An Architecture for Ubiquitous Healthcare Service Systems

Ubiquitous healthcare services have been promising lots of benefits to patients and ordinary people in improving patient care and quality of life. With different ideas. different application domains, technical restrictions and not enough application practices, the service systems have been developed somewhat in ad hoc way. In this paper, we group the ubiquitous healthcare services into patient services, physician assistant services and personal healthcare services, and then identify crucial requirements for ubiquitous healthcare service systems most of which need to have. Based on the identified requirements, we have developed a ubiquitous healthcare service system architecture with which various ubiquitous healthcare services can be developed. We also introduce an application system for ubiquitous benign prostatic hyperplasia patient care which has been developed based on the architecture.