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Context-Aware Medical Systems within Healthcare Environments: A Systematic Scoping Review to Identify Subdomains and Significant Medical Contexts

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  • Michael Zon

    (Michael DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
    School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada)

  • Guha Ganesh

    (School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada)

  • M. Jamal Deen

    (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada)

  • Qiyin Fang

    (School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
    Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada)

Abstract

Context awareness is a field in pervasive computing, which has begun to impact medical systems via an increasing number of healthcare applications that are starting to use context awareness. The present work seeks to determine which contexts are important for medical applications and which domains of context-aware applications exist in healthcare. A systematic scoping review of context-aware medical systems currently used by patients or healthcare providers (inclusion criteria) was conducted between April 2021 and June 2023. A search strategy was designed and applied to Pub Med, EBSCO, IEEE Explore, Wiley, Science Direct, Springer Link, and ACM, articles from the databases were then filtered based on their abstract, and relevant articles were screened using a questionnaire applied to their full texts prior to data extraction. Applications were grouped into context-aware healthcare application domains based on past reviews and screening results. A total of 25 articles passed all screening levels and underwent data extraction. The most common contexts used were user location (8 out of 25 studies), demographic information (6 out of 25 studies), movement status/activity level (7 out of 25 studies), time of day (5 out of 25 studies), phone usage patterns (5 out of 25 studies), lab/vitals (7 out of 25 studies), and patient history data (8 out of 23 studies). Through a systematic review process, the current study determined the key contexts within context-aware healthcare applications that have reached healthcare providers and patients. The present work has illuminated many of the early successful context-aware healthcare applications. Additionally, the primary contexts leveraged by these systems have been identified, allowing future systems to focus on prioritizing the integration of these key contexts.

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  • Michael Zon & Guha Ganesh & M. Jamal Deen & Qiyin Fang, 2023. "Context-Aware Medical Systems within Healthcare Environments: A Systematic Scoping Review to Identify Subdomains and Significant Medical Contexts," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(14), pages 1-22, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:14:p:6399-:d:1197428
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