title: Patient-Centered e-Health Record over the Cloud.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: Konstantinos
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koumaditis
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: Marinos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Themistocleous
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vassilacopoulos
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: Andrianna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prentza
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: Dimosthenis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kyriazis
authors.affiliation: Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: Flora
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Malamateniou
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Nicos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maglaveras
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Ioanna
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chouvarda
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Alexandros
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mourouzis
mesh_terms: D000067917:Cloud Computing; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006115:Greece; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D000072638:Patient Portals; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000458:organization & administration*