Medical Informatics Education & Research in Greece

Abstract

Greece is a valuable contributor in the European medical informatics arena, and has the potential to offer more as long as the barriers of research and innovation fragmentation are addressed and alleviated.

Digital Health in Physicians' and Pharmacists' Office: A Comparative Study of e-Prescription Systems' Architecture and Digital Security in Eight Countries

“…In terms of the communication protocol, most of the systems are using the HL7 protocol to encode and decode e-Prescription information between the involved parties (Chen et al, 2016 ; Chouvarda and Maglaveras, 2015 ; Eichwald, 2014 ; Goundrey-Smith, 2013 ; Pereira et al, 2018 ; Saripalle et al, 2019 ). For encryption, most systems use standard encryption methods such as public key infrastructure such as in Australia and Canada (Canadian Pharmacists Association, 2009 ; Henderson et al, 2015 ), or other standard authentication algorithms.…”

Should Degree Programs in Biomedical and Health Informatics be Dedicated or Integrated?

“…Most of the selected and relevant papers reported on one or several bachelor or master programs at one university. There were reports of BMHI programs of the University of Victoria, Canada [ 22 , 23 , 30 , 31 ], of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece [ 24 ], of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA [ 25 ], of the Oregon Health & Science University at Portland, USA [ 28 ], of the Walter Sisulu University at Mthatha, South Africa [ 32 ], and of Charles University at Prague, Czech Republic [ 35 , 36 ]. All programs were dedicated degree programs.…”