u-Healthcare: The Next Healthcare Service Paradigm
Ronnie D. Caytiles, Sungwon Park · Bio-Science and Bio-Technology · 2012
This paper presents a study of the comparison of different healthcare services to identify the characteristics and of a pervasive and ubiquitous healthcare system which is described as the healthcare provided for home based and moving patients that could enable remote and continuous monitoring and medical services anywhere and anytime. The study has identified the different classification of healthcare services such as the traditional healthcare service, location-based healthcare service, the home and mobile healthcare service and the ubiquitous healthcare services. The important characteristics required in ubiquitous medical service management systems in order to get some clues for ubiquitous healthcare service system architecture design are identified.