Agent Communication Languages: The Current Landscape
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Healthcare Aide: Towards a Virtual Assistant for Doctors Using Pervasive Middleware
PERCOMW '06 Proceedings of the 4th annual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
A Campus-Wide Mobile EMS Information Management System
PERCOMW '06 Proceedings of the 4th annual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
A Programmable Service Architecture for Mobile Medical Care
PERCOMW '06 Proceedings of the 4th annual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
AMON: a wearable multiparameter medical monitoring and alert system
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
A scheme for on-site service provision in pervasive assistive environments
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
End to end secure communication in ad-hoc assistive medical environments using secure paths
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Security management in Wireless Sensor Networks for healthcare
International Journal of Mobile Communications
Smart Agent-Based Hospital Search, Appointment, and Medical Diagnosis
International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications
Secure Electronic Healthcare Records Management in Wireless Environments
Journal of Information Technology Research
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The proliferation of mobile devices has led to their integration into a huge number of assistive environments where they perform a key role. Pervasive environments, built over wireless infrastructures, introduce new possibilities in the healthcare sector realizing the anytime-anywhere access to medical information paradigm. Towards this direction pervasive technology can be deployed in assistive environments, such as home monitoring for elderly or patients. In this paper we describe a policy based architecture that utilizes software agents and wireless sensor technologies to enable remote monitoring of patients and elderly people. We also discuss the technical challenges which directed the decisions with respect to the design of our software prototype architecture. These decisions mainly focus on providing continuous feedback of the patient's condition, while transferring encrypted versions of the necessary medical information in accordance with the increased security and privacy requirements. The presented prototype implementation utilizes advanced network management technologies and software agent engineering in order to operate effectively, to achieve interoperability through the different modules and in order to comply with the imposed (by the legislative framework) increased security and privacy requirements.