Patient-Centered e-Health Record over the Cloud
Koumaditis, K.; Themistocleous, M.; Vassilacopoulos, G.; Prentza, A.; Kyriazis, D.; Malamateniou, F.; Maglaveras, N.; Chouvarda, I.; Mourouzis, A.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 202: 193-196
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1879-8365 PMID: 25000049 Document Number: 676386
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Patient-Centered e-Health (PCEH) conceptual aspects alongside a multidisciplinary project that combines state-of-the-art technologies like cloud computing. The project, by combining several aspects of PCEH, such as: (a) electronic Personal Healthcare Record (e-PHR), (b) homecare telemedicine technologies, (c) e-prescribing, e-referral, e-learning, with advanced technologies like cloud computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), will lead to an innovative integrated e-health platform of many benefits to the society, the economy, the industry, and the research community. To achieve this, a consortium of experts, both from industry (two companies, one hospital and one healthcare organization) and academia (three universities), was set to investigate, analyse, design, build and test the new platform. This paper provides insights to the PCEH concept and to the current stage of the project. In doing so, we aim at increasing the awareness of this important endeavor and sharing the lessons learned so far throughout our work.