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Towards Context-Aware EHR-Based Healthcare Systems

Authors:
Bogdan Nita
Dan Luca Serbanati

Keywords: context aware computing; pervasive healthcare; mobile computing

Abstract:
In the medical world of today, healthcare professionals need to access the Electronic Health Record (EHR) of a patient not only on their desktop computer but also on mobile devices such as smart phones or tablets. Through the use of mobile electronic devices in everyday medical activities, the shortcomings of paper-based medical documents are limited removing the need of transcription or loss of documents and improving access to and search of patient’s medical data. Mobility means awareness of a dynamic context whose richness can be used for infering new information and we believe that context-aware software approach is suitable for the medical world as healthcare professionals mobility is increasing. The proposed approach uses contextual information on the users of software applications involved in healthcare activities, patients and healthcare professionals to provide them with personalized, user-tailored views on the patients’ EHR according to the scenario for which the application has been accessed. We have designed a system capable of perceiving context and reacting to ambiental changes to provide healthcare professionals and patients with EHR data dynamically generated according to the gathered information from the context. The user receives a customized view on the patient’s EHR tailored upon her/his current context.

Pages: 29 to 36

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: July 22, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-215-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 22, 2012 to July 27, 2012