Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare : Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging discipline concerning the application of wireless, mobile, and intelligent technologies to certain healthcare issues. Such issues within healthcare systems include the increased incidence of lifestyle-related diseases and chronic illnesses, the need to educate individuals on the management of their own health, the rise of consumerism in healthcare, and also the need to provide direct access to healthcare services, irrespective of time and place. Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare: Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools provides insight from members of prestigious universities and research institutes around the world into possible solutions for the aforementioned pressures within today's healthcare systems. Pervasive healthcare technologies are creating a new market for higher quality and less expensive healthcare applications, making this book ideal for ICT community members willing to design and develop advanced pervasive healthcare applications, and healthcare practitioners wanting to reorganize business processes within a healthcare system so that patients are diagnosed and treated more quickly and effectively.

Antonio Coronato received the degree in information engineering at the University Federico II of Naples in the 1998. He is a researcher at the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of the italian National Research Council (CNR). He is grant professor of Software Engineering at the University Federico II of Naples and Object Oriented Programming at the Second University of Naples. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Security and Communication Networks, a member of the international editorial board for the Journal of Smart Home, the Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering and the Journal of Software Architecture. He is also involved in the organization of several international conferences on pervasive computing. His research interests are in the field of pervasive computing, middleware and component-based architectures and dependable computing.

Giuseppe De Pietro received the degree in electronic engineering at the University Federico II of Naples in the 1988. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He is grant professor of Information Systems at the Second University of Naples. He is a member of the international editorial board for the Journal of Smart Home and the Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. He is also involved in the organization of several international conferences on pervasive computing. His research interests are in the field of pervasive computing, graphics and virtual reality environments, middleware and component-based architectures, software engineering. He is a member of the IEEE.