ABSTRACT
Pervasive health care (PHC) is a new health care model that
enables patient mobility, continuous health monitoring, and timely
detection of anomalies. Comparing with the ideal PHC services, the
current available (commercial) remote patient monitoring services
such as portable monitoring equipment and prototype systems
need to be improved in real-time capability, effectiveness, and
reliability of context-sensitive anomaly detection. This chapter
addresses the PHC system architecture and anomaly detection
techniques for chronic diseases; a pervasive cardiac care (PCC)
prototype that supports real-time indoor and outdoor continuous
cardiac arrhythmias monitoring service health care models is
presented. Moreover, this chapter explores key PHC technologies
such as architecture model and system, including context-aware
recognition, abnormal detection, and adaptive environment, etc.