Preface for the Special Issue on uHealthcare

The annual growth of the world’s economy in addition to recent achievements in the fields of medicine that have primarily targeted at improving general levels of the quality of health are contributing to the increase of growth in the numbers of older people within our population. The negative effect of this growth within the population is the increased financial burden which is being placed on health and social care services. An opportunity is therefore available to address a range of these challenges through the introduction of ubiquitous Healthcare (uHealthcare). uHealthcare involves the automatic and intelligent provision of healthcare services through deployments of innovative and pervasive technological solutions in an everywhere and any time fashion.