Ubiquitous Computing in Healthcare

Abstract

Raising sophistication and cost in medicine and healthcare services is a major global issue, sophisticated ubiquitous computing also called pervasive computing applications are gearing up to this challenge, with sensors embedded into our daily devices it is becoming easier to put these devices in a computing grid and collect patient’s data more frequently than performing a routine checkup. Ubiquitous computing can help manage critical cases because the patients will be monitored more closely and emergency situations will be attended to a lot quicker and the medical experts and the system will be aware of any raising health issue. Ubiquitous computing allows patients records to be accessed anywhere anytime meaning an ambulance can be approaching a scene and pulling up the medical records of patient to act on the issue as it arises. This is could very well be the foundation for smart hospitals or smart healthcare.