Pervasive Systems in Healthcare: Education, Decision-making, Patient Engagement, and Security

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PERVASIVE SYSTEMS
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Pervasive Systems
Section A (A1)
The widespread use of Pervasive Computing and Information technologies in the
healthcare sector results in the need of educating the health care providers and the patients. The
training strategy to be adopted in the education sessions is known as participatory e-learning.
The nurse uses the system to make data entries regarding the patients’ medical history, diagnosis,
and lab reports (Stanford, 2002). The patients would effectively use the educational materials to
familiarize themselves with the system to increase their confidence level.
Pervasive systems facilitates the decision-making process through the use of Clinical Decision
Support System. The system provides a platform upon which the medical practitioners use
evidence to arrive at decisions and not opinion-based decisions. According to Greenfield (2010),
nurses require documenting all information regarding a respective patient’s health status in the
EHR. In the documentation process, the nurses use a standardized nursing language entailing
standardized terminologies (Satyanarayanan, 2001).
Patient empowerment and engagement is the cornerstone of determining the impact of
telehealth as well as wireless devices applications on the outcomes of health. It provides a
convenient platform for the improvement of patient engagement. According to Glinkowski, et al.
(2013), lack of patient empowerment and engagement results in an increased rate of mortality
that would have been preventable. Therefore, patients are encouraged to get involved in their
respective healthcare management. Communication and feedback are crucial in patient
engagement through effective management of changes in patient health behaviour. Patient
engagement is increased through the use of telehealth since the health care providers can
conveniently reach their patients; as a result, improving the relationship between the patient and
the healthcare provider.

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The legal concept of telehealth and Information technology application in health sector
through the monitoring is defined by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which
focuses on healthcare technological developments. According to the article pervasive computing
is an economic stimulus package that uses incentives to promote meaningful use of technologies
such as the electronic healthcare records. The technological enactment is majorly aimed at
improving healthcare services of the nation at large (Satyanarayanan, 2001). Vendors of the
wireless as well as communication devices are tasked with ensuring safety and security of the
public health sector are enforced through the issue of telehealth licensure compact. The licensure
compact issued to a specific nurse serves as a multistate license that allows nursing practice
through telehealth in several states remotely.
Pervasive computing platform is not managed by customers but managed by another person on
behalf of the customers. The service providers have advanced their services to reduce the worries
of the customers such us viruses on the data stored in their databases (Munir, 2007). Service
provider only does the work and leaves it in the hands of another person who solves the problem
of provision of dependable computing to another person.
The service providers are not only majoring on acquiring more and more customers but are also
focusing on the wellbeing of the patients in terms security and its compliance. This is achieved
through provisions of a framework or a model that define compliance of security subsystems and
processes (Ranganathan, 2004). Pervasive systems promote best practices in security assurance
in medicine environments. They have established security accreditation mechanism for cloud
computing in their wireless networks
Section A (A2)
Many of the medical service providers today have limited space required for the increasing
number of patients. The demand of the patients outweighs the services from the providers. This

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is a problem that every service provider is looking into to ensure that many of the clients in the
need of the services are satisfied and guaranteed of data expansion regarding volumes.
It's clear that cloud computing has transformed the face of information technology from the
management of owns IT infrastructure to leave the responsibility to someone else (Abowd,
2005). Adoption of the pervasive computing has widely been experienced in many of the
healthcare facilities all around the globe. Pervasive computing is associated with low costs and
flexible business processes (Hoffman, 2013). The concept of cloud computing got way in IT
after the innovation of virtual machines. Further advances were experienced when the
technology was introduced in telecommunications. Researchers have carried study to identify the
impact of pervasive computing to ICT and predict the future of service delivery. Extending
pervasive computing to greater heights, with challenges like security drawbacks being taken into
considerations. Security attacks such as brute force and DOS attacks are of major concern in
future of pervasive computing (Banavar, 2000). Major advancements in pervasive computing
ranging from managements, demand equilibrium and security and compliance make pervasive
systems better suited to the future.
Section A (A3)
Pervasive computing has nurtured the conceptual and the infrastructural arguments about the
computing world in the future days. There is experienced a rapid changed from the indigenous
way of computing (stand-alone computing) to a wireless-based way of computing. The
advantages of cloud-based computing are the driving factors towards the achievement of the
advanced technological level for more diversified services in health sector, higher security
aspects and evolved service provisions. Security in pervasive computing has remained a major
point of focus for those adopting the technology. New medication trends are evolving based on
pervasive computing with service provision across geographically dispersed health environments