Pervasive healthcare

Julie Maitland, Marilyn McGee-Lennon, Maurice Mulvenna
2011 ACM SIGHIT Record  
This purpose of this article is to help the reader understand the research area of pervasive healthcare and pervasive healthcare computing. It defines the term, and discusses the 2011 conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, held in Dublin, Ireland. In particular, it examines the workshops proposed for the conference, highlighting the current exploratory research on the fringe of the area of pervasive computing, before discussing the implications for mainstream healthcare.
doi:10.1145/1971706.1971718 fatcat:iicbb5mjpbcw5gprsrkt7rjvza