Research Article
Weird Project: E-Health Service Improvement Using WiMAX
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_5, author={Antonio Cimmino and Fulvio Casali and Cinzia Mambretti}, title={Weird Project: E-Health Service Improvement Using WiMAX}, proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. First International Conference, eHealth 2008, London, UK, September 8-9, 2008. Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={E-HEALTH}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_5} }- Antonio Cimmino
Fulvio Casali
Cinzia Mambretti
Year: 2012
Weird Project: E-Health Service Improvement Using WiMAX
E-HEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_5
Abstract
Today the major obstacle to massive deployment of telemedicine applications are the security issues related to the exchange of real time information between different elements that are not at fixed locations. WiMAX, the new standard for wireless communications, is one of the most promising technologies for broadband access in a fixed and mobile environment and it is expected to overcome the above mentioned obstacle. The FP6-WEIRD [1] (WiMax Extension to Isolated Remote Data networks) project has: analysed how this technology can guarantee secure real time data transmission between mobile elements, built some successful demonstrations and paved the way to future commercial applications. This paper in particular describes: main promising e-health applications that WiMax would enable; the technological highlights and the main challenges that WiMax has to face in e-health applications such as accounting, privacy, security, data integrity; the way in which the WEIRD project 0 has studied the wireless access to medical communities and equipment in remote or impervious areas. 0 0; some envisaged implementations.