• Title/Summary/Keyword: Ubiquitous healthcare

Search Result 293, Processing Time 0.038 seconds

The Role of Reputation in Ubiquitous Healthcare System

  • Yuan, Weiwei;Guan, Donghai;Lee, Sung-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
    • /
    • 2007.05a
    • /
    • pp.847-848
    • /
    • 2007
  • In this work, we analyze the role of reputation in ubiquitous healthcare system as well as the relationship of security, trust and reputation in this environment in details. In addition, an example is given to show how to use reputation system in ubiquitous healthcare and how to use reputation system on decision making.

  • PDF

Development of Wearable Electro-Stethoscope Hardware System for the Ubiquitous Healthcare (유비쿼터스 헬스케어를 위한 무구속 전자청진 하드웨어 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Jun
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
    • /
    • v.56 no.6
    • /
    • pp.1139-1143
    • /
    • 2007
  • For the possible application of monitoring or diagnosing heart sounds in an ubiquitous healthcare environment. a small and light electro-stethoscope that can be attached in human body should be exploited. With this aim, this study proposes a new style of electro-stethoscope device that is composed of four hardware modules in wearable style. For this ambulatory heart sound collecting device, the several tests must be performed to check portability and material capability for collecting heart sounds. It turned out to be that the multi-channel electro-stethoscope can detect heart sound signals well even if it is not pinpointed in the accurate stethoscope point on a heart. Consequently, our ambulatory electro-stethoscope hardware system can be applied to monitor or diagnose abnormal heart sounds in the ubiquitous healthcare system.

A Personalized Healthcare Analysis System in Ubiquitous Environment

  • Sain, Mangal;Chung, Wan-Young;Lee, Hoon-Jae
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
    • /
    • v.9 no.2
    • /
    • pp.235-243
    • /
    • 2011
  • With the recent trends and the adaptation of further advancement in personal healthcare system leads to develop some application which can work independent and user can operate that application without much interference of physician or any specialist user. To meet these needs, this paper proposes and implements a progressive architecture for the personal healthcare information system. This new architecture will not only play the role of middleware but also provide a analysis tool to process that different sensor data which is collected from different sensors implemented on patient body and environment. After collecting that data, with the help of various developed applications this data can be convert into useful information which will be stored in application server for further use and research. These features can be enabled by simple and effortless interactions of normal users and act autonomously to support their activities. This proposed personal healthcare architecture will also provide analysis report to the doctors and patient or various users for further instructions. The analysis report consists of healthcare data analysis results and history of patients. We are considering healthcare data like ECG, which is an important aspect for basic healthcare need.

Design of Key Tree-based Management Scheme for Healthcare Information Exchange in Convergent u-Healthcare Service (융합형 u-헬스케어 서비스에서 헬스 정보 교환을 위한 키 트리 기반 관리 체계 설계)

  • Kim, Donghyun;Kim, Seoksoo
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
    • /
    • v.6 no.6
    • /
    • pp.81-86
    • /
    • 2015
  • The threats to privacy and security have received increasing attention as ubiquitous healthcare applications over the Internet become more prevalent, mobile and universal. In particular, we address the communication security issues of access sharing of health information resources in the ubiquitous healthcare environment. The proposed scheme resolves the sender and data authentication problem in information systems and group communications. We propose a novel key management scheme for generating and distributing cryptographic keys to constituent users to provide form of data encryption method for certain types of data concerning resource constraints for secure communications in the ubiquitous healthcare domains.

A Healthcare Service for Ubiquitous Environment (유비쿼터스 환경을 위한 헬스 케어 서비스 제공 방안)

  • Park Yong-Min;Park Joo-Hee
    • Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
    • /
    • 2005.11a
    • /
    • pp.275-278
    • /
    • 2005
  • We describe the Ubiquitous Healthcare Service(UHS) architecture, a new service-provision architecture, covering the basic concept, component and their roles and the service-provision mechanism. A UHS provides services in two phases, a service composition phase in which Healthcare Service Elements (HSEs) are combined on the basis of Healthcare Service Agents (HSAs), and a Healthcare Service emergence phase in which a new HSA is obtained on the basis of the history usage of HSEs and HSAs. A UHS can handle various types of HSEs, representing web services, resources about healthcare domain. The establishment of UHS technologies on networks will provide various services within ubiquitous-computing environments.

  • PDF

A Combined QRS-complex and P-wave Detection in ECG Signal for Ubiquitous Healthcare System

  • Bhardwaj, Sachin;Lee, Dae-Seok;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
    • /
    • v.5 no.2
    • /
    • pp.98-103
    • /
    • 2007
  • Long term Electrocardiogram (ECG) [1] analysis plays a key role in heart disease analysis. A combined detection of QRS-complex and P-wave in ECG signal for ubiquitous healthcare system was designed and implemented which can be used as an advanced warning device. The ECG features are used to detect life-threating arrhythmias, with an emphasis on the software for analyzing QRS complex and P-wave in wireless ECG signals at server after receiving data from base station. Based on abnormal ECG activity, the server will transfer alarm conditions to a doctor's Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Doctor can diagnose the patients who have survived from cardiac arrhythmia diseases.

Ontology Knowledge-Driven Context-awere U-Healthcare Service Application Service Framework using Secure Health Information Exchange (보안 헬스 정보 교환을 이용한 온톨로지 지식기반 상황인식 U-헬스케어 어플리케이션 서비스 프레임워크 설계)

  • Kim, Donghyun;Kim, Seoksoo;Choi, E-Jung
    • Convergence Security Journal
    • /
    • v.14 no.7
    • /
    • pp.75-84
    • /
    • 2014
  • The advancement in ubiquitous healthcare specifically in preventive healthcare can lead to longer life expectancy especially for the elderly patients. To aid in preventing premature loss of lives as well as lengthening life span, this research aims to implement the use of mobile and wireless sensor technology to improve the quality of life and lengthen life expectancy. The threats to privacy and security have received increasing attention as ubiquitous healthcare applications over the Internet become more prevalent, mobile and universal. Therefore, we propose Context-aware Service of U-Healthcare Application based Knowledge using Ontology in secure health information exchange. This research also applies ontology in secure information exchange to support knowledge base, context modeling, and context reasoning by applying the general application areas for ontologies to the domain of context in ubiquitous computing environments. This paper also demonstrates how knowledge base, context technologies, and mobile web services can help enhance the quality of services in preventive ubiquitous healthcare to elderly patients.

Electrochemical Biosensors for U-Healthcare (유비쿼터스 헬스케어를 위한 전기화학 바이오센서)

  • Kim, Sang-Kyu;Chung, Bong-Hyun
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
    • /
    • v.29 no.5
    • /
    • pp.337-342
    • /
    • 2008
  • To date, many researchers have developed a variety of biosensors to detect the biomolecular interactions. Recently, electrochemical biosensors have been attracting great interest as one of key technologies in a ubiquitous healthcare (U-healthcare) system since they are highly sensitive and feasible to miniaturize. Here we overview the current electrochemical biosensors based on strip-type, nanowire/nanotube, field effect transistor (FET), and nanogap electrode.

Middleware for Ubiquitous Healthcare Information System

  • Sain, Mangal;Lee, Hoon-Jae;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
    • /
    • 2008.10a
    • /
    • pp.257-260
    • /
    • 2008
  • We build middleware architecture with J2EE and LiveGraph to process different ubiquitous healthcare application's data and process that data into useful information, which can play a most important role in decision making in ubiquitous Healthcare System. Application developers mostly rely on third party middleware, tools and libraries (i.e., webservers, distributed middleware such as CORBA, etc.) to respond the emerging trends of their target domain. With this middleware we tried to enhance the efficiency of application by decrease their memory uses, data processing and decision making on another web module which is independent of each application. For middleware system, we proposed an algorithm by which we can find some important conclusion about different health status likewise ECG, Accelerometer. etc., which can be used in various data processing and determine the current health status. In this paper we also analyze some different low level and high level middleware technology which were used to build different kind middleware likewise CAMUS, MiLAN and try to find the best solution in the form of middleware for Ubiquitous Healthcare Information System.

  • PDF

Design and Implementation of a Mobile Ubiquitous Healthcare System (모바일 유비쿼터스 헬스케어시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Lee, Bong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
    • /
    • v.14 no.3
    • /
    • pp.781-793
    • /
    • 2010
  • Recently, owing to the development of ubiquitous sensor network and mobile communication technologies, many studies on healthcare system are being carried out. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a mobile u-Healthcare system based on sensor network. The u-Healthcare system is composed of three components: wireless sensor network at home, healthcare center located at remote site, and gateway which relays sensing physiological signals to healthcare center. In order to measure patient's physiological signal three sensors are used: three channel ECG sensor, pulse oximeter, and blood pressure sensor. Each sensor is mounted on a mote which can send gathered signal to the base node using Zigbee communication protocol. Once the base node receives physiological signal from each sensor, the client in the base node transfers the signal to the healthcare center. The received physiological signal at the healthcare center is analyzed and processed using various algorithms. The processed results are compared to the standard healthcare database and appropriate treatment including dietetics and exercise cure would be sent to the patient as feedback using SMS message or healthcare center web site. Each patient can check and manage one's health state every day using the healthcare system and gain a recovery under the treatments from minor health problems.