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Future health informatics for personalized e-Health services rely on innovative technologies and systems for transparent and continuous collection of evidence-based medical information at any time, from anywhere, and despite the coverage and availability of communication means. We explore Disruption and Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) as a novel approach for next-generation e-Health information exchange where end-to-end homogeneous networking connectivity is not available. This setting can occur in both rural and urban environments and in both disaster events and normal day-to-day life. The ability of DTN to provide in-transit persistent information storage allows the uninterruptible provision of crucial e-Health services overcoming network instabilities, incompatibilities, or even absence for a long duration. We further describe the integration efforts for a DTN proxy on an e-Health application and discuss experiences and lessons learned.
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Spanakis, E.G., Voyiatzis, A.G. (2013). DAPHNE: A Disruption-Tolerant Application Proxy for e-Health Network Environments. In: Godara, B., Nikita, K.S. (eds) Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. MobiHealth 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_10
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