5. RelatedWork
Healthcare institutions have recently exploited the advancements in information and communication
technology to provide electronic healthcare services, and in particular remote health monitoring. Over the
past few years, research in the domain of remote health monitoring can be categorized into three main
streams, how data is collected, how data is communicated, and where data processing is performed. We
focus here on work concerning the role of mobile devices and their related technologies.
Kulkarani et al. [12] developed a mobile patient healthcare system that aligns with the essential requirements
and design spaces they derived for pervasive healthcare systems. The role of mobile devices in this
system is limited to a mobile client terminal used to browse healthcare records. The paper proposes a rolebased
access control mechanism to assign the right access privileges to users at login time. Our proposed
approach places the patients at the core of data access control. The prototype we have developed enables