Authors:
Marc Jansen
1
;
Abbas Siddiqui
2
and
Oliver Koch
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West and Linnaeus University, Germany
;
2
University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West, Germany
Keyword(s):
Personalized Data, Context-awareness, Service Provision, Service Consumption, Middle-ware, eHealth, mHealth.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Context Detection
;
Context-Awareness
;
Mobile Information Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
In societies where the demographic change leads to a more and more unbalanced state between the elderly
and all other different age groups, there, health management becomes one of the most significant problems,
e.g., in order to allow what is often called successful aging. Ubiquitous use of smart mobile devices enables
gathering of personalized data enriched with contextual information. This information can ideally be used in
modern eHealth scenarios, resulting in mobile health (mHealth) scenarios. This paper describes how highly
personalized and sensitive information, such as vital signs enriched with contextual information of a patient,
can be stored at mobile devices and provided via modern web technologies for later-on analysis and health
monitoring. Therefore, this paper presents a number of different scenarios in which such mobile technology
provides certain benefits, discusses benefits, drawbacks and challenges of such an approach and describes
an example implementation of an
mHealth scenario.
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