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System Overview of Next-Generation Remote Healthcare

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Pervasive communication technologies and tiny wireless monitoring devices have provided a solid foundation for the idea of remote healthcare. This idea aims at making available over communication networks (e.g. the Internet) some of the fundamental healthcare services commonly available only in conventional medical facilities and clinical settings. Information and communication systems supporting ubiquitous and continuous remote healthcare provision have been effectively employed in a number of application scenarios. In this chapter we mainly focus on patient monitoring activities as they are general enough to demonstrate most of the technical and procedural challenges that need to be addressed in remote healthcare systems. The main contributions of the chapter are a detailed definition of necessary functional and non-functional requirements for such systems and the identification, design and discussion of a reference architecture conceived to properly meet these requirements.

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Vitaletti, A., Puglia, S. (2014). System Overview of Next-Generation Remote Healthcare. In: Maharatna, K., Bonfiglio, S. (eds) Systems Design for Remote Healthcare. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8842-2_2

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