Conference article

Personal health monitoring aims to empower citizens’ for their healthcare and wellness. The healthcare devices; connected with healthcare applications; clinical information systems; tele-medicine services; and national medical record systems are evolving into ambient assisted living (AAL) personal healthcare ecosystems. Accordingly; the research and development is gaining significant momentum and expanding multi-disciplinarily; addressing functional; quality-of-service and quality-of-experience aspects. However; most of the current research in AAL focuses on specific aspects of AAL in isolation; lacking overall system design; integration and quality perspectives. Consequently; the evolving solutions fail to achieve one or more essential requirements such as interoperability; integration; usability; security; and dependability. To bridge the gap between requirements and technical services; this paper presents a conceptual framework providing a holistic view of AAL ecosystems. Besides; the system architectures and technology standards are discussed for the proposed CareStore platform for seamless deployment of AAL applications and devices.

Ambient-assisted living; personal health monitor-ing; healthcare systems integration and interoperability