Emerging wireless technologies in e-health: Trends, challenges, and framework design issues

Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, ICMCS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 440-445

  El Khaddar, Mehdia Ajana ^a   Harroud, Hamid ^b   Boulmalf, Mohammed ^c   Elkoutbi, Mohammed ^a   Habbani, Ahmed ^a  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b AL AKHAWAYN UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RABAT   (Morocco)

Author keywords

e health; m health; RFID; telemedicine; Ubiquitous Computing; wireless communications; WSN

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL HISTORY; COMPUTING SOLUTIONS; DAILY LIVES; DESIGN ISSUES; EHEALTH; EMERGING WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; FUTURE TRENDS; HEALTHCARE DOMAINS; MEDICAL DATA; MHEALTH; RIGHT INFORMATION; UBIQUITOUS HEALTH CARE; UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; WSN;

HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; MESH NETWORKING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); TELEMEDICINE; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WI-FI; WIMAX; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

EID: 84869803375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMCS.2012.6320276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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