Background Lifestyle diseases, because of adverse health behavior, are the foremost cause
of death worldwide. An eCoach system may encourage individuals to lead a healthy lifestyle …

Purpose Health-care ontologies and their terminologies play a vital role in knowledge
representation and data integration for health information. In health-care systems, Internet of …

Wearable sensors and social networking platforms play a key role in providing a new
method to collect patient data for efficient healthcare monitoring. However, continuous …

Ubiquitous healthcare is the service that offers health-related information and contents to
users without any limitations of time and space. Especially, to offer customized services to …

Over the past 30 years, information technology has gradually transformed the way health
care is provisioned for patients. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an …

Healthcare remote monitoring applications dominate the market of new technologies due to
their valuable aid to patients, families, and medical staff. They provide ubiquitous remote …

Millions of adults have diabetes across the globe and the overall cost for managing diabetic
patients has reached up to approximately 250 million. A major constraint in existing ontology …

Nowadays, the enormous volume of health and fitness data gathered from IoT wearable
devices offers favourable opportunities to the research community. For instance, it can be …

Continuous health monitoring is a hopeful solution that can efficiently provide health-related
services to elderly people suffering from chronic diseases. The emergence of the Internet of …

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