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Ubiquitous computing technologies are being applied in many fields of business and institutions, varying from small intelligent spaces to large virtual enterprises. In particular, such technologies can be successfully used in health care facilities in order to reduce medical costs and improve quality of service. This paper presents an infrastructure for pervasively accessing Electronic Health Records (EHR) in a hospital. It relies on services which integrate Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) and photosensor technologies for identifying, locating and tracking doctors and patients equipped with mobile devices and RFID tags, with the final aim of granting ubiquitous and transparent access to medical data stored into standard EHRs.
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Esposito, M., Gallo, L., Coronato, A., Della Vecchia, G. (2009). An Infrastructure for Pervasive Access to Clinical Data in eHospitals. In: Damiani, E., Jeong, J., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 226. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02937-0_40
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