From Care to Prevention

A Holistic View for Future e-m/Health ICT Services

Dimitri Konstantas

University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Dimitri.Konstantas@unige.ch

Abstract: ICT based services and products are today a major element in the support of health care: e-heath and m-

health are offering tools that can monitor patients 24h per day, provide valuable information to care

personnel and trigger the dispatching of assistance. However, technology itself is not enough: Cure without

prevention will not sustainably solve the health care problems of the next 40 years. New innovative ICT

based services are needed, integrating technology and life style and social models helping educate the

(future) patients to acquire healthy habits and allowing them from one side to postpone for several years the

appearance of health problems and from the other side how to be as much as possible self supported in

coping with their health problems.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Dimitri Konstantas is Professor and Vice-Dean at

the Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, and

member of the Institute of Services Sciences. He

holds a Phd in Informatics from the University of

Geneva, a MSc in Computer Sciences from the

University of Toronto and a MSc in Electronic

Engineering from the National Technical University

of Athens. He was previously professor and Chair of

the APS group at the University of Twente, The

Netherlands and Research assistant at the Institute of

Computer Sciences, FORTH, Crete, Greece. Since

1985, prof. Konstantas, is active in multidisciplinary

research in the areas of Object Oriented systems,

agent technologies, Multimedia applications and e-

commerce services. Since 2002 his main research

areas are mobile and wireless multimedia services

and applications, with special interest in mobile

health and location based services. He has more than

200 publications in international conferences,

journals, books and book chapters and a long

participation and leadership in European and

national projects. Prof. Konstantas is serving as

consultant and scientific expert for several

international companies and governments.

Konstantas D.

From Care to PreventionA Holistic View for Future e-m/Health ICT Services.

DOI: 10.5220/0004462700070007

In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design (BMSD 2012), page 7

ISBN: 978-989-8565-26-6