Authors:
Heinz-Josef Eikerling
1
;
Gernot Gräfe
1
;
Florian Röhr
1
and
Walter Schneider
2
Affiliations:
1
Siemens AG SIS C-LAB, Germany
;
2
Paderborn University C-LAB, Germany
Keyword(s):
Disease management, Embedded systems, Middleware, AmI, Ambient intelligence.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Data Engineering
;
Development of Assistive Technology
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
e-Business
;
e-Health
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Health Information Systems
;
ICT, Ageing and Disability
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Mobile Technologies
;
Mobile Technologies for Healthcare Applications
;
Neural Rehabilitation
;
Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Sensor Networks
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Healthcare is an important aspect of ambient life. As the life expectation increases and thus diseases statistically become more frequent, the high-quality and cost-effective management of such diseases becomes a societal task. Within this paper we examine issues and requirements stemming from the implementation of disease management systems. Such systems critically depend on acceptance, costefficiency and other criteria that – through those requirements – are addressed by the Hydra multi-domain middleware. Hydra aims at the seamless integration of embedded systems such as bio-medical sensors and other domain-specific and generic equipment. We motivate and demonstrate the use of the middleware in the healthcare sector by means of a disease management system relying on the easy integration and proper configurability of applications running on the included measuring and controlling devices.