Abstract
The digital revolution in healthcare presents day after day new solutions to us. As one of the major roles in healthcare is the prevention of being diseased by the popularization of healthier living and doing sports, a vast majority of digital applications aims at self-monitoring and activity tracking via new wearable gadgets and smartphone apps. Also there are solutions for making the work of physicians and medical specialists easier and change their attitude for digital resolutions. This article gives an overview of mobile healthcare status respect to general and multimedia-related solutions and highlights the importance of the respect of Quality of Experience in these applications.
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electronic healthcare.
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mobile healthcare.
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Quality of Service.
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Electrocardiography.
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Quality of Experience.
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Double-stimulus continuous quality-scale.
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International Telecommunication Union.
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Moving Picture Experts Group 2 standard.
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High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265).
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Computed tomography.
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The work leading to these results has been partly funded by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office’s Hungarian-Montenegrin Bilateral Research Project (TET-15-1-2016-0039) and also by the ÚNKP-16-4-I. New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Human Capacities of Hungary.
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Péteri, T., Varga, N., Bokor, L. (2017). A Survey on Multimedia Quality of Experience Assessment Approaches in Mobile Healthcare Scenarios. In: Giokas, K., Bokor, L., Hopfgartner, F. (eds) eHealth 360°. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 181. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49655-9_59
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