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The PrescIT Knowledge Graph: Supporting ePrescription to prevent Adverse Drug Reactions Passed

Thursday May 25, 2023 10:45 - 11:00 G2

Lecturers: Achilleas Chytas, Haralampos Karanikas, Pantelis Natsiavas

Track: MIE: Decision support

Language

English

Seminar type

On site only

Level of knowledge

Advanced

Conference

MIE

Authors

Achilleas Chytas, Vlasios K. Dimitriadis, Giorgos Giannios, Margarita Grammatikopoulou, George Nikolaidis, Jenny Pliatsika, Martha Zachariadou, Haralampos Karanikas, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Pantelis Natsiavas

Lecturers

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Achilleas Chytas Lecturer

Data scientist
Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas

BSc and MSc in computer engineering and MSc in Medical Informatics. 10 years experience in research projects in the Biomedical field. Areas of interest are Signal Processing, Data analysis, and Ontology Engineering.

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Haralampos Karanikas Lecturer

Assistant Professor (Medical Informatics and eHealth systems) at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics
University of Thessaly

Dr. Haralampos Karanikas is an Assistant Professor (Medical Informatics and eHealth systems) at the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly.

Additional current positions:
• General Secretary of the Greek Society of eHealth Services and Education (EEMEPY).
• Member of the National Committee for the implementation of protocols and monitoring of pharmaceutical expenditure, under the authority of the Ministry of Health.
• eHealth consultant in Athens Medical Society, member of the team that develops the prescription protocols integrated in the Greek national electronic prescription system.

He is actively involved in Health Information Management as a focal research area. His research interests include eHealth, Patient Registries, Medical Prescription Protocols, Electronic Health Records, Telehealth Ontology construction, data/text mining, and health big data.
He has been involved in many research projects. For two and a half years he was special IT advisor of the General Secretary, Ministry of Health, scientific responsible for the implementation of ESY.net (National health BI system), member of the Greek DRGs implementation team and member of the Central Committee of the Ministry to monitor the IT systems of the NHS. From March 2012 till April 2013 Haralampos Karanikas was board member of the Greek Health Procurement Committee (E.P.Y.), an independent agency with administrative and financial autonomy, reporting directly to the Minister of Health. E.P.Y. is responsible for strategic and operational planning of the procurement system in the Health Sector. He was a member of PARENT (Cross Border Patient Registries Initiatives) and EUnetHTA (European Network of Health Technology Assessment) EU initiatives. Haralampos Karanikas holds a PhD in the field of Temporal Text Mining at University of Manchester on health data management.

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Pantelis Natsiavas Lecturer

Researcher
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)

I am a researcher at the Institute of Applied Biosciences, heading the eHealth Lab. I am an Engineer by background, with experience in Software Engineering both in industry and research. My personal research interest has to do with the use of computational approaches to support drug safety.