Digital assistance services for emergency situations in personalized mobile healthcare: Smart space based approach

Abstract

Recent progress in technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables advanced scenarios for mobile healthcare (m-Health). In this paper, we consider the service intelligence in m-Health (so called smart services). On the one hand, such a service utilizes the telemedicine approach when existing healthcare services (located in hospital) are delivered to remote patients (out of hospital). On the other hand, construction and delivery of a smart service benefit from additional intelligence attributes, beyond a fixed set of healthcare services of a given medical information system. For this promising class of m-Health services, we introduce reference scenarios of personalized assistance for a mobile patient with focus on emergency cases. Our development employs the smart spaces paradigm: patients, medical personnel, healthcare services, and other participants operate within a common networked computing environment and interact by sharing information and its semantics. We contribute design solutions to construct services as smart m-Health spaces.