Athina Lazakidou

Wireless Technologies for Ambient Assisted Living and Healthcare: Systems and Applications

ABSTRACT This chapter presents the concept of Smart Home, describes the Smart Home networking technologies and discusses the main issues for ensuring security in a Smart Home environment. Nowadays, the integration of current communication and information technologies within the dwelling has led to the emergence of Smart Homes. These technologies facilitate the building of Smart Home environments in which devices and systems can communicate with each other and can be controlled automatically in order to interact with the household members and improve the quality of their life. However, the nature of Smart Home environment, the fact that it is always connected to the outside world via Internet and the open security back doors derived from the household members raise many security concerns. Finally, by reviewing the existing literature regarding Smart Homes and security issues that exist in Smart Home environments, the authors envisage to provide a base to broaden the research in Smart Home security.

Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health

Recent developments in e-health have enhanced the healthcare industry as well as expanded the role of medical informatics. These emerging innovations have not only given patients the opportunity for quality of life improvement, but also opened the door to health communication exploration. The Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health provides comprehensive coverage of the most important issues, concepts, new trends, and advanced technologies in healthcare. This enhanced resource of over 30 articles from 84 international experts contributes a compendium of terms, definitions, and explanations for academicians and health professionals worldwide.

Quality Assurance in Healthcare Service Delivery, Nursing and personalized Medicine: Technologies and Processes

Athina Lazakidou, Ph.D, currently works at the University of Peloponnese, Department of Nursing in Greece as Lecturer in Health Informatics and at the Hellenic Naval Academy as a Visiting Lecturer in Informatics. She worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (2000-2002) and at the Department of Nursing at the University of Athens (2002-2007). She did her undergraduate studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece) and received her BSc in Computer Science in 1996. In 2000, she received her Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Benjamin Franklin at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. She is also an internationally known expert in the field of computer applications in health care and biomedicine, with six books, and numerous papers to her credit. She was also Editor of the Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine and Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health, the best authoritative reference sources for information on the newest trends and breakthroughs in computer applications applied to health care and biomedicine. Her research interests include health informatics, e-Learning in medicine, software engineering, graphical user interfaces, (bio)medical databases, clinical decision support systems, hospital and clinical information systems, electronic medical record systems, telematics, and other web-based applications in health care and biomedicine. Athina Lazakidou (University of Peloponnese, Greece) and Andriani Daskalaki (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany)

The IPOEE-MED solution: a web-based educational environment for medicine

This paper presents the development process of a web-based educational environment, named Integrated Professor Oriented Educational Environment for Medical Education (IPOEE-MED), using the approach of the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which is a modern, object-oriented software development methodology. The IPOEE-MED addresses mainly to the faculty members who are novices in computer use and programming and gives them the ability to compose and develop lessons and learning applications through reusing pre-development components and multimedia information, setting the professor in the centre of the teaching process using the new technology. The solution proposed in this paper is a complementary educational method and gives emphasis on the reinforcement of learning in medical education. A pilot demonstration is currently running, for biology and pathology courses at the Medical School of Athens in Greece.Dieser Beitrag bildet den Entwicklungsprozess eines Web-basierten Lern- und Lehrsystems mit dem Namen Integrated Professor Oriented Educational Environment for Medical Education (IPOEE-MED) ab. Dabei werden Unified Modelling Language (UML) und Rational Unified Process (RUP), welcher eine moderne objektorientierte Methode zur Softwareentwicklung darstellt, miteinander kombiniert. IPOEE-MED ist ein benutzerfreundliches System für Mediziner, die Anfänger in Computergebrauch und -programmierung sind. Die Lösung, die in diesem Beitrag vorgeschlagen wird, ist eine ergänzende pädagogische Methode und legt das Hauptgewicht auf die Unterstützung beim Lernen im Rahmen der medizinischen Ausbildung.

Computer-supported collaborative work systems and communication services in healthcare

This paper aims to present the next step of our research on empowering the IPOEE-MED collaborative environment. This is a learning environment developed to facilitate a professors role while providing medical education to medical students through collaborative settings. Here, we extend its features in order that it can enrich the professor-to-student collaboration with real cases as they apply their knowledge in hospital departments. We call it IPOEE-MED plus as it maintains the main features of our initial web-based tool, adding valuable modules and addressing it to a broader usage. It combines both educational and health-protective purposes in a cost-effective way. The estimated benefits concern all visible and invisible poles of collaboration as the empowered tool we propose can enrich the learning content as well as the in-time evaluation of the learning process. The latter advances a new practice for effective medical treatment by the graduate students while enhancing important theoretical issues of case-based learning.