Abstract
In order to provide dependable healthcare services for the elderly, it is necessary to have a patient-centric system in which service automation dominates through the use of context-awareness. Healthcare service automation has the virtues to overcome the disadvantages arising from the disabilities that are inherent in the elderly population, physically challenged, and those who live in remote areas. In order that patients trust the healthcare services provided by the system, the creation of healthcare services must be founded on accurate model of patients, and must be delivered by experts through dependable medical devices and secure channels. Motivated by this goal, we propose a healthcare architecture based on a generic Context Awareness Framework (CAF) adapted to the elderly. The automation aspects of healthcare services based on this architecture are discussed.
This research is supported by Discovery Grants Program, NSERC, Canada.
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Oyekanmi, T.P., Nguyen, N., Alagar, V. (2016). A Context-Aware Healthcare Architecture for the Elderly. In: Vinh, P., Alagar, V. (eds) Context-Aware Systems and Applications. ICCASA 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 165. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29236-6_3
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