
pmid: 19775976
The need for fast treatment of patients in critical conditions motivates the use of mobile devices to provide prompt and consistent communication between hospitals and physicians. We propose a framework that supports ubiquitous access to medical systems using personalized mobile services and integrated medical systems. The proposed service-oriented medical framework provides dynamically composed services that are adapted to contextual variables such as the user's role, the network bandwidth, and resources available at mobile devices while supporting task allocation in distributed servers for massive resource-consuming services. It also manages accurate patient data by integrating local medical systems using medical information standards such as Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine and Health Level 7. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of our framework by building a prototype of context-based adaptation of computerized tomography image retrieval for acute stroke treatments, which allows images to be viewed on mobile devices with WiMax wireless network. The proposed medical framework reduces hospital delays of patients and facilitates treatments in the absence of medical specialists.
Hospital Communication Systems*, Internet, Telemedicine/methods*, mobile communication, 610, Distributed systems, Telemedicine, Workflow, intelligent Web services, User-Computer Interface, middleware, medical information systems, 616, Hospital Information Systems, Humans, Telemetry, Hospital Communication Systems, Telemetry/methods*, Hospital Information Systems*, Algorithms
Hospital Communication Systems*, Internet, Telemedicine/methods*, mobile communication, 610, Distributed systems, Telemedicine, Workflow, intelligent Web services, User-Computer Interface, middleware, medical information systems, 616, Hospital Information Systems, Humans, Telemetry, Hospital Communication Systems, Telemetry/methods*, Hospital Information Systems*, Algorithms
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