eHealth
Complex and chronic illnesses, such as Cancer demand the use of specialist treatment protocols, administered and monitored by a co-ordinated team of professionals. Home based care of chronic illnesses (e.g. cancer patients) by a team of professionals is often a necessity, due to the protracted length of the illness. Hospital based treatment is limited, often demand based for short periods of time. As it is not possible for the health care team to be physically present by the patient at all times, or at any time physically together, whilst the patient is undergoing treatment, a principal aim of the current project is to overcome this problem, through DITIS. DITIS is a system that supports Virtual Medical Teams dealing with the home-healthcare of cancer patients in Cyprus. It aims to support the creation, management and co-ordination of virtual medical teams, for the continuos treatment of the patient at home, and if need for periodic visits to places of specialist treatment and back home.
Related Publications
Book Chapters
Georgiadis D., Germanakos P., Mourlas C., Samaras G., & Christodoulou E. (2009) "Dynamic Business Processes and Virtual Communities in Wireless eHealth Environments", A chapter to appear in: Ubiquitous and Medical Informatics: Advancements in Web 2.0, Health 2.0 and Medicine 2.0. S. Mohammed, & J. Fiaidhi (Eds.), IGI Global, Hershey, USA, pp. 431-456
Georgiadis D., Germanakos P., Samaras G., Mourlas C., & Christodoulou E. (2009) "An Intelligent Web-based Healthcare System: The Case of DYMOS", A chapter to appear in: Web-based Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine of the Annals of Information Systems Series (AoIS). A. Lazakidou (Ed.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 19-46
Georgiadis D., Germanakos P., Andreou P., Samaras G. (2009) "Evaluation Metrics for eHealth Services and Applications within Smart Houses Context", Springer Science Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.5597, Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City, pp. 245-248, 2009
N. Panteli, B. Pitsillides, A. Pitsillides, G. Samaras (2006) "An E-healthcare Mobile application: A Stakeholders’ analysis", submitted for publication in the edited collection “in Web Mobile-Based Applications for Healthcare Management” (Editor Dr Latif Al-Hakim), Book chapter, Idea Group, 2006, pp. 101-117
A. Pitsillides, B. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, M. Dikaiakos, , E. Christodoulou, P. Andreou, D. Georgiades (2005) "A Collaborative Virtual Medical Team for Home Healthcare of Cancer Patients", Book Chapter, M-Health: Emerging Mobile Health Systems, Ed. by R. Istepanian, S. Laxminarayan, C.S. Pattichis, Springer Science, pp. 247-167, 2005.
B. Pitsillides, A. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, M. Nicolaou (2005) "DITIS: Virtual collaborative teams for improved home healthcare", Book Chapter in 'VIRTUAL TEAMS: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS', edited by K.Chandrasekar, ICFAI UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005.
A. Pitsillides, B. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, M. Nicolaou, P. Andreou, R. Avgousti (2004) "Enhanced Home Care through DITIS's Dynamic Creation and Management of Virtual Healthcare Teams", ACM SAC 2004
B. Pitsillides, A. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, E. Christodoulou, N. Panteli, P. Andeou, D. Georgiades (2004) "User Perspective Of Ditis: Virtual Collaborative Teams For Home-Healthcare", IOS press book series "Studies on Health Technology and Informatics", 100th "Golden" volume, Current Situation and Examples of Implemented and Beneficial E-Health Applications, 2004, 268 pp., hardcover ISBN: 1 58603 448 0.
Journals
L. Santos, C. Christophorou, E. Christodoulou, G. Samaras, J. Dias. (2014) "Development Strategy of an Architecture for E-Health Personalised Service Robots", IADIS International Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems, 2014, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, Pages: 1-18, ISSN: 1646-3692
A. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, B. Pitsillides, D. Georgiades, P. Andreou, E. Christodoulou (2006) "Virtual Collaborative Healthcare Teams for Home Healthcare", Journal of Mobile Multimedia (JMM), special issue on Advanced Mobile Technologies for Health Care Applications, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 023-036, 2006
Conferences and Workshops
Kleanthous, S., Christophorou, C., Tsiourti, C., Dantas, C., Wintjens, R., Samaras, G. and Christodoulou, E. (2016) "Analysis of Elderly Users’ Preferences and Expectations on Service Robot’s Personality, Appearance and Interaction", HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, pp. 35-44
Georgiadis, D., Christophorou, C., Kleanthous, S., Andreou, P., Santos, L., Christodoulou, E., Samaras, G. (2016) "A Robotic Cloud Ecosystem for Elderly Care and Ageing Well: The GrowMeUp Approach", XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016, Springer-verlag, pp. 913-918
Christophorou, C., Georgiadis, D., Andreou, P., Kleanthous, S., Cereghetti, D.M., Meijers, J., Samaras, G. (2016) "ICT Systems and Services for Ageing Well: Identification and Assessment of an Important Set (Package) of ICT Services for Active Ageing and Independent Living", XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016, Springer-verlag, pp. 897-902
L. Santos, D. Portugal, E. Christodolou, G. Samaras, P. Alvito, J. Dias (2014) "Personalizable ICT-based Service Provision: The SocialRobot Solution", AmI 2014 International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell'14), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 11, 2014
L. Santos, J. Dias, C. Chistophorou, E. Christodoulou, G. Samaras (2014) "On the Development Strategy of an Architecture for eHealth Service Robots", International Conference e-Health 2014, 17–19 July, Lisbon, Portugal. (Best Paper Award)
C. Christophorou, P. Alvito, P. Andreou, E. Christodoulou, J. M. Dias, G. Samaras (2012) "SocialRobot: Elderly Home Care and Socialization", AAL Forum 2012 Tomorrow is Sight: From Design to Delivery, 24 -27 September 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
R. Beumers, C. Tsiourti, P. Koster, I. Olalde, E. Christodoulou, C. Wings, G. Samaras (2012) "Co-Living: Innovative end-user driven ICT platform for active social living", AAL Forum 2012 Tomorrow is Sight: From Design to Delivery, 24 -27 September 2012, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
C. Christophorou, P. Alvito, G. Samaras, J. M. Dias, E. Christodoulou (2012) "SocialRobot: Elderly Home Care and Socialization", People 2012 Programme Marie Curie – SCIENCE: Knowledge Research Innovation, PEOPLE CONFERENCE 2012, 5-6 November 2012, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Flood D., Germanakos P., Harrison R., Mc Caffery F., Samaras G. (2012) "Estimating Cognitive Overload in Mobile Applications for Decision Support within the Medical Domain", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2012), Wroclaw, Poland, June 28 – July 1, 2012, pp. 103-107
C. Christophorou, C. Tsiourti, P. Andreou, E. Christodoulou, G. Samaras, R. Beumers, J. M. Dias (2012) "SoCo-net: Social Care Community Network", AAL Summit 2012: Market and policy development for an aging society, 27 – 29 June 2012, Euskalduna Conference Centre, Bilbao, Spain
E. Christodoulou, G. Samaras, E. Polydorou, C. Tsiourti, & M. Belk (2010) "Building Virtual Care Communities Supporting Elderly Socialization and Independent Living by integrating mobile wireless ICT based services", Conference Proceedings of Med-e-Tel 2010, Luxenburg 14-16 April 2010
Georgiadis D., Germanakos P., Andreou P., & Samaras G. (2009) "Evaluation Metrics for eHealth Services and Applications within Smart Houses Context", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST 2009), Tours, France, July 1-3, 2009, LNCS, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 245-248
C. Kouta, E. Christodoulou, C. Kaite, E. Theodoulidou, G. Neokleous, G. Samaras (2009) "MELCO - Mobile Elderly Living Community: Identifying the needs", 36th Panhellenic Nursing Conference, 4-7 May 2009, Mykonos, Greece
A. Pitsillides, E. Themistokleous, G. Samaras, S. Walderhaug, O. M. Winnem (2007) "Overview of MPOWER: Middleware platform for the cognitively impaired and elderly", IST-Africa 2007 Conference, Maputo, Mozambique, May 2007.
A. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, D. Georgiades, P. Andreou, E. Christodoulou, B. Pitsillides (2007) "Tele-homecare Supported by the DITIS Collaborative Platform", IST-Africa 2007 Conference, Maputo, Mozambique, May 2007.
C.S. Pattichis, E. Kyriacou, A. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, C.N. Schizas, M. Neophytou, C. Antoniades, A. Kouppis, V. Tanos, A. Jossif (2004) "Experience with Healthcare Telematics in Cyprus", Proceedings of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Special Topic Conference, Ed. By B. Blobel, G. Gunther, C. Hidebrand, R. Engelbrecht, , Munich, Germany, pp. 18-19, 13-16 June 2004
B. Pitsillides, A. Pitsillides, G. Samaras, D. Georgiades, P. Andreou, N. Panteli (2003) "DITIS: A Collaborative System to Support Home Care by a Virtual Multidisciplinary Team", 8th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC-2003), The Hague, Netherlands, April 2-5, 2003
Pattichis, C., Schizas, C., Dimopoulos, Y., Samaras, G., Christodoulou, C., Karaolis, M., Pantziaris, M., Pattichis, M., Nicolaides, A. (2000) "Evaluation of the Risk of Stroke by Telemedicine", World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Scientific Session: WE-A201-01 Telecom, Telemetry & High Speed Data Transmission, Track: 04, Medical Informatics and Biomedical Information Technology, Chicago, USA, July 23-28, 2000
Andreas Pitsillides, George Samaras, Marios Dikaiakos, Eleni Christodoulou (1999) "DITIS: Collaborative Virtual Medical team for home healthcare of cancer patients", Conference on the Information Society and Telematics Applications, Catania, Italy, 16-18 April 1999. (Invited)
Studies
E. Chistodoulou, G. Samaras (2007) "Next steps in developing Information Society Services in the New Member States: The cases of eHealth and eGovernment", European Institute of Prospective Technological Studies, 2006 - 2007 (110 Pages)
Contact phone: +375 22 89 26 98