TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic group management as an enhancement to emergency healthcare using policies
AU - Schmutzler, Jens
AU - Foley, Christopher
AU - Michaelis, Stefan
AU - Van Der Meer, Sven
AU - Wietfeld, Christian
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Successful medical emergency preventative measures or actual emergency resolution is not entirely down to one individual, but more the result of the establishment and behaviour of a group of individuals and services. This is highly evident in the healthcare domain: the introduction of pervasive healthcare systems allows for the interconnection of various stake holders, such as patients, doctors, medical monitoring services, and the patient's family. Communication within a group can be extremely useful to manage and resolve emergency situations, such as helping a patient affected by a life-threatening hypogylcemic condition. At the same time, it also requires new tools for managing these groups in an effective and secure way. However, as more specialist services become available the management of these groups is increasing in magnitude. This paper defines different group types and proposes a framework, which allows for the dynamic management of such groups using policies. The applicability of this generic framework for the purpose of pervasive healthcare applications is demonstrated by concrete examples and use cases.
AB - Successful medical emergency preventative measures or actual emergency resolution is not entirely down to one individual, but more the result of the establishment and behaviour of a group of individuals and services. This is highly evident in the healthcare domain: the introduction of pervasive healthcare systems allows for the interconnection of various stake holders, such as patients, doctors, medical monitoring services, and the patient's family. Communication within a group can be extremely useful to manage and resolve emergency situations, such as helping a patient affected by a life-threatening hypogylcemic condition. At the same time, it also requires new tools for managing these groups in an effective and secure way. However, as more specialist services become available the management of these groups is increasing in magnitude. This paper defines different group types and proposes a framework, which allows for the dynamic management of such groups using policies. The applicability of this generic framework for the purpose of pervasive healthcare applications is demonstrated by concrete examples and use cases.
KW - Emergency healthcare
KW - JXTA based healthcare group communication system
KW - Multicast island addressing
KW - Policy based group management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=52949131413&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600102
DO - 10.1109/HEALTH.2008.4600102
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52949131413
SN - 9781424422814
T3 - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008
SP - 18
EP - 23
BT - 2008 10th IEEE Intl. Conf. on e-Health Networking, Applications and Service, HEALTHCOM 2008
Y2 - 7 July 2008 through 9 July 2008
ER -