University of Groningen An e-health driven national healthcare ecosystem Schiza, Eirini

University of Groningen

An e-health driven national healthcare ecosystem

Schiza, Eirini

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June 2018 ISBN: 978-94-034-0605-3 (ISBN ebook: 978-94-034-0604-6)

An eHealth Driven National Healthcare

Ecosystem

PhD thesis

to obtain the degree of PhD at the

University of Groningen

on the authority of the

Rector Magnificus Prof. E. Sterken

and in accordance with

the decision by the College of Deans.

This thesis will be defended in public on

Friday 22 June 2018 at 11.00 hours

by

Eirini Schiza

born on 04 April 1988

Supervisors

Prof. N. Petkov

Prof. C.S. Pattichis

Assessment committee

Prof. M. Aiello

Prof. J. Mantas

The research work presented in this thesis was carried out at the Intelligent Systems Group of the Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Groningen and the eHealth Laboratory of the Com-puter Science Department of the University of Cyprus. It has been funded by the University of Groningen, the University of Cyprus, the Republic of Cyprus through the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, e-Enerca, FI-STAR and Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in Telecom(CEF-TC-2015-2-eHealth & CEF-TC-2017-1-EESSI) projects through the European Union.

Front cover: Brendan Dawes’s digital portraits visualise data drawn from the online chatter of British city-dwellers. For this cover Liverpool city was chosen which represents time spirals out from the centre, covering three days. The background represents the Idalion Bronze Tablet which was discovered in Cyprus.

ISBN: 978-94-034-0605-3 (printed version) ISBN: 978-94-034-0604-6 (digital version)