Ubiquitous Computing rückt immer mehr in das Interesse von Wissenschaft und Praxis. DerBeitrag versucht aufzuzeigen, was unter dem Themenbereich zu verstehen ist, was verwandteBegriffe sind und was sich hinter der Vision des Ubiquitous Computings verbirgt.[...]

In this paper we describe a generic model of a patient health portal, which is suitable to implement patient access to the evolving German healthcare telematics infrastructure. The portal uses the telematics as a communication infrastructure to ensure the concise and secure exchange of medical...

Our analysis of seven companies from the German medical engineering industryrevealed that product-service-systems play a central role in value creation. Customer solutionsare highly individual and often consist of a medical product and corresponding servicesspanning the complete product life...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for overcoming interoperability issues and especially for extending the IT support of business processes to devices. It is based on the encapsulation of devices as services, and therefore on design principles of service oriented...

Service oriented device architecture (SODA) is a promising approach for enabling a continuous IT support of medical processes in hospitals. However, there is a lack of specific design patterns for realizing the concept in an effective and efficient way. This paper addresses this research gap by...