Recently, mobile devices have dramatically improved their communications and processing
capabilities, so enabling the possibility of embedding knowledge-based decision support …

Advances in health care technologies are radically impacting the management of chronic
diseases by providing a new long-term care option that combines supportive systems for …

Monitoring chronic patients represent one of the main challenges in healthcare and
information technologies. Knowledge-based and decision support systems seek to facilitate …

Pervasive computing has emerged as a viable solution capable of providing technology-
driven assistive living for elderly. The pervasive healthcare system, Context-Aware Real …

With the recent technological advances, it is possible to monitor vital signs using Bluetooth-
enabled biometric mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or electric wristbands. In this …

In the last years, rule-based systems have been used in mobile health and wellness
applications for embedding and reasoning over domain-specific knowledge and suggesting …

Abstract mHealth applications are becoming more and more advanced, exhibiting
capabilities to deliver innovative health services for improving the individual's comfort …

The average of global life expectancy at birth was 72 years in 2016 [1], however, the global
healthy life expectancy at birth was only 63.3 years in the same year, 2016 [2]. Living a long …

Currently, most of the mobile home care applications are not purposely personalized for a
specific patient, showing difficulties in effectively adapting to his/her actual health status. As …

The rise of Healthcare 5.0 paradigm calls for personalization of care and management of
patients' conditions. Though promising, data-driven techniques may raise some concerns as …