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Annals of Information Systems 20 Athina A. Lazakidou Stelios Zimeras Dimitra Iliopoulou Dionysios-Dimitrios Koutsouris E ditors mHealth Ecosystems and Social Networks in Healthcare Annals of Information Systems Volume 20 Series Editors Ramesh Sharda Oklahoma State University Stillwater , OK , USA Stefan Voß Universität Hamburg Hamburg , Germany More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/7573 Athina A. Lazakidou Stelios Zimeras Dimitra Iliopoulou Dionysios-Dimitrios Koutsouris Editors mHealth Ecosystems and Social Networks in Healthcare Editors Athina A. Lazakidou Stelios Zimeras University of Peloponnese Department of Mathematics Tripoli , Greece University of the Aegean Karlovassi , Samos , Greece Dimitra Iliopoulou Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Dionysios-Dimitrios Koutsouris National Technical University of Athens School of Electrical & Computer Zografou, Athens , Greece Engineering National Technical University of Athens Zografou, Athens , Greece ISSN 1934-3221 ISSN 1934-3213 (electronic) Annals of Information Systems ISBN 978-3-319-23340-6 ISBN 978-3-319-23341-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23341-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015950841 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 T his work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper S pringer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Pref ace T his book covers cutting-edge research topics of utmost real-world importance in the specifi c domain of Mobile Health Ecosystems and Social Networks and presents studies from leading researchers and practitioners in these fi elds. The ecosystems enable healthcare and social assistance to be transformed and give more power to people regarding their health. Mobile Health (mHealth) refers to practice of offering health services and health- related information using mobile devices such as phones, tablets, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and wireless infrastructure. This fast-emerging subdomain of digital health technology has far-reaching implications for the entire healthcare ecosystem. F or society as a whole, a healthier citizenry reduces pressure on overburdened hospitals, clinics, and medical professionals. It also reduces inequalities based on gender, income, or geography, and it means that a greater proportion of the popula- tion can be employed, which increases gross domestic product, generates higher incomes for citizens, and increases tax revenues. This lowers demand for the ser- vices provided through public safety nets, charities, and nongovernmental organiza- tions. In short, an effective, accessible healthcare system is a prerequisite for economic growth and has clear benefi ts across society. E cosystems of suppliers are emerging to share the risks and the potential bene- fi ts. Such ecosystems of suppliers also emerge because complex licensing and regu- latory structures may make it challenging or even impossible for technology vendors to deliver a complete mHealth solution themselves. This means there are lots of different players, with different fi nancial interests in business plans for mHealth, and the fl ows between them vary signifi cantly from market to market and from application to application. Mobile health technology will emerge as a key factor in affecting a fundamental transition of healthcare from a physician-centric, reactive approach to person- centric, proactive and preventive model. And there is an urgent need to educate vari- ous stakeholders of healthcare ecosystem from physicians and patients to v vi Preface organizations and governments to adapt to this disruptive paradigm shift. Making an ecosystem grow in mHealth is a real opportunity to offer better quality healthcare at a lower cost. The fundamental principle of ecosystems is simple: they enhance the participation of all health agents, and also those in the area of well-being and social healthcare in a specifi c geographic area. These stakeholders reach agreements with other collaborating partners to set up mHealth solutions and thereby face the chal- lenges of assistance. Social networks allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks online. A social structure made of nodes that are generally individuals or organizations. A social network represents relationships between people, groups, organizations, animals, computers, and other information-/ knowledge- processing entities. The social network allows social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life con- nections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profi le), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social net- work services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. The social network became a way of promoting and conveying ideas, information, and tools between people with common ideas, common goals, and common interests. S ocial networks hold considerable potential value for healthcare organizations because they can be used to reach aggregate information and leverage collaboration. As more patients use social networks to track their health conditions and care, industry organizations have an opportunity to interact with the members of these online communities and to leverage “real-world” data sets to inform new treatments and care pathways. While traditionally social network analysis has had a strong synergy with health- care models, there is still a clear gap between the social network mining techniques in several healthcare processes. The goal of this new book is to provide a principled approach to classifi cation using the available data in a model which combines information from the social network and the healthcare models. This book presents studies from leading researchers and practitioners focusing on the current challenges, directions, trends, and opportunities associated with healthcare delivery systems and their supporting wireless and mobile health technologies. In Part I, the covered topics include key trends in the mHealth ecosystem, adop- tion of cloud-based mHealth services, socioeconomic impact of mHealth, self- management of health and disease: citizen engagement and mHealth, and wireless-enabled remote patient monitoring solutions. I n Part II, the covered topics include social media and patient support, social media for managing chronic illness, virtual knowledge sharing and knowledge man- agement, design and evaluation of collaborative and networking applications, social network analysis of virtual community participants, web-based applications in healthcare, and new and emerging technologies. Preface vii This book is an excellent source of comprehensive knowledge and literature on the topic of mobile health ecosystems and social networks in healthcare. All of us who worked on the book hope that readers will fi nd it useful. Tripoli, Greece Athina A. Lazakidou, Ph.D. Karlovassi, Greece Stelios Zimeras, Ph.D. Athens, Greece Dimitra Iliopoulou, Ph.D. Athens, Greece Dionysios-Dimitrios Koutsouris, Ph.D. Contents Part I m-Health Ecosystems 1 Emerging mHealth Ecosystems Based on Innovative Technologies and Services ...................................................................... 3 Vassileia Costarides , Kostas Giokas , and Dionysios-Dimitrios Koutsouris 2 Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An Overview of Design Research Areas ....................................................................... 17 Amine Boulemtafes and Nadjib Badache 3 Citizen Engagement in the mHealth Ecosystem Using Mobiles and Wearable Devices.................................................... 29 Ioannis Kouris and Dionysios-Dimitrios Koutsouris 4 Innovative mHealth Ecosystems ............................................................ 39 Dimitrios Tsoromokos , Zacharias Dermatis , Filippos Gozadinos , and Athina A. Lazakidou 5 Mobile-Health Tool Use and Community Health Worker Performance in the Kenyan Context: A Comparison of Task-Technology Fit Perspectives ...................................................... 55 Maradona C. Gatara 6 Design of Wearable Health Monitoring Systems: An Overview of Techniques and Technologies ..................................... 79 Amine Boulemtafes and Nadjib Badache 7 mHealth Ecosystem Based of a Non-invasive Commercial Hemodynamic Monitoring System Used for Heart Failure Patients, as Portable Point of Care ................ 95 Petros Toumpaniaris , Kostas Giokas , and Dimitrios Koutsouris ix
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