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A Comprehensive View of the Technologies Involved in Pervasive Care

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Future Visions on Biomedicine and Bioinformatics 1

Part of the book series: Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics ((CMCC,volume 1))

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It is widely accepted that the application of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the healthcare environment leads to an improvement in medicine and healthcare delivery. The ageing of population, the prevalence of chronic condition, and other societal changes, as well as advancements in science and technology, require an evolution in healthcare delivery from centralized, general and reactive care, towards distributed, personalized and preventive care. The application of ICT can address these new scenarios but it is needed a methodological approach to establish common guidelines so that the developed systems are interoperable, reusable and future-proof. In this chapter, we present a methodology based on Open Distributed Processing (ODP) and standards to address the complexity of design and development of distributed systems in healthcare. This methodology specifies systems according to decomposition in viewpoints, each one focused on particular issues. We test this method by applying it to the general healthcare domain and particularizing it for a specific use case of an ICT application, a pervasive care system. We describe both the technology neutral viewpoints and those dependent on it.

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This work was supported in part by the Spanish National Board of Health Research (Instituto de Salud Carlos III), under grant PI082023, and by the General Directorate of Innovation, Science and Enterprising (Government of Andalucía), under grant P08-TIC-04069.

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  1. CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Laura María Roa Romero, Miguel Ángel Estudillo Valderrama & Jorge Calvillo Arbizu

  2. CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Luis Javier Reina Tosina

  3. CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Area of Telematic Engineering, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Isabel Román Martínez

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  1. Care Compunetics (ICMCC), International Council on Medical &, Stationsstraat 38, Utrecht, 3511 EG, Netherlands

    Lodewijk Bos

  2. , Head of KTP Unit, University of Westminster, Regent Street 309, London, W1B 2UW, United Kingdom

    Denis Carroll

  3. , Center for Information Assurance Educati, National Defense University, 300 5th Avenue SW, Marshall Hall, Washington, DC, 20319-5066, USA

    Luis Kun

  4. VMW Solutions Ltd, Northlands Road, Whitenap 9, Romsey, SO51 5RU, United Kingdom

    Andrew Marsh

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    Laura M. Roa

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Roa Romero, L.M., Reina Tosina, L.J., Estudillo Valderrama, M.Á., Calvillo Arbizu, J., Román Martínez, I. (2011). A Comprehensive View of the Technologies Involved in Pervasive Care. In: Bos, L., Carroll, D., Kun, L., Marsh, A., Roa, L. (eds) Future Visions on Biomedicine and Bioinformatics 1. Communications in Medical and Care Compunetics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/8754_2010_8

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