Table Of ContentLecture Notes of the Institute
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OzgurAkan
MiddleEastTechnicalUniversity,Ankara,Turkey
PaoloBellavista
UniversityofBologna,Italy
JiannongCao
HongKongPolytechnicUniversity,HongKong
FalkoDressler
UniversityofErlangen,Germany
DomenicoFerrari
UniversitàCattolicaPiacenza,Italy
MarioGerla
UCLA,USA
HisashiKobayashi
PrincetonUniversity,USA
SergioPalazzo
UniversityofCatania,Italy
SartajSahni
UniversityofFlorida,USA
Xuemin(Sherman)Shen
UniversityofWaterloo,Canada
MirceaStan
UniversityofVirginia,USA
JiaXiaohua
CityUniversityofHongKong,HongKong
AlbertZomaya
UniversityofSydney,Australia
GeoffreyCoulson
LancasterUniversity,UK
Martin Szomszor Patty Kostkova (Eds.)
Electronic
Healthcare
Third International Conference, eHealth 2010
Casablanca, Morocco, December 13-15, 2010
Revised Selected Papers
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MartinSzomszor
PattyKostkova
CityeHealthResearchCentre(CeRc)
SchoolofCommunityandHealthSciences
CityUniversity,London,EC1V0HB,UK
E-mail:{martin.szomszor.1;patty}@city.ac.uk
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Preface
It is our great pleasure to introduce the special issue of LNSV compiled from
scientificpresentationsattheThirdInternationalICSTConferenceonElectronic
Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth 2010) that took place in Casablanca,
Morocco, during December 13–15, 2010.
Building on the very successful First and Second eHealth conferences, held
in London and Istanbul, respectively, the aim of eHealth 2010 was to bring
togetherexpertsfromacademia,industryandglobalhealthcareinstitutions,such
as the WHO and ECDC, to stimulate cutting-edge research discussions, share
experiencewithreal-worldhealthcareserviceprovidersandpolicymakers,aswell
as provide numerous business and networking opportunities. It is reassuring to
seethatin3years,thiseventhasestablisheditselfasthekeyannualconferencein
thedomainofeHealth,withafast-growingprofessionalandscientificcommunity.
For the first time, eHealth was co-located with two well-established work-
shops: the 5th International Workshop on Personalization for eHealth
(Pers4eHealth2010) and the 6th Workshop on Agents Applied in Healthcare
(A2HC2010).
We accepted 30 full technical presentations by speakers from all over the
world,havingreceivedover70submissionsintotal.These,alongwith12papers
from the 2 collocated workshops, appear in these proceedings and cover a wide
rangeoftopicsincluding:Webintelligence;privacy,trustandsecurity;ontologies
andknowledgemanagement;eLearningandeducation;Web2.0andonlinecom-
munitiesofpractice;andperformancemonitoringandevaluationframeworksfor
healthcare.
We also had the privilege of hosting two prestigious keynote speakers. Na-
jeeb Al Shorbaji from the World Health Organizationdelivereda talk on global
eHealthchallengesandMathewSwindells,theHealthChairoftheBritishCom-
puterSociety,presentedhisexperiencesdesigninganddeliveringlarge-scaleICT
healthcare solutions. Both talks stimulated some interesting discussions, with
many participants making real-time comments via Twitter using the hash-tag
#ehealth2010.
In addition to our two keynote speakers, we invited representatives from a
number of commercial organizations, hospitals, and public health bodies, in-
cludingFrankWartena(PhilipsResearchEurope),FredericLievens(Med-e-Tel,
Luxembourg), Jeremy Nettle (Oracle Corporation), Neill Jones (First Data-
bank UK), Maurice Mars (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Al-
berto E. Tozzi (Bambino Gesu Hospital, Italy), Erik van der Goot (European
Commission—JointResearchCentre,Italy),andSalwaRafee(GlobalHealthcare
& Life Sciences Management Team at IBM, France).
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To encourage discussion and sharing of ideas and opinions between partici-
pants,twopanelswereheldateHealth2010.LaszloBalkanyi(ECDC,Stockholm,
Sweden) organizedthe ePublicHealth Data Interoperability panel that discussed
and explored the possibility of an agenda that would improve the visibility and
usabilityofinformationprovidedby EUpublic healthbodiesthroughinteroper-
abilityofservicesandanadoptionofsharedstandards.Femida Gwadry-Sridhar
(LawsonHealthResearchInstitute,Canada)chairedtheEvidence-BasedeHealth
Applications panel where the utility of novel Web technologies (such as social
media) was debated, in particular how to best provide users with access to the
most accurate and up-to-date information possible.
Furthermore,eHealth2010alsoheldajointPosterandDemosession(chaired
by Edde Quincey andGayoDiallo)– aninformalsessiononthe firsteveningof
theconferencethatallowedparticipantstodemonstrateandsharenewideas.Ten
posters and eight demonstrations were accepted and provided a good catalyst
for discussion among the participants.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone who contributed to making
eHealth2010s such a success: the authors of all submitted papers, the speakers,
the invited and the keynote presenters, the Programme Committee members,
reviewersand Session Chairs and above all the Local Chair,Hassan Ghazal,to-
gether with his student volunteers and local organizers.Finally, we thank ICST
andCreate-Netforsponsoringtheevent,andSpringerforpublishingthisLNSV
book.
Martin Szomszor
Patty Kostkova
Organization
Third International ICST Conference on Electronic
Healthcare
Steering Committee Chair
Imrich Chlamtac President Create-Net ResearchConsortium
Steering Committee Scientific Co-chairs
Patty Kostkova CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan Mobile Networks Research Centre, City
University London, UK
General Co-chairs
Martin Szomszor CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Harini Kulatunga Logica Healthcare Consulting, UK
Clinical Chair
Femida Gwadry-Sridhar Lawson Health ResearchInstitute, Canada
EU Public Health Chair
Laszlo Balkanyi ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden
Poster Chair
Ed de Quincey University of Greenwich, UK
Demo Chair
Gayo Diallo LESIM/ISPED, University of Bordeaux 2,
France
VIII Organization
Local Chair
Hassan Ghazal University Mohammed First, Morocco
Conference Co-ordinator
Gergely Nagy ICST
Technical Programme Committee
Anne Adams The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Dimitra Alexopoulou Technische Universit¨at Dresden, Germany
Elske Ammenwerth UMIT, Austria
Bill Andreopoulos Technische Universit¨at Dresden, Germany
Ricardo Baeza-Yates Yahoo! Research Labs, Barcelona,Spain
L´aszl´o Balka´nyi ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden
Ay¸se Bener Bogazici University, Turkey
Olivier Bodenreider National Institutes of Health,
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, USA
Albert Burger Heriot-Watt University, UK
Juan Chia Worldwide Clinical Trials, London, UK
Vittoria Colizza Colizza Institute for Scientific Interchange
Foundation, Italy
Olivier Corby Institut National De Recherche en
Informatique et en Automatique, France
Ulises Cortes Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Ed De Quincey University of Greenwich, UK
Gayo Diallo Laboratory of Applied Computer Science
LISI-ENSMA(FUTUROSCOPEPoitiers),
France
Charles Doarn University of Cincinnati, USA
Jonathan Elford City University London, UK
Floriana Grasso University of Liverpool, UK
Femida Gwadry-Sridhar University of Western Ontario, Canada
David Hansen eHealth Research Centre, Australia
Jesse Hoey University of Dundee, UK
Alexander H¨orbst University for Health Sciences, Medical
Informatics and Technology, Austria
Gawesh Jawaheer CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Malina Jordanova Solar-TerrestrialInfluencesInstitute,Bulgaria
Organization IX
Simon Jupp University of Manchester, UK
Harald Korb Vitaphone GmbH, Germany
Patty Kostkova CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Harini Kulatunga Logica Healthcare Consulting, UK
Panayiotis Kyriacou City University London, UK
Shirle Large NHS Direct, Hampshire, UK
Lisa Lazareck CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Panos Liatsis City University London, UK
Frederic Lievens Med-e-Tel, Luxembourg
Cecil Lynch UC Davis School of Medicine, USA
Julie Maitland National Research Council, Canada
Corinne Marsolier Internet Business Solutions Group,
Cisco Europe
Maria G. Martini Kingston University, UK
Kenneth McLeod Heriot-Watt University, UK
Henning Mu¨ller University of Applied Sciences Western
Switzerland
Chris Nugent University of Ulster, UK
Venet Osmani Ubiquitous Interaction Group (UBiNT),
CREATE-NET, Italy
Daniela Paolotti Institute for Scientific Interchange
Foundation, Italy
George Polyzos AthensUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness,
Greece
Rob Procter University of Edinburgh, UK
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan Mobile Networks Research Centre,
City University London, UK
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann European Bioinformatics Institute, Welcome
Trust Genome Campus, UK
Blaine Reeder University of Washington, USA
David Rian˜o Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Mike Santer University of Southampton, UK
Heiko Schuldt University of Basel, Switzerland
Tacha Serif Yeditepe University, Turkey
Martin Szomszor CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Adel Taweel Kings College London, UK
Alexey Tsymbal Siemens AG, Germany
Asli Uyar O¨zkaya Bogazici University, Turkey
Eric van der Goot European Commision’s Joint Research
Centre, Italy
Jan Vejvalka Charles University, Czech Republic
X Organization
Dasun Weerasinghe CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Peter Weller City University London, UK
Yeliz Yesilada The University of Manchester, UK
Jennifer Zelmer International Health Terminology Standards
Development Organisation,Denmark
Jana Zvarova EuroMISE, The Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic
5th International Workshop on Personalization
for eHealth
Organizing Committee
Floriana Grasso University of Liverpool, UK
C´ecile Paris CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
Technical Programme Committee
Giuseppe Carenini University of British Columbia, Canada
Ulises Cortes TechnicalUniversityofCataloniaUPC,Spain
Nadja de Carolis University of Bari, Italy
Reva Freedman Northern Illinois University, USA
Nancy Green University of North Carolina Greensboro,
USA
Patty Kostkova CityeHealthResearchCentre,CityUniversity
London, UK
Robin Cohen University of Waterloo, Canada
Tze Yun Leong National University of Singapore
Peter Lucas University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Wendy Moncur University of Aberdeen, UK
Antonio Moreno Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Sara Rubinelli University of Lucerne and Swiss Paraplegic
Research, Switzerland
