TY - CHAP A1 - Opazo Basaez, Marco A1 - Ghulam, Sarfaraz A1 - Arias Aranda, Daniel A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Smart healthcare services: a patient oriented cloud computing solution N2 - Objectives/rationale: Healthcare systems all over the world are facing difficult challenges that have a direct impact and influence the delivery of healthcare services. As a response healthcare institutions are relying in the implementation of Information and communication technologies (ICTs) to overcome difficulties and satisfy patients’ demands in a cost-effective way adopting new technologies capable to innovate, extend, and redefine the way healthcare has been delivered for decades. New technological innovations such as Internet of things (IoT), Smart item technology, and cloud computing can improve the traditional e-healthcare system and extend service provision beyond the hospital facilities by using wireless sensor networks (WSN) and radio frequency identification devices (RFID), providing a new type of services advertised as “smart.” This type of services, enable doctors to treat patients remotely and allows people to do their normal daily routines, occupations, and activities while receiving appropriate, timely, and high-quality ubiquitous healthcare services. Methods: An exploratory study is performed to review the route towards smart healthcare services, emphasizing the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and smart item technology as enhancers for smart healthcare services provision. Results/findings: A new technological infrastructure promises to transform medical practice and disease prevention by empowering healthcare institutions with smart items for remote patient monitoring eliminating time-wasting procedures, reducing health costs, improving quality of service and patients satisfaction. Implications/conclusions: Traditional e-healthcare system is transitioning into an interconnected smart-healthcare system potentiated by new technological advances capable to extend healthcare service provision and offer smart healthcare services. KW - Healthcare KW - Cloud Computing Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275274958_Smart_healthcare_services_a_patient_oriented_cloud_computing_solution ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir A1 - Barnawi, Ahmed A1 - Ghulam, Sarfaraz A1 - Schubert, Johannes A1 - Tamm, Gerrit T1 - Smart Items, Fog and Cloud Computing as Enablers of Servitization in Healthcare JF - Sensors & Transducers N2 - In this article we argue that smart items and cloud computing can be powerful enablers of servitization as business trend. This is exemplified by an application scenario in healthcare that was developed in the context of the OpSIT-Project in Germany. We present a three-level architecture for a smart healthcare infrastructure. The approach is based on a service-oriented architecture and extends established architectural approaches developed previously at our group. More specifically, it integrates a role model, a layered cloud computing architecture, as well as a fog-computing-informed paradigm in order to provide a viable architecture for healthcare and elderly-care applications. The integration of established paradigms is beneficial with respect to providing adequate quality of service and governance (e.g., data privacy and compliance). It has been verified by expert interviews with healthcare specialists and IT professionals. To further demonstrate the validity of this architectural model, we provide an example use-case as a template for any kind of smart sensor-based healthcare infrastructure. KW - Sensors KW - Smart items KW - Cloud computing KW - Fog computing KW - Servitization Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-7184 VL - 185 IS - 2 SP - 121 EP - 128 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ghulam, Sarfaraz A1 - Schubert, Johannes A1 - Tamm, Gerrit A1 - Stantchev, Vladimir T1 - Integrating Smart Items and Cloud Computing in Healthcare Scenarios N2 - Use of cloud computing in healthcare is a promising trend, particularly in utilization of smart items. Access, affordability and quality to proper healthcare is a great challenge in world society. With the utilization of smart sensors, there are possibilities to improve the quality of healthcare services whenever needed. Hence, such smart items services lead to economic advantages for the whole healthcare system. Keeping in mind these opportunities as well as challenges such as security or legal issues, it is important to bring healthcare and IT together. As a result, healthcare business processes need to be modeled in order to provide IT solutions tailored for practice-oriented applications. In this paper, we present a three-level architecture for a smart healthcare infrastructure. Our approach is based on recent literature work and results from conducted expert interviews with healthcare specialists and IT professionals. To demonstrate the applicability of this architecture model, we provide an example use-case as a template for any kind of smart sensor-based healthcare infrastructure. KW - Healthcare KW - Smart Items KW - Cloud Computing Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284430113_Integrating_Smart_Items_and_Cloud_Computing_in_Healthcare_Scenarios ER -