Project DITIS, University of Cyprus

February 23 2006 - As part of the dissemination work package of project DITIS-2 funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, a seminar on eHealth in Cyprus is organized featuring the latest results in DITIS as well as another telemedicine application. See invitation, press release and event program.

September 2006 - eTen Market Validation Project LINKCARE Starts and DITIS is part of it.

April 28 2005 - The forthcoming wide availability of high bandwidth public wireless networks will give rise to new mobile health care services. Towards this direction, the HealthService24 Continuous Mobile Services for Healthcare aims at realizing the mobile health dream by an integrated mobile health service supporting patient as well as health care professional mobility.

DITIS software will be utilized and adapted to allow for clinical trials with cardiac patients in Cyprus, in collaboration with LITO Polyclinic. Stay tuned for news ragarding this new project as they develop. For more information about HealthService24, visit www.healthservice24.com.

HealthService24 is an eTen market validation project.

March 25, 2005 - DITIS was presented at the EFMI Special Topics Conference in Athens, Greece. The conference was on "Health and Medical Informatics Applications - Educational Aspects".

November 3rd, 2004 - A lecture/demo of DITIS in Greek was given on November 3rd as part of the lecture series at the Zinonion Open University in Larnaca. More details can be found under publications.

September 2004 - See the progress we made on DITIS II in the executive summary that is available here. Also find more details about overall analysis and implementation of the desktop component, web component, mobile component, database and security.

December 2003 - DITIS-2 was selected among the programs to be funded by the research promotion foundation in Cyprus for an 18 month period starting in the summer of 2004. The grant will be used to fund part of the development already under way for expansion of DITIS into phase two, a.k.a. DITIS II, implementing the necessary features that will make DITIS a product that can be promoted for commercial use. The main partners in this effort include the University of Cyprus, PASYKAF, CYTA, and ten20.

November 2003 - DITIS was presented along with selected local health telematics applications during the conference on Electronic Health Records and Telemedicine: Implications for Better Clinical Practice at the Holiday Inn in Nicosia last November.

DITIS was ranked seventh among over eighty products at the World Summit Award (WSA) Competition!!

In October 2003, Project DITIS - Network for Medical Collaboration - was submitted to the World Summit Award (WSA) competition as the best e-content and creativity example in the Category of e-Health from Cyprus. The World Summit Award (WSA) is a three year global project, held within the framework and in cooperation with the WSIS. It aims to go beyond the general issues of infrastructure development or network access and to recognize, select and promote the world´s best e-content and innovative applications.

Among many issues to be addressed by the United Nations´ first World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), with its two phases in Geneva, December 2003 and Tunis, December 2005, there is also the one of concrete benefits to citizens as users of the new technologies. A content gap is widening where quality contents and applications remain unknown or inaccessible to most citizens.

A Research Grant has been offered by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, to the University of Cyprus for its Virtual Collaborative Health-Care Teams for homecare of chronic patients project. The announcement of the research grant, the first of its kind in Cyprus and the region, was made during a press conference held on Friday June 6th, 2003, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. See full press release (also in Greek)..

Article of DITIS in Koinotita magazine (Dec 2003)

DITIS in the spotlight .. A high level conference on eHealth was held on the 22nd and 23rd May 2003 in Brussels. eHealth 2003 was organized by the Commission in collaboration with the Greek Presidency and included a two-day exhibition of 30 eHealth applications, selected among over 180 applicants Europe-wide, and an award ceremony for the first eEurope Awards: the eEurope Awards in eHealth. DITIS was one of the finalists for these awards, see certificate, marking an important milestone for the research team at the University of Cyprus(UCY), the Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (PASYKAF), the organizations that supported the DITIS effort, and Cyprus in general. See full press release (also in Greek). Press Clipping.

DITIS to be presented at the pan European Ministerial Conference eHealth 2003, Press Release May 18 2003 in the Cypriot press (Greek version).

Early May 2003: The Cyprus Telecommunication Authority (CYTA) renewed its infrastructure support for DITIS. This enables the continuation of efforts for Pan Cyprian coverage and the exchange of data with the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre, enabling the Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends (PASYKAF) to use DITIS for its home-care services Cyprus-wide. It also allows for further research and development into new networking technologies as part of DITIS phase II.