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ABSTRACT

Advances in wireless technologies and mobile devices have made possible a wide range of efficient and powerful healthcare environments. Ubiquitous computing concepts meet healthcare principles, enabling physicians to connect to and use healthcare systems almost anytime, anywhere. This paper proposes a service architecture based on a context-aware middleware, which provides session management and content adaptation for ubiquitous medicine environments. By using simple applications on top of the proposed middleware services, associated physicians join a network of services, so called UHS (Ubiquitous Health Services) that provide ubiquitous access for its users from any point of the network, with different kinds of devices.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
      Subjects: Medical information systems

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management, Performance

Keywords:
application roaming, medical work, middleware, ubiquity