Catherine E. Chronaki
Research Interests
- disease management services for health and wellness in aging,
- emergency medical systems and disaster medicine
- guideline-driven telemonitoring,
- risk management of e/mHealth,
- EHR systems to support epidemiological research and health policy,
- socio-economic aspects of eHealth technologies and services,
- eHealth interoperability standards
Awards
- The abstract “Education in Trauma Management in the PHTLS Center of Crete/ Εκπαίδευση στην Διαχείριση Τραύματος στο Κέντρο PHTLS στην Κρήτη” by Ε Χρονάκης, Κ Κομπολάκη, Ν Δασκαλάκης, Κ Καρτσώνης, Γ Σωτηρόπουλος, Ε Ματθαιάκη, Ε Μπρέζας, Ε Λαζανάκη, Ν Γιαννακουδάκης, K. Χρονάκη, Δ. Βουρβαχάκης, Ι. Ανδρουλάκης, received commendation by the Athens Medical Society as the best applied research work presented in the 37o Panhellenic Medical Congress, Αthens, May 2011
- The Poster “Satellite-enabled eHealth Applications in Disaster Management: Experience from a Readiness Exercise” by CE Chronaki, V Kontoyiannis, E Charalambus, G Vrouchos, A. Manantopoulos, D Vourvahakis, received the best poster award at the Computers in Cardiology 2008 (CiC 2008) Conference, Sept 2008.
- The Regional Health Information Network of Crete “HYGEIAnet” was selected a finalist (among more than 180 contenders) at the ministerial conference and exhibition eHealth 2003, that took place in Brussels on May 2003 and received an honourary mention (the second prize in the Regional Health Information networks category).
- The Poster “ECG in Your Hands: A Multi-Vendor ECG Viewer for Personal Digital Assistants” by F. Chiarugi, M. Spanakis, PJ. Lees, C. Chronaki, M. Tsiknakis and SC Orphanoudakis received the best poster award at the Computers in Cardiology 2003 (CiC 2003) Conference, Sept 2003.
- Tuition Scholarship 1988-89, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
- Dean’s List 1989, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
- Graduate Fellowship 1989-1991, University of Rochester, USA
Participation in Research Projects
Notable research and technological development projects that Mrs Chronaki was a major contributor or project manager (scientific responsible) after 2000, are:
- POSEIDON, Earthquake followed by Tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea, DG ECHO 070401/2009/534360/SUB/A3, 2009-2011 (Scientific Responsible FORTH, Leader Task E: ICT applications, Standards and interoperability).
- iCARDEA, An Intelligent Platform for Personalized Remote Monitoring of the Cardiac Patients with Electronic Implant Device, FP7-248240, 2009-2013 (Project Manager FORTH-ICS, Leader: WP6 Interoperability layer, Guideline-driven integration of EHR, PHR, and telemonitoring reports and alerts for better outcomes).
- SAFE, Satellites for Epidemiology and Health Early Warning, ESA Tender, 2006-2007 (Project Manager for FORTH-ICS, Organization of SAFE exercise in Crete, with participation of 20 organizations and 300 volunteers, investigating search and rescue and epidemiology scenarios in a Power plant and a hotel, as well as the outbreak of a epidemic in a refugee camp.)
- eHealth Consumer Trends Survey, DG Sanco 2004134, 2005-2008, (Project Manager at FORTH, responsible for the Greek part of the survey that took place in 7 EU countries, two waves 2005-2007)
- HEALTHWARE, Standard and Interoperable satellite solution to deploy Healthcare services over wide areas, FP6-IP-SIP4-CT-2004-516171, 2004-2006, (Focus on remote medical education in Emergency care, Technical Responsible 2004-2005 for FORTH-ICS).
- TWISTER, Terrestrial Wireless Infrastructure integrated with Satellite Telecommunications for E-Rural applications, 2004 – 2007. (Technical Responsible/ Deputy Project Manager for FORTH-ICS, connected via wireless services or satellite remote medical offices with the primary care center in Kandanos and Charakas and provided comprehensive medical education and EHR services).
- eHealth network at the PHC of Santorini linking community offices in Anafi, Thirasia, Folegandros, Sikinos using eHealth records and medical collaboration services, 2003-2004 (Project Manager, FORTH-ICS)
- OpenECG, Standards and Interoperability in Digital Electrocardiography, IST 2001-377011 2002-2004 (EC Project Coordinator, created an online community with more than 1000 members in 65 countries, to promote open standards for electrocardiographs).
- EMISPHER, Euro-Mediterranean Internet-Satellite Platform for Health, Medical Education and Research, EuMEDIS programme, 2001-2004, (Technical Responsible for FORTH-ICS).
- CORAS, A platform for risk analysis of security critical systems, IST-2000-25031, 2001-2003, (major contributor Risk management for a telecardiology application).
- PICNIC, Professionals and citizens network for integrated care, IST-1999-10345, 2000-2003, (major contributor: integrated medical collaboration service/ Pilot telecardiology application for MI).
Short CV
Catherine Chronaki (Dipl Eng1988, MSc 90,91) joined FORTH-ICS in 1992, to engage in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system for the retrieval of medical images by content. Since then she has played a key role within National and European eHealth projects, addressing the wider scope of eHealth: health Information Infrastructures employing interoperability standards for integrated Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and eHealth services using medical devices such as ECGs (Coordinator OpenECG: www.openecg.net) and remote monitoring of cardiac implants, (b) risk assessment and consumer adoption of eHealth services, (c) extending EHRs to support disease surveillance and emergency services, (d) eHealth applications for disaster & emergency management (civil protection) based on hybrid satellite-WiFi and mobile networks. She is currently managing for FORTH, iCARDEA a project addressing integration of telemonitoring of CIED patients with EHRs, PHRs on the basis of clinical guidelines. Catherine is aspired by need to adopt interoperability standards that advance comprehensive, consistent, trusted, safe, sustainable eHealth services for all citizens. Author of 80+ papers, she serves as Associate Editor IEEE Transactions for IT in Biomedicine, and has served the program committee of major eHealth conferences as annual Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (theme AE since 2006-), MedInfo, MIE, IHIC, etc. Catherine sits on the HL7-Hellas Board, and the HL7 International Board (as Affiliate Director), as well as on the eHealth Governance Initiative Steering Committee representing HL7 International.
