Ubiquitous Healthcare Service System with Context-awareness Capability: Design and Implementation

Ubiquitous Healthcare Service System with Context-awareness Capability: Design and Implementation

Recently medical tourism is becoming more popular, as more people realize its benefits. The main benefits of health tourism include getting the opportunity to travel to an exotic destination and reaping potentially big monetary savings (Guide 2007). In ''Industrial Manpower Package for Three-year Head-start Project of Taiwan's Economic Development Visions for 2015'' (Executive Yuan 2006), Ubiquitous Healthcare (U-Health) is meaned it has more commercial potential in Taiwan in the future. Therefore, Taiwan Medical Tourism Development Association (TMTDA) was established to research and hold relevant medical tourism activities in August 2007. However, to date, there are only a few decision support systems (DSS) to provide Nature Medicine Services (NMS) recommendation which include Medical Tourism Service (MTS), Health-life Map Service (HMS), and Curative Food Service (CFS) to reach the target ''Eat, Drink, and Be Merry with Health''.