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Pervasive Healthcare Computing: Applications, Challenges and Solutions

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Pervasive computing allows evolving the notion of autonomous systems that could probably incorporate varied technologies and electronic devices in view of the environmental setting to accomplish a set of rule-based actions and message exchanging. The area of the use of pervasive computing is very big. Evolving pervasive computing expertise is suitable in various aspects of lifetime such as healthcare system, pervasive learning and sport. In simple terms, pervasive healthcare can be precise as healthcare to everyone, every time as well as everywhere by eliminating locality, time and additional limitations although growing mutually its area coverage and overall quality. The wide-ranging definition consists of healthcare maintenance, prevention and check-ups and small-term observing, long-time observing, individual healthcare observing, incidence recognition and supervision as well as emergency mediation and conveyance and proper treatment. This chapter discusses a number of pervasive healthcare uses, relevant challenges as well as related solutions. An incorporated wireless structural design that is proposed to use the abilities of existing and progressing wireless as well as mobile networks for locality supervision, patient monitoring, intellectual emergency system and moveable telemedicine applications is presented and discussed.

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    Abdullah, Gezahagn Haileslassie Gezahagn, Teklay Teklu & Hagos Yirgaw

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Abdullah, Gezahagn, G.H., Teklu, T., Yirgaw, H., Huda, M. (2022). Pervasive Healthcare Computing: Applications, Challenges and Solutions. In: Husain, M.S., Adnan, M.H.B.M., Khan, M.Z., Shukla, S., Khan, F.U. (eds) Pervasive Healthcare. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77746-3_3

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