Table 1.
Summary of the reviewed works compared to our proposal.
| Domain | Interoperability | Scalability | Context-discovery | Net. Dynamics | Reliability | Privacy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target (Ubiquitous) | Interface to other systems/ devices | Middleware | Health Assessment | Mobility / Wireless | Design and Technology | Data protection | Consent Platform | |
| [43] | Covid-19. Clinical settings | N/D | N/D | Machine Learning | Yes / Yes | Focused on predictive models | N/D | N/D |
| [30] | Ebola Clinical settings | N/D | N/D | Machine Learning | No / Yes | High-acuity of monitored data | N/D | N/D |
| [44] | General Clinical settings | Only for devices | N/D | Not clear | Yes / Yes | Notification layer | Yes | N/D |
| [19] | Chronic diseases Clinical settings | N/D | N/D | Pre-defined thresholds | Yes / Yes | Radio communication | N/D | N/D |
| [13] | General Clinical settings | N/D | N/D | Machine Learning | N/D | N/D | N/D | N/D |
| [45] | General. Clinical settings and home | Devices Hospital systems | Yes | Semantic rules | Yes / Yes | MONERE YOAPY protocol | Yes | N/D |
| [46] | COVID-19 Clinical settings | Based on HL7 standard | Yes | Thresholds, Machine Learning, Customizable | No / Yes | IEC standard | Yes | N/D |
| Our work (*) | COVID-19, Clinical settings and home | Devices, Hospital Systems, Policy Health Agencies, Research Institutions. | Yes | Thresholds, NEWS2, Customizable, Machine Learning | Yes / Yes | Embedded EWS agent, Data distribution layer, Event Managment | Yes | Yes blockchain platform |
N/D - not defined. (*) The proposal will be fully-described in Section 5.