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Published in: Journal of Medical Systems 3/2013

01-06-2013 | Original Paper

U-Healthcare System: State-of-the-Art Review and Challenges

Authors: Farid Touati, Rohan Tabish

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 3/2013

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Abstract

With the increase of an ageing population and chronic diseases, society becomes more health conscious and patients become “health consumers” looking for better health management. People’s perception is shifting towards patient-centered, rather than the classical, hospital–centered health services which has been propelling the evolution of telemedicine research from the classic e-Health to m-Health and now is to ubiquitous healthcare (u-Health). It is expected that mobile & ubiquitous Telemedicine, integrated with Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), have a great potential in fostering the provision of next-generation u-Health. Despite the recent efforts and achievements, current u-Health proposed solutions still suffer from shortcomings hampering their adoption today. This paper presents a comprehensive review of up-to-date requirements in hardware, communication, and computing for next-generation u-Health systems. It compares new technological and technical trends and discusses how they address expected u-Health requirements. A thorough survey on various worldwide recent system implementations is presented in an attempt to identify shortcomings in state-of-the art solutions. In particular, challenges in WBAN and ubiquitous computing were emphasized. The purpose of this survey is not only to help beginners with a holistic approach toward understanding u-Health systems but also present to researchers new technological trends and design challenges they have to cope with, while designing such systems.
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Metadata
Title
U-Healthcare System: State-of-the-Art Review and Challenges
Authors
Farid Touati
Rohan Tabish
Publication date
01-06-2013
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-013-9949-0

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