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Pervasive Healthcare Computing and its Contribution to Hospitals, Chronic and Preventive Care

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Pervasive computing denotes to the group of technologies intended to soundly incorporate health training, involvements, as well as observing technology into our monotonous lives, irrespective of locality and time. The objective can solitarily be attained once the patient-based data is made accessible at the fingertips of the physicians, healthcare specialists, and others contributing to increase the health of the people. This methodology can grow mutually the handling area and overall superiority of care. Pervasive healthcare computing delivers the canopy structure to define the complete supervision of patient health information as well as its protected exchange among doctors, healthcare professionals, nurses, and hospital managements. In excess of the previous decade, pervasive computing outcomes intended for healthcare have become progressively dominant in both investigation and profitable efforts. Taking into consideration the working circumstances of general practitioner and the requirements of related patients, pervasive computing provides a number of eye-catching solutions for a number of challenges to care supply in these areas. This chapter analyzes, assesses, and discusses a multiplicity of investigation works and profitable results dedicated to sympathetic, scheming, as well as applying pervasive healthcare applications in support of hospital care, chronic care, and preventive care.

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    Abdullah, Hagos Yirgaw, Solomon Aregawi & Haftay Gebrezgabiher

  2. Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Abdullah, Yirgaw, H., Aregawi, S., Gebrezgabiher, H., Huda, M. (2022). Pervasive Healthcare Computing and its Contribution to Hospitals, Chronic and Preventive Care. 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_1

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