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Supporting the Ubiquitous Doctor

Supporting the Ubiquitous Doctor

Carlos Ferraz, Juliana Diniz
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 23
ISSN: 1937-965X|EISSN: 1937-9668|EISBN13: 9781613503027|DOI: 10.4018/ijapuc.2010100101
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Ferraz, Carlos, and Juliana Diniz. "Supporting the Ubiquitous Doctor." IJAPUC vol.2, no.4 2010: pp.1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijapuc.2010100101

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Ferraz, C. & Diniz, J. (2010). Supporting the Ubiquitous Doctor. International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAPUC), 2(4), 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijapuc.2010100101

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Ferraz, Carlos, and Juliana Diniz. "Supporting the Ubiquitous Doctor," International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAPUC) 2, no.4: 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijapuc.2010100101

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Abstract

In health service environments, support to mobility is an important issue, given that the mobility of the medical professionals is inherent to the organizational structure of healthcare entities, such as hospitals and medical centers. The concept of the “Ubiquitous Doctor” refers to a doctor that works anytime, anywhere and uses any computer device. For doing this, the doctor needs support to migrate a work session started on a device to another one, either for convenience (more comfort) or forced (e.g. low battery). This so called ‘session migration’ presents some challenges like preventing from disruption and performing quickly, so the Ubiquitous Doctor’s productivity can be improved. This chapter presents the design and implementation of a contextaware system (middleware services and application) to support the Ubiquitous Doctor, as well as experiments that show that the average migration time represents a low impact on the transition time between medical activities, and an assessment carried out with a group of doctors confirmed the importance of supporting the migration process in order to make it fast and reliable. The doctors also agreed on the importance of using the most convenient device based on context variables like user status and location.

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