uMED: Uma Arquitetura para Desenvolvimento de Software Direcionada `a Medicina Ubíqua

Abstract

The ubiquitous medicine has the premisse to provide access to health services at any time, without restriction of location enhancing the mobility of doctors, nurses and other health professionals. These professionals need tools for information access, both at the site where the patient, either in other locations. The aim of this paper is to propose an infrastructure that integrates sensors and computing devices (mobile and fixed), considering the ubiquitous environment provided by a middleware and software architecture with context elements awareness, and also with the capacity acting on them. This architecture is called uMED, and their target applications will include monitoring vital signs of patients considering a typical work environment of staff working in medical emergencies. It is also being made to allow health professionals to remotely control (actuation) medical equipments. From the monitoring and/or actuation features, the intention is to enable an improvement in work routines of health professionals, helping to reduce the high percentage of nomadism and fragmentation of its activities. The uMED architecture is being designed with the perspective of being integrated with middleware EXEHDA. In order to evaluate the software architecture proposed for uMED, was developed a case study aimed at clinical follow-up of patients