Virtuality Supports Reality for e-Health Applications

Abstract

The “virtualization” process of the reality is unavoidable and cannot be arrested since itgoes deeply towards the process of dematerialization initiate with the post-industrializationera. Formerly, in fact, the power and the richness were in the hands of people with largeamounts of goods or lands, but nowadays are in the hands of people who sell intangibleapplications (software and firmware) or goods with poor material but highly rich contents(notebooks, mobile phones, ipods,..) or even only no matter services (telecom, web,educational,.. companies).Hence the “virtualization” is more and more becoming a so powerful tool that can have thecapability to reproduce, augment and even overcome “ reality” .In this view the “virtuality” , joined to the know-how, is the successful key for newfundamental achievement in really many fields, but some in particular deserve specialattention, i.e. the health-focused disciplines, so important because there are highlyconcentrated the monetary, political and social interests. In this context our aim is to furnishan overview on how nowadays the virtuality supports reality for e-health applications.