monitoring and healthcare more seamlessly to our everyday lives, regardless of space and time, but also present cutting edge perspectives and visions to highlight future development. The book presents not only the state of the art technologies and solutions to tackle the critical challenges faced by the building and development of the pervasive health system but also potential impact on society at social, medical and technological level.

A guide to intelligent decision and pervasive computing paradigms for healthcare analytics systems with a focus on the use of bio-sensors Intelligent Pervasive Computing Systems for Smarter Healthcare describes the innovations in healthcare made possible by computing through bio-sensors. The pervasive computing paradigm offers tremendous advantages in diversified areas of healthcare research and technology. The authors—noted experts in the field—provide the state-of-the-art intelligence paradigm that enables optimization of medical assessment for a healthy, authentic, safer, and more productive environment. Today’s computers are integrated through bio-sensors and generate a huge amount of information that can enhance our ability to process enormous bio-informatics data that can be transformed into meaningful medical knowledge and help with diagnosis, monitoring and tracking health issues, clinical decision making, early detection of infectious disease prevention, and rapid analysis of health hazards. The text examines a wealth of topics such as the design and development of pervasive healthcare technologies, data modeling and information management, wearable biosensors and their systems, and more. This important resource: Explores the recent trends and developments in computing through bio-sensors and its technological applications Contains a review of biosensors and sensor systems and networks for mobile health monitoring Offers an opportunity for readers to examine the concepts and future outlook of intelligence on healthcare systems incorporating biosensor applications Includes information on privacy and security issues on wireless body area network for remote healthcare monitoring Written for scientists and application developers and professionals in related fields, Intelligent Pervasive Computing Systems for Smarter Healthcare is a guide to the most recent developments in intelligent computer systems that are applicable to the healthcare industry.

"This book reports several experiences concerning the application of pervasive computing technologies, methodologies and tools in healthcare"--Provided by publisher.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2022, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, in December 2022. The 45 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: personal informatics and wearable devices; computer vision; IoT-HR: Internet of things in health research; pervasive health for COVID-19; machine learning, human activity recognition and speech recognition; software frameworks and interoperability; facial recognition, gesture recognition and object detection; machine learning, predictive models and personalised healthcare; human-centred design of pervasive health solutions; personalized healthcare.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2023, held in Malmö, Sweden, during November 27-29, 2023. The 29 full papers and 6 short papers were selected from 90 submissions and are organized in thematic sessions as follows: Pervasive Mental Health; Privacy, Ethics and Regulations; Datasets and Big data Processing; Pervasive health for Carers; Pervasive Health in Clinical Practice; Remote Monitoring; Patient and User Aspects; Motion and rehabilitation; Workshop on the Internet of Things in Health Research; Posters and demos (non indexed annex).

This book provides in depth knowledge about critical factors involved in the success of pervasive healthcare. The book first presents critical components and importance of pervasive healthcare. The authors then give insight into the pervasive healthcare information systems and key consideration related to remote patient monitoring and safety. The book provides in-depth discussion about the security issues and protocols for pervasive healthcare. This book explores concepts and techniques behind the successive pervasive healthcare systems by providing in-depth knowledge about patient empowerment, remote patient monitoring, network establishment and protocols for effective pervasive healthcare. The book also provides case studies in the field. It is an ideal resource for researchers, students and healthcare organizations to get insight about the state of the art in pervasive healthcare systems. Provides current research, developments, and applications in pervasive healthcare; Includes technologies such as machine learning, cryptography, fog computing, and big data in the advancement of e-healthcare; Pertinent for researchers, students, practitioners and healthcare decision makers.

This monograph presents an overview of the history of pervasive healthcare research as a human-centered vision driven by a healthcare model that includes preventive, hospital, and chronic care. It summarizes the research in this space, outlining research challenges, current approaches, results, and trends.