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Biographical notes:Athina Lazakidou works at the University of Piraeus,Greece,as a teaching assistant and at the Hellenic Army Academy&Hellenic Naval Academy,Greece,as a visiting lecturer in informatics.She received her BSc in Computer Science from the Athens University of Economics and Business(Greece)in 1996.In 2000,she received her PhD in Medical Informatics from the Department of Medical Informatics,University Hospital Benjamin Franklin at the Free University of Berlin,Germany.She is also an internationally known expert in the field of computer applications in healthcare and biomedicine,with seven books and numerous papers to her credit.She was also Editor of the Handbook of Research on Informatics in Healthcare and Biomedicine and of the upcoming Handbook of Research on Distributed Medical Informatics and E-Health,which will be published in 2008.