Knowledge Based Systems for Ubiquitous e-Healthcare

ICT developers have been able to make significant progress in achieving the goal to deliver ubiquitous solutions in internet domain through cloud services architecture. Social networking through mobiles, PDAs, Laptops and other systems has become a norm of modern culture. Knowledge based systems available over the internet have assumed importance for data mining and presentation services for decision support systems. E-Healthcare solutions supported by KBS are often desired by medical professionals and the patients; hence the developers eye an important software development opportunity. A model KBS system for development and testing of evolving m-Health and u-Health paradigms has been presented. The location aware applications acceptable for social networking with access to CSPs and home offices has become a market niche; we have discussed ongoing and projected future developments in ICT industry to cater for mobility of users and desire to remain connected all the time, anywhere. The growing industry towards a collaborative cloud architecture called Sky computing has been discussed. The key to wide acceptability of these developments is the growing confidence of end user through credible service level agreements being offered with guarantees of major ICT players. However a lot has to be done to include provenance and verifiability of service provider to the client satisfaction.