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Greek Hospitals and Digital Health

ocservice — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 05:31:16 +0000

The 4th Athens Digital Health Meetup will take place on Wednesday, September 20, 2017, at the Athens General Hospital “GNA Gennimatas” Amfitheatre.

How ready are Greek Hospitals when it comes to eHealth? The GNA-GENNIMATAS Hospital administration and its doctors have taken on the challenge to open their doors to the eHealth Forum community and discuss their plans with us.

General Manager of GNA Gennimatas, Mr. Vassilis Kekeris will open the session. John Sarivougioukas, Computer Engineer will speak about the Digitalized Public Hospital; Dr. George Bellos, MD, Managing Director at Health Centre Koropi, Attica will analyze the “new medical wholism pattern”, and Anastasia Krithara, Post-doctoral researcher, NCSR “Demokritos” will present “Big data for precision medicine”. Finally, a representative of the DPO Academy will discuss how the GDPR law will impact hospitals.

Visit the Athens Digital Health Meetup page to stay up-to date on the programme.

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Advancing eHealth in Greece: Guide on the Greek Digital Health Ecosystem

ocservice — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 05:14:50 +0000

eHealth Forum published this Catalogue and review guide on the Greek eHealth ecosystem to accompany the Greek Delegation at eHealth Week in Malta. Find out more about delegation members’ profiles in the second part of the Catalogue; also read articles & data on the Greek health policy, strategy and digital health ecosystem presented in clear-cut infographics.

View the Catalogue, now available online and download a copy

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Bridging the gap between Turkish and Greek eHealth stakeholders

ocservice — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 05:03:18 +0000

The 1st Turkish-Greek Meetup organized by the eHealth Forum will be held in Izmir, Turkey in June 2nd, 2017. This is Izmir eHealth Meetup inaugural meeting, aiming to connect with the Turkish community of stakeholders and advocates of digital health, who will learn, debate, network and advance the adoption of eHealth in their everyday lives.

Greek companies will travel to Izmir to meet and interact with the local eHealth community.

Companies, startups, hospital managers, clinicians, universities, state officials, patients, caretakers, medical students and everyone else eager to learn more on how digital health is changing our lives and health are invited to join the Meetup at Izmir Chamber of Commerce-Izmir Ticaret Odasi.

See the Programme and participants…

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Greek delegation: the talk of the town at eHealth Week in Malta!

ocservice — Wed, 17 May 2017 04:33:29 +0000

The companies members of the GR Delegation –coordinated by the eHealth Forum– were hosted at the National Pavilion at eHealth Week 2017, held back-to-back matchmaking meetings and concluded a few promising business deals.

The Greek team delegates briefly presented their companies at the session “Advancing eHealth in Greece”, in a packed room to an enthusiastic audience. The session aimed to introduce the Greek ehealth ecosystem. Keynote speaker Tassos Tagaris, Managing Director of Greece’s IDIKA (eGovernment Center for Social Security Services) presented the national e-prescription system, a Greek success story.

eHealth Forum thanks the Greek delegation for a great team experience:

“The Greek team –both public and private companies- joined the eHealth Week in Malta to showcase the progress that Greece has made in the digital health domain in recent years. It has been an excellent opportunity to get informed on all recent developments on digital health and get connected with other companies, researchers, patient advocates, innovators from Europe but also US and Canada.”, Lina Nikolopoulou, eHealth Forum Managing Director

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Advancing eHealth in Greece at eHealth Week 2017

ocservice — Wed, 10 May 2017 04:27:04 +0000

Key stakeholders will join the Greek Pavillion during the most influential healthcare IT event in Europe, the eHealth Week in Malta 10-12 May, 2017.

eHealth Week will bring together the highest level speakers from across the globe and leading healthcare IT professionals from all 27 EU member states. The focus of this years’ conference will be on “Data for Health” and the key to personalised sustainable care and will include educational sessions covering the hottest topics in the industry: from interoperability and data exchange to blockchain in healthcare and the increasing role of social media.

Greece’s participation, according to HIMSS, is one of the most highly anticipated activities within the three day conference.

Greece’s delegation and country pavilion hosts carefully selected health transformers, entrepreneurs and stakeholders taking initiatives nationally and internationally leading the way to digital health integration and real impact in the healthcare system. Delegates from Greece will present the challenges they face and how they have found ways to overcome them to successfully integrate ICT solutions nationally in this newly evolving ehealth state system. They in turn want to learn from best-practices, create new business opportunities and partnerships with EU companies and organisations.

Find out more about the Greek delegation…

Speaking Session Advancing eHealth In Greece

On Thursday 11 May, the Managing Director of Greece’s ePrescription service IDIKA will explain the intricacies of successfully fielding over 5.5M prescriptions and 2.9M patients monthly, while ICT experts will talk about PHRs, APIs, telehealth & monetisation. Despite Greece’s continuing economic crisis, we discuss potential financial and business growth, challenges and opportunities, given its unique morphology and position in the region between Europe and the Middle East.

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Blockchain disrupting PHRs – 2nd Athens Digital Health Meetup

ocservice — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 04:07:40 +0000

Established public health realities and future trends were the subjects of the 2nd Athens Digital Health (eHealth) Meetup, held on April 19, 2017, at Athens Chamber of Commerce & Industry with 70 participants representing business, health IT, local government and other sectors.
Lately, there are concerns over the news on controversial health data access by State authorities. What would it take for our health records to be truly private, controlled by ourselves and safe from the potential manipulation of ill-willing authoritarian rulers? Can blockchain technology be a solution? Is a distributed system feasible for personal health records? eHealth Forum turned to a team of developers from NTUA and asked them whether it can be done.
With a view towards the future, George Efthymiou from the medical_io team* presented their ambitious plan to deliver a distributed PHR system that will provide real data privacy. Medical uses blockchain technology & cryptographic processes to provide a unique infrastructure to patients’ medical records.
On the reality side, Athina Triantafillidi, IT Director at IDIKA presented “The Greek ePrescription System: An eHealth suite for the support of Primary Health Care”; explained the developments behind the eGovernment Organisation for Social Security and what led them to be considered one of the leading European examples in implementing a digital reference for all those living in Greece.
Finally, the eHealth Forum team presented the participants and the planned actions of the Greek delegation and Pavilion at the largest EU event, the eHealth Week to be held in Malta on 10-12 May 2017.

*medical-io team: George Efthymiou, Sotiria Kalivi, Fotis Papastergiou, Christos Martinis, Nikos Drakopoulos

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1st Athens Digital Health Meetup

ocservice — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:20:41 +0000

With 2017 eHealth Forum events coming up in October (from the 19th to the 22nd), the eHealth Forum has launched since last February, a series of Meetups to boost interaction and facilitate information exchange between relevant stakeholders, health care professionals, local authorities and the public.
In the first successful Athens Digital Health (eHealth) Meetup organised at Athens Chamber of Commerce, on February 15th, 84 people participated. The discussion was held around digital health applications in our daily life as well as Greece’s position in this dynamic market. Also, eHealth Forum’s new plans and strategy for 2017 were presented by Lina Nikolopoulou, Managing Director of eHealth Forum.

At this 1st Athens Digital Health Meetup, two aspects of digital health were presented by speakers Haralampos Karanikas, PhD, Consultant, eHealth Researcher at the Athens Medical Society, attempted to answer the question “Does Greece have an eHealth strategy plan?”; and Thanos Stavropoulos, Postdoc Researcher at CERTH-ITI & CEO of Carealia talked about “The Impact of Digital Health on Our Everyday Lives” and presented an application for monitoring & data analytics from dementia patients developed by Carealia.

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