OBJECTIVES: Wearable systems can be broadly defined as mobile electronic devices that can be unobtrusively embedded in the users outfit as part of the clothing or an accessory...
Keywords: Mobile computing, wearable computing, ambient systems, health monitoring, assistive technologies, context awareness
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: To review recent research efforts in the field of ubiquitous computing in health care. To identify current research trends and further challenges for medical informatics. METHODS: Analysis of the contents of the Yearbook on Medical Informatics 2005 of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). RESULTS: The Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005 includes 34 original papers selected from 22 peer-reviewed scientific journals related to several distinct research areas: health and clinical management, patient records, health information systems, medical signal processing and biomedical imaging, decision support, knowledge representation and management, education and consumer informatics as well as bioinformatics. A special section on ubiquitous health care systems is devoted to recent developments in the application of ubiquitous computing in health care...
Keywords: Medical Informatics, Health Informatics, International Medical Informatics Association, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing, Mobile computing, yearbook
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, SchattauerOBJECTIVES: This paper aims to explore how computerized interpersonal information can be mediated through the physical environment of hospital wards...
Keywords: Clinical communication, context-awareness, Mobile computing, point-of-care systems
01/2006 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer