Plenary Lecture
eHealth Record vs Personal Privacy: Benefits and Concerns
Professor Dimitrios Xanthidis
Department of Compuer Science
Imam University
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
E-mail: xanthidisdim@ccis.imamu.edu.sa
Abstract: There is a conflict identified between the utilization of the information technology in developing an online database system to keep an electronic health record of patients’ and the need to protect the individual’s personal data. A total of 301 individuals participated in this study from all walks of life and various professions, including medical practitioners, nurses, technical experts, patients and academics. The majority of the local population is in favor of the plan in general but many ask for more information and a lot of parameters must be studied before the initiation of the plan to avoid conflict with various groups of people opposing the plan mainly due to lack of information on its details.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dr. Dimitrios Xanthidis holds a Phd degree in electronic information sciences in 2008 from UCL (University College London) after receiving his M.Sc. in Information Systems from Hawaii Pacific University in 1996 and his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the same institution in 1994. His main areas of interest are in relational databases, object-oriented analysis and design, object-oriented programming, algorithms as to Computer Science and eSociety, eHealth, eGovernment, Social Media, eCommerce, eLearning and Knowledge Economy as to Information Sciences. From 1996 to 1998 he headed the Pythagoras Institute department of Computer Programming, from 1998 to 2001 he headed XINI Institute department of Computing, from 2002 to 2009 he headed DEI College and New York College departments of Computer Science and from 2011 till now he is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Imam University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Dimitrios Xanthidis has a chapter in one book and more than 20 published papers in international conference proceedings and scientific journals. He is a member of the academic board of the Computer and Information Sciences College at Imam University, member of the Graduation Project Committee, member of the scientific committee of a few conferences and member of the research team in two research organizations.