mHealth Ecosystems and Social Networks in Healthcare

Emerging mHealth Ecosystems Based on Innovative Technologies and Services.- Wearable Health Monitoring Systems.- Citizen Engagement in the mHealth Ecosystem Using Mobiles and Wearable Devices.- Innovative mHealth Ecosystems.- Mobile-Health Tool Use and Community Health Worker Performance in the Kenyan Context.- Design of Wearable Health Monitoring Systems.- mHealth Ecosystem Based on a Non-Invasive Commercial Hemodynamic Monitoring System Used for Heart Failure Patients as Portable Point of Care.- How Knowledge Flows Through Social Networks and Communities of Practice in a Healthcare Project.- A Context-Aware Social Networking Platform Built Around the Needs of Elderly Users.- Cost Effectiveness in Healthcare Using Social Networks.- Social Networks and Web-Based Applications in the Healthcare Sector.- Knowledge Sharing in Health Innovation Projects.- Social Networks Medical Image Steganography.- Studying the Information Behavior of Healthcare Professionals in a Greek Private ClinicUsing Social Networks Models.

Athina Lazakidou 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, databases, clinical decision support systems, hospital and clinical information systems, electronic medical record systems, collaborative systems, web-based applications in health care and other areas.

Stelios Zimeras was born in Piraeus, Greece. He received his B.Sc. in Statistics from University of Piraeus, Depart. of Statistics and Insurance Sciences, and his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Statistics from University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Research productivity is summarized in various articles (monographs or in collaboration with other researchers) in International Journals, International Conference Proceedings, International Book Series and International Book Chapters. Since