Items for "Pervasive Computing"

The Challenge of Ubiquitous Computing in Health Care: Technology, Concepts and Solutions. Findings from the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005

OBJECTIVES: 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