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Towards an application framework for context-aware m-health applications

Published inInternational Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, vol. 2, no. 2, p. 109-116
Publication date2007
Abstract

Several social-economical developments, like the ageing society, stimulate the use of ICT applications for mobile healthcare (e.g., tele-monitoring). To support novel m-health applications, the consequences of developing these applications should be considered in the scope of a comprehensive architecture. Additionally, contextual information plays an important role for personalised healthcare and should be considered in such architectures. This paper describes ongoing research that focuses on developing an application framework for supporting the development of context-aware m-health applications. It gives initial requirements for such a framework and it gives a first attempt for a functional decomposition. The use of the framework is illustrated by means of an epilepsy tele-monitoring scenario.

Keywords
  • Application framework
  • Context awareness
  • Ageing society
  • Telemonitoring
  • Epilepsy telemonitoring
  • Teletreatment
  • E-health
  • M-health
  • M-health applications
  • Mobile healthcare
  • Electronic healthcare
  • Information technology
  • Communications
  • ICT
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BROENS, Tom et al. Towards an application framework for context-aware m-health applications. In: International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, 2007, vol. 2, n° 2, p. 109–116. doi: 10.1504/IJIPT.2007.012374
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