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The advent of Mobile technologies has defined ways for providing better flexibility in communication, collaboration and information sharing through wireless medium using portable mobile devices. Technologies allow users to have anytime, anywhere access to information and applications. Specifically, location-aware mobile service has become the most essential component in dealing with mobile based applications. Mobile health care is one such promising area where mobile technologies are highly useful to provide services to the affected people. Worldwide the investment towards mobile health care applications is tremendously increasing. The significance of SMS, sensors, agent’s technologies is widely seen in most of the health care projects. This paper focuses on a system called LAMECS (Location Aware MEdical Care Services) which helps the needy people at the right time. The major focus of LAMECS is to provide timely facilities to people in the mobile based networked environment. Especially, the key objectives are to reduce the time taken to inform the service providers about the situation and to initiate the health care services at an early stage.

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Saravanan, A., Balasundaram, S.R. Integrated location aware medical care services. Electron Markets 23, 5–14 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-012-0089-z

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