Meet the editor

Dr. Urvashi Sharma has a BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, MSc in Biomedical Engineering, MSc in Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Ph.D. in Healthcare Information Systems. She is driven by her passion to understand how human beings relate to and encounter interventions and innovations within a given context. Over the last seventeen years, Dr. Sharma has worked in different fields and sectors including education as

well as health and social care. Her work has contributed to understanding the role of users and their context in relation to a successful application and use of interventions and/or innovations. She is a proponent of stakeholder engagement and involvement in decision making, and the application of appropriate research methodologies that enable exploration of lived experiences and provide deeper insights into what really matters to users.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Lo Fu Tan*

**Section 3**

Healthcare

*and Anthony Skjellum*

Results from Telehealth *by Malcolm Clarke*

What Can We Expect? *by Sofia Voutsidou*

Emerging from Smoke and Mirrors

**Preface XI**

Remote Patient Monitoring **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 45**

**Chapter 3 61**

A Discourse on Smart and Pervasive Health **85**

**Chapter 4 87**

Digital Platforms and Learning **101**

**Chapter 5 103**

**Chapter 6 121**

xCARE: A Development Platform for Supporting Smart and Pervasive

VIGOR: A Versatile, Individualized and Generative ORchestrator to Motivate the Movement of the People with Limited Mobility *by Yu Liang, Dalei Wu, Dakila Ledesma, Zibin Guo, Erkan Kaplanoglu* 

*by Eloisa Vargiu, Meritxell Gómez-Martínez, Silvia Orte, Laura Ros-Freixedes, Kian Seif, David Marí and Felip Miralles*

E-Health Applications for Smart and Pervasive Healthcare in Greece.

*by Karim Keshavjee, Dustin Johnston-Jewell, Brian Lee and Robert Kyba*

Designing Disease-Specific mHealth Apps for Clinical Value
