Keynote Speaker

Abstract

The application of ICT in Healthcare: Benefits, Challenges and further Opportunities

Biography

Loukianos Gatzoulis, PhD, is a Scientific Officer at the ICT for Health Unit of the European Commission. He is responsible for eHealth research activities in the area of Personal Health Systems. He has a background in Biomedical Engineering and Wireless Communications. He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK, for work on intravascular ultrasound imaging. He subsequently worked at the wireless telecoms sector in the UK and as post-doc research fellow at the University of Strathclyde, UK. His research interests include medical imaging, sensor networks, wireless technologies and wearable eHealth systems.

Abstract

Is 'Pervasive Healthcare' old wine on a new bottle - or is it a real, but emerging, research discipline?

Biography

Jakob E. Bardram is a professor at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). Prior to this position, he was an associate professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus and the manager of the Danish Centre for Pervasive Healthcare. His research interests are Pervasive Computer Systems, Object Oriented Software Architecture, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW); and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The main application area of this research is within healthcare, especially Pervasive Healthcare.

In the summer of 2006 he co-founded the company C3A Medical which specialize in the development of pervasive computing technology for hospitals, and he has also help found CLC Bio which develops bioinformatics software.

Jakob E. Bardram has previously held positions as project manager and IT architect at IBM Denmark, where he architected and managed several e-business projects. And he has been an industrial research fellow at CSC Scandihealth, where he worked with software architectures for cooperative systems in hospitals.