Pervasive or Ubiquitous Healthcare?
Bert Arnrich, Jakob E. Bardram, Oscar Mayora · Methods of Information in Medicine · 2010
Even if pervasive healthcare is in the phase of being consolidated as a new research dis-cipline as stated by Bardram [1] there are still some aspects of it that remain am-biguous to the research community. For example, the indistinct use of the terms “ubiquitous ” and “pervasive ” as synonyms may not be only a matter of terminology but a matter of helping to set the future di-rection of the field; the shift from technol-ogy towards users-centric models that in one hand is a common claim on pervasive healthcare developments but in the other is not fulfilled by lack of involvement of real users in experiments; the boundaries of the