Mining Minds: An innovative framework for personalized health and wellness support

• Published in: 2015 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 1 - 8
• Main Authors: Banos, Oresti, Amin, Muhammad Bilal, Ali Khan, Wajahat, Ali, Taqdir, Afzal, Muhammad, Byeong Ho Kang, Sungyoung Lee
• Format: Conference Proceeding Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ghent ICST 01-10-2015; European Alliance for Innovation (EAI)
• Subjects: Ambient intelligence; big data; Biomedical monitoring; Cloud computing; Construction; context-awareness; Data mining; Digital; digital health; Health; Health care; human behavior; Knowledge base; knowledge bases; Medical services; Mining; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Personalized; Privacy; quantified self; Security; Ubiquitous computing; user experience
• ISBN: 1631900455; 9781631900457
• ISSN: 2411-7145; 2153-1641; 2411-7145
• DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259083

The world is witnessing a spectacular shift in the delivery of health and wellness care. The key ingredient of this transformation consists in the use of revolutionary digital technologies to empower people in their self-management as well as to enhance traditional care procedures. While substantial domain-specific contributions have been provided to that end in the recent years, there is a clear lack of platforms that may orchestrate, and intelligently leverage, all the data, information and knowledge generated through these technologies. This work presents Mining Minds, an innovative framework that builds on the core ideas of the digital health and wellness paradigms to enable the provision of personalized healthcare and wellness support. Mining Minds embraces some of the currently most prominent digital technologies, ranging from Big Data and Cloud Computing to Wearables and Internet of Things, and state-of-the-art concepts and methods, such as Context-Awareness, Knowledge Bases or Analytics, among others. This paper aims at thoroughly describing the efficient and rational combination and interoperation of these modern technologies and methods through Mining Minds, while meeting the essential requirements posed by a framework for personalized health and wellness support.