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Medical Ubiquitous Computing in Healthcare

Ubiquity has been an important key to modern medical/health system to improve medical services in healthcare setting. Including medical education. Several publications demonstrate the potential of ubiquitous computing to enhance effectiveness of medical services.

Ubiquitous (pervasive/proactive) computing means anyone, anyplace and anytime we are able to use computer-related technologies, especially on the networking area.

To make medical ubiquitous computing a reality will require the contribution from nearly sub-disciplines of medical informatics, computer science and informatics-related researcher.

Taking fully advantage of computers in ubiquitous requires effective user–interfaces that support the needs of the user. Mobile agents technology will make this anticipation possible. Mobile data entry is an important but still a mainly unsolved problem in computer–based healthcare information systems. Integration, security, user interface, networking aren’t a cheap investments in computer systems.

Some ideas, topics or interests in this medical ubiquitous computing:

• personal medical education
• ubiquitous in broader learning process
• personal management of diseases
• ubiquitous medical practice
• ubiquitous clinical data
• PDA-based cognitive assistant
• wearable health computing
• wireless, implantable health sensors
• semantic web in ubiquitous healthcare
• ubiquitous web applications for health
• …you will find your hundreds of creative idea..

Further reading:

• Bang, M., Larsson, A., Eriksson H. (2003) NOSTOS: A Paper-Based Ubiquitous Computing Healthcare Environment to Support Data Capture and Collaboration. In: AMIA 2003 Proceedings. American Medical Informatics Association, p. 50.
• Bott, O.J., Ammenwerth, E., Brigl, B., Knaup, P., Lang, E., Pilgram, R., Pfeifer, B., Ruderich, F., Wolff, A.C., Haux, R., Kulikowski, C. (2005) The Challenge of Ubiquitous Computing in Health Care: Technology, Concepts and Solutions Findings from the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2005. Methods of Information in Medicine. 44 (3), pp. 473-479.
• List of ubiquitous computing research centers