E-Health: Chances and Challenges of Distributed, Service oriented Architectures

Authors

  • Christoph Thuemmler Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Applied E-Health, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh, UK
  • Lu Fan Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK
  • William Buchanan Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK
  • Owen Lo Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK
  • Elias Ekonomou Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK
  • Abou Sofyane Khedim Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Applied E-Health, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh, UK

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jcsm2245-1439.113

Keywords:

E-Health, SOA, distributed system, DACAR PaaS

Abstract

Societies are undergoing unprecedented demographic and socio-economical changes on a pace that has never been experienced before. Health care models are in transition to remain affordable for governments and individuals. Mobile technology and cloud computing will play a major role in order to help to achieve the necessary level of virtualization and service aggregation. There are, however, technological challenges in terms of security, trust, user friendliness and deployment of innovative E-Health strategies.

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Author Biographies

Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Applied E-Health, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh, UK

Christoph Thuemmler is Professor of E-Health at Edinburgh Napier University and Specialist for General Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. He has studied Medicine, Political Science and Education at Heidelberg University andSUNYat Stony Brook and practiced Medicine in Germany and the UK before developing an interest in computing. Christoph developed an interest in patient flow models and flow monitoring techniques before working on RFID and other smart devices in the healthcare wellness and ambient assisted living industry. In 2009 he was awarded a major grant for research on data capture and auto identification in acute care models and was accepted into the European Knowledge Cluster on the Internet of Things IERC. Over the last 3 years Christoph worked on cloud models to converge the IOT with other elements of the Future Internet. He has recently served as rapporteur for E-Health on the EU-China IOT expert group.

Lu Fan, Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK

Dr. Lu Fan received the BSc (2003) degree in Computer Networking from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, and the MSc (2005) degree with distinction in IT Software Systems and the PhD (2009) degree in Computer Science from Heriot- Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. His research interests include Distributed Systems, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Digital Forensics, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, and pervasive e-Health applications.
Currently he is a Research Fellow of Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. Also, he is the Technical Lead of the Data Capture and AutoIdentification Reference (DACAR) project. He designed and implemented a Cloud-based e-Health platform, which reinforces the integrity, security, confidentiality and auditability of medical data throughout their life cycle, and facilitates the development, integration, and scalable and cost-effective delivery of e-Health services. The technology excellence of this e-Health E-Health: Chances and Challenges of Distributed, Service oriented Architectures 51 platform is a finalist in the BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2011, and the IET Innovation Awards 2011.

William Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK

William Buchanan is a Professor in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS and the IET. He currently leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security, and works in the areas of security, next generation user interfaces, Web-based infrastructures, e-Crime, intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, e-Health, mobile computing, agent-based systems, and simulation. Bill has one of the most extensive academic sites in the World, and is involved in many areas of novel research and teaching in computing. He has published over 27 academic books, and over 130 academic papers, along with several awards for excellence in knowledge transfer, and for teaching, such as winning at the I (please insert hear sign) my Tutor Awards (Student voted), Edinburgh Napier University, 2011, and has supervised many award winning student projects. He is also the finalist for an IET and a BCS Award for Excellence in 2011.
Presently he is working with a range of industrial/domain partners, including with the Scottish Police, health care professionals and the FSA. As part of the drive to create a World-leading infrastructure for security and cybercrime, he leads the Scottish Centre of Excellence for Security and Cybercrime which brings together a wide range of collaborators, including most of the universities in Scotland, the Scottish Police, the public sector, and a range of SMEs and large organisations. Current work includes initiatives on creating an e-Forensics Cloud across Scotland, and in organising a large-scale Symposium to engage a large number of stakeholders within Scotland, in order to focus on creating a World-leading infrastructure.
He has a long track record in commercialisation activities, including being a co-founder of Inquisitive System, which has progressed from PhD work to a university spin-out, though the Scottish Enterprise funded Proof-of-Concept scheme. This spin-out has also involved patenting novel security software in three territories around the World. His current work includes collaboration of TSB Grants with Microsoft plc on a Aˆ £2 million project which aims to improve the care of the elderly using Trusted Cloud-based services, and with Chelsea andWestminster Hospital on a next generation Health Care platform. This also matches up with other funded projects with the FSA and the Scottish Police.

Owen Lo, Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK

Owen Lo is a PhD research student at Edinburgh Napier University. His current research involves looking at techniques for the simulation of patient data for evaluation of e-Health services along with further research into applying computational techniques for classifying patient risk models. Owen holds a BEng (First Class Hons) degree in Computer Networks and Distributed systems and was awarded the class award during the 2010 Graduation Ceremony at Edinburgh Napier University. Furthermore, he was awarded Lumison Prize at the Young Software Engineer of the Year 2010 Awards on his research in evaluating intrusion detection systems.

Elias Ekonomou, Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Distributed Computing and Security, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh, UK

Elias Ekonomou graduated from the University of Salford with PhD in Computer Science focusing on Security inWireless Sensor Networks (2010). He is also a graduate of the University of Abertay with BSc and MSc in Computing. Elias is currently working as a Research Associate at Edinburgh Napier University focusing in the security and privacy of future e-Health systems. His current project is to integrate e-Health systems designed for either Hospitals or Home Care using cloud-based infrastructures (in collaboration with Microsoft and HoIP.) Elias has a strong interest in e-Health, Information Security and Computer Networks.

Abou Sofyane Khedim, Edinburgh Napier University, Centre for Applied E-Health, Sighthill Campus, Edinburgh, UK

Abou Sofyane Khedim is a Software Engineer, Technical Lead at Kodit Database Ltd. He conducts a multitude of Healthcare projects such as the CareMagic Suite, a web-based healthcare application for hospitals. He worked as Visiting Researcher at Edinburgh Napier University within the DACAR project. He is also co-funder and CTO at Celestor Ltd, an R&D company aiming to provide a public eHealth cloud platform. He has been running his own company, nTec Solution, an IT Contractor, providing consultancy for small SMEs.

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Published

2012-01-10

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Thuemmler C, Fan L, Buchanan W, Lo O, Ekonomou E, Sofyane Khedim A. E-Health: Chances and Challenges of Distributed, Service oriented Architectures. JCSANDM [Internet]. 2012 Jan. 10 [cited 2024 Apr. 23];1(1):37-52. Available from: https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JCSANDM/article/view/6065

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